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This is pretty exciting. Great news! I would love to use this for a number of things I'm involved with, but I am surprised by the package that is offered. I'm

by zefhous 16y ago

This is pretty exciting. Great news! I would love to use this for a number of things I'm involved with, but I am surprised by the package that is offered. I'm not saying that what they offer (1 year of 350 GB for $800) is not worth the price, but I am disappointed that there isn't a smaller package. My needs for this kind of thing are more like 10-20GB. The team features are very attractive, but there's no way I am going to sign up for a package that large. I'm sure Dropbox has put a lot of thought into the decision though. I'm very curious about where they are going with this and if they will ever offer a smaller team account. Personally I'd love to see a team account somewhere around $10 a month for 10 GB and 5 users. Basically same price as their Pro 50 individual account, but with 5 users and 1/5th of the capacity.

vdm 16y ago
Ditto. I'd pay about $20-30 a month, depending on the value offered, for 20GB/10 users, and surcharges for overage. As is this is of no use to me. There is no free trial so I can't see if it works (for me) first. No way I'm springing $800 up front without seeing the merchandise. This is a shame because Dropbox is a great service, and I don't pay for a personal account (don't need more than 2GB), but could totally see myself paying for a work account. If Dropbox could be configured as a backing store for a NAS (eg QNAP) it would take over the world.
- pin4444 16y ago
  So you'd be willing to pay at most $3 per month and employee for a productivity tool? You're not running a real company, are you?
  - nkassis 16y ago
    I've worked at places tha would be OK paying 2K+ for Mathematica but nothing for stuff like this. Real companies are not logical.
    - pin4444 16y ago
      Sure, but working for a non-logical company and running one are two different things...
    - jrockway 16y ago
      Yeah, but Dropbox's prices are too low for these places. I've found that asking for $20 to get an Excel plugin that gives you Vim keybindings is an impossible task. But getting a million dollars for a proprietary knockoff of memcached? Easy. You don't even have to fill out an expense report.
dawson 16y ago
Our team of 3 each [currently] has an individual Pro 50 account (more than enough for our needs). One of the members has the unlimited roll back, priced at $38. That's a total cost of $397.64.
arnorhs 16y ago
You're right, the price might seem high. And when you're a team of only a few people it's a high price per user. Personally, I would pay this price if I had a team of more than about 5 people. Simply based on the fact how reliable Dropbox has been for me and I think it will be hard for anybody to give me a better product. I've been half wishing for a "master dropbox account" for some time and I'm glad to know it is available, even if it's a bit expensive.
- tomstuart 16y ago
  Unfortunately if you had a team of more than about 5 people you'd have to pay another $125/yr for each additional person.
  - arnorhs 16y ago
    Somehow I completely missed that. I got the impression the pricing was not affected by the number of users, but I can see it pretty clearly now. They could have made that more clear. It seems much too expensive to me at this point.
cvg 16y ago
I don't think the price is too bad. It comes out to $13 per seat per month for a team of 5. Drops to $10 per each additional. I think this is more an issue of pricing psychology. The price should be marketed as $65 a month for a team of up to 5, $10 for each additional team member.
- dave1619 16y ago
  I agree. A better price point would be $50 a month. Even with that I'm not sure if I would sign up for our team. If there was a step up from free, like $20 a month for less storage I might do that.
sabat 16y ago
I had the same thought immediately -- nothing smaller than 350GB? -- but then it occurred to me that fees lower than $800 may not be worth Dropbox's while.
bradly 16y ago
Compared to the current "enterprise" DAM solutions, this is practically free. SharePoint, Documentum, etc. can be tens of thousands a month plus huge setup fees to get rolling. Disclosure: I work for a startup that offers digital asset management and distribution to large corporations.
- anthonycerra 16y ago
  I understand your point, but for a small startup $800/yr is not practically free. 'Teams' is a great first step, but it's not a reasonable solution to my problem yet.
  - LiveTheDream 16y ago
    In that case, you're not the target customer.
bradgessler 16y ago
Run these numbers on Amazon S3 and you end up at $588 per year. Dropbox is a bargain at this price. I will say that DB seems to have really awkward tiers. I could see people eating up a $13.50 per mo. per user rate a little easier than a $795 bomb.
caf 16y ago
I tend to agree - a small volunteer organisation I'm involved with just shares a single Pro 50 account among a few people. We'd upgrade to a small teams account if it was only a bit more expensive.

