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finally, I was about to drop dropbox because I am running out of space. I absolutely love the service, but their prices are just 2-3 times above the competition
by dekiba 17y ago
finally, I was about to drop dropbox because I am running out of space.
I absolutely love the service, but their prices are just 2-3 times above the competition. I would buy the 100 GB in a heartbeat if it would be 50-70 USD a year.
- AndrewDucker 17y agoAgreed. It's a good service, but I just can't justify the cost. I'd pay $25 for a 10GB service, but I don't need the amount of space they're providing.
- c1sc0 17y agoI started paying about one month ago (50Gb account) and I must say it really changed the way I use Dropbox. I'm at 70% fill now and a few weeks ago I never imagined I'd get above 10Gb. Parkinson's corollary law at work I guess: "Data expands to fill the space available for storage." ... Just out of curiosity I would like to ask the DropBox people if Parkinson's law affects their service & if it does, do they see that as a threat or opportunity?
- ashleyw 17y agoI agree, their prices are a bit steep. Especially when you consider you'll probably not even use all the storage; it only starts to become 'worth it' if you're was using the full 50/100GB. If they charged per GB @ say, $0.25/GB, I'd use it a hell of a lot more.
- mikeyur 17y agoI'm using a 20GB account that costs $6.99/mo. - It's perfect for me, but I don't think it's available anymore. I believe it was just a paid tier they put in to test if people would use it.
- rossriley 17y agoI suppose the problem is that paying users are subsidising free users. I know our company has about four paid accounts but we tell all our clients to get free accounts so that we can easily share files. It means that there must be a 10:1 ish ratio of free to paid accounts which probably prevents them from dropping the price. Arguably though, the service would be less valuable if everyone had to have a paid account before you could share files with them.
- dekiba 17y agoI use it for my business too. We have 4 different accounts and I am the only one connecting all accounts. If dropbox would offer an option to get 50 GB and create 10 accounts who can access different folders I would gladly pay 100-150 USD a year.