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Author Topic: Offers (this week only) on WinRAR and Wintasks 5 Pro  (Read 5816 times)

Carol Haynes

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Offers (this week only) on WinRAR and Wintasks 5 Pro
« on: January 25, 2006, 01:45 PM »
WinRAR at $23.20 (= 20% discount) here http://www.win-rar.com/uniblue.html

WinTasks 5 Pro at $29.95 (= 40% discount) here http://www.digitalriver.com/promo=105057 (don't forget to uncheck the optional extra on the DR form)

Enjoy

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Re: Offers (this week only) on WinRAR and Wintasks 5 Pro
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2006, 01:49 PM »
Hm, is that the official winrar site? I've always used http://rarlabs.com . I'm a bit suspicious :)
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Re: Offers (this week only) on WinRAR and Wintasks 5 Pro
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2006, 01:53 PM »
It is a link to the ShareIt webstore - I wouldn't have thought ShareIt would be interested if it wasn't genuine.

The links came from UniBlue (formerly LI Utilities) that produce WinTasks Pro and they seem like a good bunch. Presumably UniBlue are acting as a distributor for RARLabs these days.

Note the original email offer from UniBlue was distributed by DigitalRiver.
« Last Edit: January 25, 2006, 05:02 PM by Carol Haynes »

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Re: Offers (this week only) on WinRAR and Wintasks 5 Pro
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2006, 04:26 PM »
Thanks, carol!

I find it pays to be a bit paranoid these days, with all those phishing sites etc.
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Re: Offers (this week only) on WinRAR and Wintasks 5 Pro
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2006, 05:38 PM »
At the very bottom of the rarlabs.com page:

win.rar GmbH - the official publisher for RARLAB products - handles all support, marketing and sales related to WinRAR and www.rarlab.com.

which is the win-rar.com site :Thmbsup:.

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Re: Offers (this week only) on WinRAR and Wintasks 5 Pro
« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2006, 06:03 PM »
winrar/rarlabs/win-rar seems to have several of theses sites like this, and they are legit. not sure why.

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Re: Offers (this week only) on WinRAR and Wintasks 5 Pro
« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2006, 06:40 PM »
The odd thing is they seem to be registered under different names in different countries ??

Using various WHOIS type services these are  the details - anyone know what is going on?

www.win-rar.com:

Registrant Name: Burak Canboy
Registrant Address: Lange Reihe 40
Registrant City: Bremen
Registrant Postal Code: 28219
Registrant Country: DE

www.rarlabs.com:

owner-name: Eugene Roshal
owner-address: Gagarina 21-15
owner-address: 454010
owner-address: Chelyabinsk
owner-address: Russia

www.winrar.com:

Sander & Associates
280-15,14/8,2F,Samsundong-1ga,
Seongbuk-gu,
Seoul 136-041
KR

I can't get the winrar.com address to work - it doesn't seem to be registered with a DNS server though the domain name is currently active.
« Last Edit: January 25, 2006, 06:44 PM by Carol Haynes »

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Re: Offers (this week only) on WinRAR and Wintasks 5 Pro
« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2006, 06:53 PM »
i think it's just a slightly unusual (invisible) affiliate program.
i.e. they have allowed several different entities to be their "affiliate" in different countries - in charge of adverising and sales in that region.