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Frankly if your paid-tier is so underwhelming that people would 'bunk off' and keep renewing free trials then I think your offering sucks. Look at current Flic

Frankly if your paid-tier is so underwhelming that people would 'bunk off' and keep renewing free trials then I think your offering sucks. Look at current Flickr, trying to force users into a one-size Pro membership. They're not listening to light users who won't pay $50 + taxes + currency conversion fees to get 'stats and partner offers'. Instead people are creating multuple accounts and storing 999 photos in each, for free. Flickr should be in that space with $10 Basic accounts

sethammons 8y ago
Sure, there are businesses that need better pricing. There are also people who will go through extraordinary efforts to get something for "free" (ignoring the cost of their efforts). I'm fairly sure that if you had a service that changes $1 to $2 that you would have people figuring out how to not give that $1.
- melcor 8y ago
  That's true, but those people would most likely never be paying customers. If you could get 10% of the freeloaders to become paying customers by adding a lower price bracket that would be a win for the business.
Silhouette 8y ago
Frankly if your paid-tier is so underwhelming that people would 'bunk off' and keep renewing free trials then I think your offering sucks. If you've never run a business in this sort of industry, you would be truly amazed at the lengths some people will go to just to save a few bucks. At an early stage of one of my businesses, the founders were literally sleeping in shifts because a small group of people was creating new accounts 24/7 and trying to scrape our entire offering piece by piece to work around the caps on individual accounts. So apparently our offering was good enough for them to try to clone all of it and presumably set up a copycat site, yet by your argument it was also "underwhelming" because they didn't want to pay anything for it.

sethammons 8y ago

Sure, there are businesses that need better pricing. There are also people who will go through extraordinary efforts to get something for "free" (ignoring the cost of their efforts). I'm fairly sure that if you had a service that changes $1 to $2 that you would have people figuring out how to not give that $1.

melcor 8y ago
That's true, but those people would most likely never be paying customers. If you could get 10% of the freeloaders to become paying customers by adding a lower price bracket that would be a win for the business.

Silhouette 8y ago

Frankly if your paid-tier is so underwhelming that people would 'bunk off' and keep renewing free trials then I think your offering sucks. If you've never run a business in this sort of industry, you would be truly amazed at the lengths some people will go to just to save a few bucks. At an early stage of one of my businesses, the founders were literally sleeping in shifts because a small group of people was creating new accounts 24/7 and trying to scrape our entire offering piece by piece to work around the caps on individual accounts. So apparently our offering was good enough for them to try to clone all of it and presumably set up a copycat site, yet by your argument it was also "underwhelming" because they didn't want to pay anything for it.