by zefhous 16y ago

vdm 16y ago

Ditto. I'd pay about $20-30 a month, depending on the value offered, for 20GB/10 users, and surcharges for overage. As is this is of no use to me. There is no free trial so I can't see if it works (for me) first. No way I'm springing $800 up front without seeing the merchandise. This is a shame because Dropbox is a great service, and I don't pay for a personal account (don't need more than 2GB), but could totally see myself paying for a work account. If Dropbox could be configured as a backing store for a NAS (eg QNAP) it would take over the world.

pin4444 16y ago
So you'd be willing to pay at most $3 per month and employee for a productivity tool? You're not running a real company, are you?
- nkassis 16y ago
  I've worked at places tha would be OK paying 2K+ for Mathematica but nothing for stuff like this. Real companies are not logical.
  - pin4444 16y ago
    Sure, but working for a non-logical company and running one are two different things...
  - jrockway 16y ago
    Yeah, but Dropbox's prices are too low for these places. I've found that asking for $20 to get an Excel plugin that gives you Vim keybindings is an impossible task. But getting a million dollars for a proprietary knockoff of memcached? Easy. You don't even have to fill out an expense report.

dawson 16y ago

Our team of 3 each [currently] has an individual Pro 50 account (more than enough for our needs). One of the members has the unlimited roll back, priced at $38. That's a total cost of $397.64.

arnorhs 16y ago

You're right, the price might seem high. And when you're a team of only a few people it's a high price per user. Personally, I would pay this price if I had a team of more than about 5 people. Simply based on the fact how reliable Dropbox has been for me and I think it will be hard for anybody to give me a better product. I've been half wishing for a "master dropbox account" for some time and I'm glad to know it is available, even if it's a bit expensive.

tomstuart 16y ago
Unfortunately if you had a team of more than about 5 people you'd have to pay another $125/yr for each additional person.
- arnorhs 16y ago
  Somehow I completely missed that. I got the impression the pricing was not affected by the number of users, but I can see it pretty clearly now. They could have made that more clear. It seems much too expensive to me at this point.

cvg 16y ago

I don't think the price is too bad. It comes out to $13 per seat per month for a team of 5. Drops to $10 per each additional. I think this is more an issue of pricing psychology. The price should be marketed as $65 a month for a team of up to 5, $10 for each additional team member.

dave1619 16y ago
I agree. A better price point would be $50 a month. Even with that I'm not sure if I would sign up for our team. If there was a step up from free, like $20 a month for less storage I might do that.

sabat 16y ago

I had the same thought immediately -- nothing smaller than 350GB? -- but then it occurred to me that fees lower than $800 may not be worth Dropbox's while.

bradly 16y ago

Compared to the current "enterprise" DAM solutions, this is practically free. SharePoint, Documentum, etc. can be tens of thousands a month plus huge setup fees to get rolling. Disclosure: I work for a startup that offers digital asset management and distribution to large corporations.

anthonycerra 16y ago
I understand your point, but for a small startup $800/yr is not practically free. 'Teams' is a great first step, but it's not a reasonable solution to my problem yet.
- LiveTheDream 16y ago
  In that case, you're not the target customer.

bradgessler 16y ago

Run these numbers on Amazon S3 and you end up at $588 per year. Dropbox is a bargain at this price. I will say that DB seems to have really awkward tiers. I could see people eating up a $13.50 per mo. per user rate a little easier than a $795 bomb.

caf 16y ago

I tend to agree - a small volunteer organisation I'm involved with just shares a single Pro 50 account among a few people. We'd upgrade to a small teams account if it was only a bit more expensive.