Yeah, sorry if that came off as snarky; I appreciate the suggestion.
I guess I can understand the cost-cutting mentality that drives Google, AWS, etc. to limit these kinds of offers to "new customers" only. Just remember to consider what kind of incentives you're creating. By effectively punishing developers for being early adopters/experimenters, you're making them wary of signing up early for whatever new and interesting stuff you announce in the future.
It's an interesting problem - the issue is that our trials are both money & time based ($300 for 60 days). So technically you've "used" your trial even if you do nothing for 2 months.
We do appreciate the feedback and are looking hard at the right next way to solve this. If it wasn't for bitcoin miners and/or bot nets, this would all be a lot easier :(
Ah, interesting -- I thought it was for a year. Then I don't feel like I'm missing out quite so much, because I would have a hard time spending that much credit in 2 months anyway :)
I guess I can understand the cost-cutting mentality that drives Google, AWS, etc. to limit these kinds of offers to "new customers" only. Just remember to consider what kind of incentives you're creating. By effectively punishing developers for being early adopters/experimenters, you're making them wary of signing up early for whatever new and interesting stuff you announce in the future.