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Tip: Never pay for Dropbox at $99/year. It's repeatedly discounted throughout the year at Dell's website for $60, and often also comes with a $25 Dell gift card

Tip: Never pay for Dropbox at $99/year. It's repeatedly discounted throughout the year at Dell's website for $60, and often also comes with a $25 Dell gift card. So effectively, its value is $35/year, and you can buy multiple codes, redeem them, so you'd be effectively paying in advance for as long as you want, at 1/3rd of the price.

asadlionpk 9y ago
any link for this? I am planning to renew my plan.
- deleted 9y ago
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- notfried 9y ago
  You can add an Alert on Slickdeals to notify you. There was one last week for $70/year [0], but it's no longer active. [0] https://slickdeals.net/f/11225815-dropbox-annual-subscription-69-99?src=SiteSearchV2_SearchBarV2Algo1 https://slickdeals.net/f/11225815-dropbox-annual-subscriptio...
jedberg 9y ago
Normally I would jump on this, but I like dropbox, I like the people there, and I like Drew, so I'm willing to spend an extra $30 a year to increase their revenue and keep them in business longer.
- jcsnv 9y ago
  Same here, I have yet to have an issue with the Dropbox UX
- tetrazine 9y ago
  Sorry, what??? I mean, you're entitled to do whatever you'd like. But do you see the potential valuations being tossed around? "Drew" is worth tens to hundreds of millions. I just have no idea why someone would find it not only worth it to take money out of their own pocket to further a corporation that has no need for the empathy we would normally afford to people (or small businesses, which "round down" to individual people or small groups), but would actually see value in sharing this thought process with everyone else. It's not like using a "deal" is unethical or illegal (like, say, piracy), the company in question (or a reseller taking the hit) offered it. Is this some kind of silicon valley flavor of virtue signaling? If dropbox was a startup with 8 employees, especially one that didn't offer the near-commodity service (yes, I know UX etc matter here) that dropbox does, I would understand this. But that's so far from the case
  - anonytrary 9y ago
    Predictably irrational people exist! However, how is this different than a $30 donation? I think the real question you want to ask is: Why do people donate money to people who already have lots of money?
    - ironjunkie 9y ago
      As you state, this comment equals to: "I like Drew, so let me make a donation of 30$ to Dropbox" That's why I like economics so much. A lot of irrational behavior come simply from the fact that humans are usually terrible to understand the underlying economic transactions taking place. One of my favorite irrational behaviour is the one in which people value object they got more than the equivalent price in which they could buy//sell that object. For example: You have an old bottle of wine in your cellar, and it is now valued at 500$. A lot of people would simply put, never buy a 500$ bottle. But if that bottle was your possession, most of the people would keep it and eventually probably drink it, being completely irrational in regards with the 500$ valuation.
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      - jmalicki 9y ago
        You also have to consider the level of effort it takes to sell the bottle to someone who isn't an experienced wine dealer, and the spread that likely exists between the buyer and seller. So even though it may be $500 to buy new, it's probably more like a $100 bottle if they sell it, so it's like getting an 80% off deal? Why not drink it?
        totalZero 9y ago
        > the spread that likely exists between the buyer and seller. Spread doesn't have to favor a buyer.
        9y ago

asadlionpk 9y ago

any link for this? I am planning to renew my plan.

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notfried 9y ago
You can add an Alert on Slickdeals to notify you. There was one last week for $70/year [0], but it's no longer active. [0] https://slickdeals.net/f/11225815-dropbox-annual-subscription-69-99?src=SiteSearchV2_SearchBarV2Algo1 https://slickdeals.net/f/11225815-dropbox-annual-subscriptio...

jedberg 9y ago

Normally I would jump on this, but I like dropbox, I like the people there, and I like Drew, so I'm willing to spend an extra $30 a year to increase their revenue and keep them in business longer.

jcsnv 9y ago
Same here, I have yet to have an issue with the Dropbox UX
tetrazine 9y ago
Sorry, what??? I mean, you're entitled to do whatever you'd like. But do you see the potential valuations being tossed around? "Drew" is worth tens to hundreds of millions. I just have no idea why someone would find it not only worth it to take money out of their own pocket to further a corporation that has no need for the empathy we would normally afford to people (or small businesses, which "round down" to individual people or small groups), but would actually see value in sharing this thought process with everyone else. It's not like using a "deal" is unethical or illegal (like, say, piracy), the company in question (or a reseller taking the hit) offered it. Is this some kind of silicon valley flavor of virtue signaling? If dropbox was a startup with 8 employees, especially one that didn't offer the near-commodity service (yes, I know UX etc matter here) that dropbox does, I would understand this. But that's so far from the case
- anonytrary 9y ago
  Predictably irrational people exist! However, how is this different than a $30 donation? I think the real question you want to ask is: Why do people donate money to people who already have lots of money?
  - ironjunkie 9y ago
    As you state, this comment equals to: "I like Drew, so let me make a donation of 30$ to Dropbox" That's why I like economics so much. A lot of irrational behavior come simply from the fact that humans are usually terrible to understand the underlying economic transactions taking place. One of my favorite irrational behaviour is the one in which people value object they got more than the equivalent price in which they could buy//sell that object. For example: You have an old bottle of wine in your cellar, and it is now valued at 500$. A lot of people would simply put, never buy a 500$ bottle. But if that bottle was your possession, most of the people would keep it and eventually probably drink it, being completely irrational in regards with the 500$ valuation.
    - deleted 9y ago
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    - jmalicki 9y ago
      You also have to consider the level of effort it takes to sell the bottle to someone who isn't an experienced wine dealer, and the spread that likely exists between the buyer and seller. So even though it may be $500 to buy new, it's probably more like a $100 bottle if they sell it, so it's like getting an 80% off deal? Why not drink it?
      - totalZero 9y ago
        > the spread that likely exists between the buyer and seller. Spread doesn't have to favor a buyer.
        9y ago