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Why would you announce new prices prior to the new price page launching? I immediately went to see the new pricing options only to be met with the same old pri

by parfe 14y ago

Why would you announce new prices prior to the new price page launching? I immediately went to see the new pricing options only to be met with the same old prices. They squandered my click-through this blog post earned.

jwallaceparker 14y ago
Agreed. That is so annoying. I just spent five minutes digging through my Pro account to see why I hadn't been updated to the 100G limit. Then went back to the article to see this at the bottom: "All this goodness goes live on our pricing page this evening, so stay tuned." Ugh.
glimcat 14y ago
It's not presented in a usable fashion, but the existing Pro tiers are having their storage doubled with price held constant (50GB @ $10, 100GB @ $20 --> 100GB @ $10, 200GB @ $20). They're also adding an additional 500GB tier above those, which we don't know the pricing of yet. Bad presentation on their part, but hopefully that answers the question [that people would have when clicking the link].
- gamzer 14y ago
  Wasn't the only question asked: > Why would you announce new prices prior to the new price page launching? Which to me is still unanswered but very interesting.
  - ja2ke 14y ago
    "Dropbox Pro now comes in flavors of 100 and 200 GB, but at the price of the original 50 and 100 GB plans." I don't know what's complicated about this. It reads like new pricing = old pricing with 2x the storage. Am I missing something, too?
    - mikeash 14y ago
      He's asking why they would announce it before they implement it.
      - sweettea 14y ago
        I hear from a person inside of Dropbox that they announced it early when they'd all gotten drunk and edited the planned well-written blogpost to go up immediately with the new prices.
    - eslaught 14y ago
      See GGP: "They squandered my click-through this blog post earned." The confusion is not what the new prices are. The confusion is, given that they have published new prices, they seem to be hurting themselves by not making them available immediately. Users will go to the blog post and say "oh hey, maybe I should pay for Dropbox now", and then get turned away because the prices aren't actually available yet. So why not capitalize on the publicity and allow people to sign up right away?
  - ja2ke 14y ago
    "Dropbox Pro now comes in flavors of 100 and 200 GB, but at the price of the original 50 and 100 GB plans." I don't know what's complicated about this. It reads like new pricing = old pricing with 2x the storage. Am I missing something, too?
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rplnt 14y ago
They explicitly said that the prices will not change.

by parfe 14y ago

jwallaceparker 14y ago

Agreed. That is so annoying. I just spent five minutes digging through my Pro account to see why I hadn't been updated to the 100G limit. Then went back to the article to see this at the bottom: "All this goodness goes live on our pricing page this evening, so stay tuned." Ugh.

glimcat 14y ago

It's not presented in a usable fashion, but the existing Pro tiers are having their storage doubled with price held constant (50GB @ $10, 100GB @ $20 --> 100GB @ $10, 200GB @ $20). They're also adding an additional 500GB tier above those, which we don't know the pricing of yet. Bad presentation on their part, but hopefully that answers the question [that people would have when clicking the link].

gamzer 14y ago
Wasn't the only question asked: > Why would you announce new prices prior to the new price page launching? Which to me is still unanswered but very interesting.
- ja2ke 14y ago
  "Dropbox Pro now comes in flavors of 100 and 200 GB, but at the price of the original 50 and 100 GB plans." I don't know what's complicated about this. It reads like new pricing = old pricing with 2x the storage. Am I missing something, too?
  - mikeash 14y ago
    He's asking why they would announce it before they implement it.
    - sweettea 14y ago
      I hear from a person inside of Dropbox that they announced it early when they'd all gotten drunk and edited the planned well-written blogpost to go up immediately with the new prices.
  - eslaught 14y ago
    See GGP: "They squandered my click-through this blog post earned." The confusion is not what the new prices are. The confusion is, given that they have published new prices, they seem to be hurting themselves by not making them available immediately. Users will go to the blog post and say "oh hey, maybe I should pay for Dropbox now", and then get turned away because the prices aren't actually available yet. So why not capitalize on the publicity and allow people to sign up right away?
- ja2ke 14y ago
  "Dropbox Pro now comes in flavors of 100 and 200 GB, but at the price of the original 50 and 100 GB plans." I don't know what's complicated about this. It reads like new pricing = old pricing with 2x the storage. Am I missing something, too?

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rplnt 14y ago

They explicitly said that the prices will not change.