Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to try a free trial without having to enter credit card details.

Sadly there isn't.

I know it's not great to input your details for trials, but this is one site that's worth the bother.

Thanks

I signed up

Hey Dragonkeeper, nice to see you stuck around. As someone that balked at the credit card requirement, I'm pretty curious, is there anything we could have done to make your decision easier/more clear? For instance, did you try out the demo prior to checking out the signup page? Did the "learn more" pages answer all your questions? Would it have been possible for us to make our value proposition more clear (not necessarily sales-y)?

Rest assured that we really do let you cancel your subscription at the click of a button, and there is no obligation for 2 weeks. Although we are experimenting with the credit card system, we're not into the whole upselling, spamming, hoop-jumping method of "customer retention."

Feel free to drop us a line any time if you have any further questions or suggestions, and I'm serious about the questions above, if you have thoughts let us know!

On the topic of "learn more" - is the video thing (I assume it's a video) supposed to work there? i tried on 2 different browsers (IE/ff) and on 2 different computers, all I get is a blank white box with a small pause button at the bottom, which turns into a black progress ribbon with a glowing thingie on mouseover... (and yes I did wait for a fairly long time, assuming some kind of preloading)

This wasn't really a huge confidence boost to enter creditcard details anywhere, if you know what i mean :P

The demo worked though and looked promising, which is why i got so far as to post here in the forum in spite of this.

That's worrisome; it should be working! I'm guessing you're not in China, so I shan't blame the Great Firewall.

I've been trying, but I can't reproduce the issue. Does anyone else see this? It's here:
http://www.skritter.com/learn_more

alien, can you access this link directly?
http://www.skritter.com/swfs/about.mp4

I tried the link as a quick test - didn't seem to work for me. Looked fine as it was loading, but then never played.

(ff 3.6.2, windows)

Looks like we need to re-encode that video. For now, I've disabled it on Firefox where it doesn't work. George is about to redesign this page and ditch that video.