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DropBox Expands Rewards, Great for Customers

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I've been using Dropbox for many months, for easiest file sharing:  between my desktop Mac and my laptop Mac; with my brother a region away, with our daughter a continent away, and increasingly as iDisk is going away with iCloud implementation. Like many cloud applications, dropbox has a "free" level and also rewards people who bring others to the application.  Dropbox came with 2 GB free, plus gave users 250 MB added for every person who joined Dropbox at their initiation, to a maximum of 8 GB.   Not long ago, I noticed that my free space had jumped a GB or two, and finally found out why.  Dropbox upped its referral reward to 500 MB and the upper limit for free space from 8 to 16 GB.   dropbox-ups-its-free-storage-referral-limit. And they made this change retroactive , so my modest number of referral awards had doubled.  Plus, according to the blog above, the person who joined Dropbox at my initiation also received the 500 GB ...