I joined Bluemountain.com a couple of years ago, and it was a site that offered more than the usual in the way of ecards. They had a section where people could write poetry, and the winning entries into the poetry competitions were used for ecards. What I liked about this site was that you ... Read review
Advantages: A Site that is reliable. Disadvantages: They have lost a lot of their appeal.
I joined Bluemountain.com a couple of years ago, and it was a site that offered more than the usual in the way of ecards. They had a section where people could write poetry, and the winning entries into the poetry competitions were used for ecards. What I liked about this site was that you could always find a poem to suit every occasion, and just browse through so many poems with wonderful backgrounds, add music that you liked, and send them to people ... ...extraordinary experience, and many of the poets that contributed to the site were extremely skilled in wordsmanship, and I admired this section of the site very much.
WHAT IS BLUE MOUNTAIN.COM
The site is primarily a site where you can send greetings in the way of e-cards and postcards. When you arrive on the site, you are greeted by different categories, i.e. Birthdays, Expressions, Encouragement, Support, in fact every ... more
I joined Bluemountain.com a couple of years ago, and it was a site that offered more than the usual in the way of ecards. They had a section where people could write poetry, and the winning entries into the poetry competitions were used for ecards. What I liked about this site was that you could always find a poem to suit every occasion, and just browse through so many poems with wonderful backgrounds, add music that you liked, and send them to people that mattered to you.
It was an extraordinary experience, and many of the poets that contributed to the site were extremely skilled in wordsmanship, and I admired this section of the site very much.
WHAT IS BLUE MOUNTAIN.COM
The site is primarily a site where you can send greetings in the way of e-cards and postcards. When you arrive on the site, you are greeted by different categories, i.e. Birthdays, Expressions, Encouragement, Support, in fact every variety of card that you could wish to send. The site offers one month free trial so that you can give the site a try and see if you want to become a paying member.
Unfortunately, here is where they made their big mistake because in the old days of the site, membership was free, and they offered more to the public than they do now.
In order to become a member, you have to fill out a form and give your credit card details. I believe that this is wrong, and that they are not in fact giving you that one month free. What they are offering you is a subscription and at the end of that month, your card will be debited.
HOW THE SITE COMPARES WITH OTHERS.
If you take a look at all the ecard sites on the net, then there are better ones than Bluemountain.com. They used to be the best. I saved them to favourites because of the wonderful choice of poetry that they had, and then one day, they got too big, too uncaring, and developed a site that offers limited cards compared with other sites, less choice than free sites, and asked for a fee.
I now use greetings.com as an alternative because Bluemountain forgot about the individuality of their site and opted to give customers less for their money. I have cancelled my account with them because I do not believe that what I pay for now is as good as the free service I enjoyed and which tempted me in the first place.
I do like the fact that you can personalise greetings. I like that you can add music to greetings and that some of them are animated, although it is disappointing to note that the quality of what they offer has diminished.
It will be interesting to see where ecards go from now on, and certainly as far as BlueMountain goes, they have had one subscription from me and will not get another.
LAYOUT AND DESIGN
The layout of the site is a little higgledy piggledy and it takes a little while to find what you are looking for. When you do find it, you are reminded that you cannot send greetings before becoming a member.
CONTENT OF THE SITE
There are a fair proportion of good messages that you can send, but this site was outstanding in the past, and now comes under the description of mundane compared with other sites.
COST £19 for a years membership which I feel is excessive considering that what they offer you is not as good as the service they offered when they were a free site.
SEARCHING THE SITE
I have no complaints about searching the site, but after my initial shock at losing the poetry section, I have not really found a great deal of use for the site.
OVERALL IMPRESSION
I am disappointed with the site, in that people are not offered a no obligation one month free trial. The moment you give your credit card details, you are obliged to pay, and the only way out of it is to send endless emails to the site. I wrote and told them how disappointed I was with the site in general and it took about three weeks for me to get a reply. When I did, it had not cancelled my membership, but expressed that they were disappointed that I had decided to cancel and asked if I could be pursuaded to stay with the site.
The problem here is that time is of the essence when you have given your credit card details, and in the time it took to reply, your money is paid for membership and instead of a refund, they just tell you that your account is valid up until such and such a date.
I shall seek out another site which offers what Bluemountain used to offer. It is a shame when websites get so big that they forget their own uniqueness and sink into oblivion with sites of a mediocre level.
Advantages: simple to use, efficient, saves u buying and posting a card, see op! Disadvantages: none, except makes u want to send loads of cards
...guys i'm sorry to say Bluemountain.com is not free anymore and the cheeky website makers now charge you to send e-cards. so this opinion does not hold!
sorry kopal
Come on and send me an e-card... its free!
I first discovered bluemountain about 3 years a go, when my friend sent me my first animated e- card. This was a cute card with a simple message. The purpose? Just to say Hi!
I thought this was a wonderful idea at the time and still do, instead ... ...you can send an animated-card to a person, with a picture, which maybe animated, a short greeting and an optional message from yourself.
An e-card is extremely simple to send. First you got to the website, www.bluemountain.com, you then choose the category of your card, e.g. birthday, congrats, invitation, hello, thank you etc… Once you have you have made your choice you will be presented with a new window displaying a selection of different ...
Kopal 20.09.2001 (24.04.2002)
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Advantages: Great selection if you become a member, Reasonably good selection of Free Cards, Instant delivery Disadvantages: In recent times they have removed Birthday & Anniversary etc cards from the Free Cards section
Blue Mountain is a company specialized in Greeting Cards and Gifts.
They are based in the U.S. and all operations are web based so using their services from any part of the world is not a problem at all.
Blue Mountain offers a staggering range of cards and all of these cards are sent electronically i.e. by email and thus are referred to as E-Cards.
If you want full access to all their cards you will need to become a paid member. This involves ... ...The cost of one year’s subscription is US$11.95. Once you have become a member you are provided one months free membership in advance of the one year. During this time you can send out as many cards as you wish and if you are not satisfied in any way you can cancel your membership and a full refund will be made.
Alternatively Blue Mountain also allows you the opportunity to send out free cards and this can be done by anyone, irrespective if ...
vinodgm 22.04.2002
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Happy Puppetry Day! So you didn't know? Shame on you! You obviously haven't been reading Bluemountain.com's list of dates to remember with an e-card recently... The obvious choice for a seasonal card at the moment is of course Easter, but depending on your country, religion, hobbies and whether or not your tax-return's due, you could be celebrating World Grit's Day, Earth Day or (some people's personal favourite! ) Hug an Australian Day, not to mention ... ...to the local taxman. You may now have got the idea about Bluemountain - it has e-cards for every possible occasion and a whole load more besides. Animated cards, voice cards, poems and interactive ones, they're all here and waiting for you to send, free-of-charge to just about anyone you've ever met and have an email address for. Whatever country, whatever language, the e-card you've been looking for is likely to be waiting somewhere in the library ...
lily7star 21.04.2001
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Advantages: lots and lots of cards too many Disadvantages: not as nice as the real thing
Ever had that dreadful sinking feeling that you forgot your best buddy or cyber buddy’s birthday or special occasion?
No time to dash to the shops and post one, well here’s a site that can save your legs and a stamp too.
Not only is it packed with cards and more for every occasion it’s that wonderful magic word that we all love* FREE *
When I say every occasion, take this, as literally as some even I have never heard of myself!
... ...too, you do however need to sign up to access the cards and features but this is painless and you gain a free excite web mail address complete with voice mail and the facility to add video to your greetings cards…aggghh, too scary by far!
One of the excellent features here is the Print centre, host of FREE, goodies for your own use. But of course you will need a printer ….!
These include :
T-Shirt designs
Kid ‘s stuff – ...
broksababe 02.04.2001
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~ ~ Did you know it was “National Take A Plant For A Walk” day on the 29th July?
Or “National Parent’s” day on the same date, with “Father’s In-Law” day on the 30th July?
I thought not!!
To be honest, neither did I, at least until I came across this site called www.bluemountain.com, while trawling through some sites recommended in a wee bargain book I picked up in my local bookstore called “The ... ...The idea behind this site is very simple.
People (myself included) are forever forgetting to send their friends and relatives cards on important dates like birthdays, anniversaries, and worst off all, at Christmas. Isn’t it just an awful feeling when you get a card at Christmas time from someone you have forgotten all about, with no time left to rectify the error?
Well now this need never happen to you again.
At least not as long as you ...
the_mad_cabbie 24.07.2001
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