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> There is a case to be made that charging less than $10/month for a service is not good business. I don't think so. Just last week I signed up for unblockus.c

by venus 14y ago

> There is a case to be made that charging less than $10/month for a service is not good business. I don't think so. Just last week I signed up for unblockus.com; $5/month. Every domain name registrar on the planet - $12 a year or so. Full automated services should not be subject to a monthly minimum, and they shouldn't need support. > people who pay low amounts are the most demanding in terms of support Do you really think this would be a big factor for Dropbox? If so - just say any under-100GB account has the same support as the free account. > Is $10/month too much for you? Well no it's not, obviously, since that's what I pay. But I am the only person I know with a pro account, since it's such overkill, and even I kind of resent paying for so much more than I need. I like Dropbox, I want to use it. Just let me pay an appropriate amount for an appropriate usage! > you don't need to spam friends, there are regularly things like contests (Dropquest 2011, 2012) where you get free space for completing tasks I am guessing you are pretty young. You will be amazed at how quickly your tolerance for such things decreases with age. Free space for completing tasks? That does not even make sense, because if you have to complete some task it is obviously not free. How about I just do my job, and buy things I need (like dropbox), and everyone is happy.

aristidb 14y ago
> I kind of resent paying for so much more than I need. I wonder if Dropbox might make more money if they charged $10/month for 20 GB, because 20 GB is not more than most people need. (It would be a worse deal, but if the main problem is having more storage space than you need...) > I am guessing you are pretty young. You will be amazed at how quickly your tolerance for such things decreases with age. That is the point. As the value of your time goes up, so should your willingness to pay $10/month. This is price discrimination, with price points of $0 and $10.
- DeepDuh 14y ago
  I think you might have a point. Only now it's probably too late for them to do that, you can't take away what users already have.
davidandgoliath 14y ago
Note, it's unblock-us.com -- and it's a vpn service, not a registration provider if I'm mistaken. Just because an entity exists selling something at $x doesn't necessarily mean it's financially viable. Companies go out of business all the time because they don't charge enough. My company used to sell services at $6 a month and we had 2x the client-base that we have now at 1/10th of the revenue. If dropbox worked on a usage-based billing model they'd never net nearly as much income as they do offering ~100 gigs to users who would barely use ~10 gigabytes of space a piece on average.
- SafeSituation 14y ago
  Unless I'm mistaken, the previous poster wasn't calling unblock-us a registrar, just referring to two different businesses that charge less than $10/mo.
- kjemperud 14y ago
  Not very important, but unblock-us.com is not a VPN service, it's a specialized DNS service.
  - davidandgoliath 14y ago
    Very odd in light of their homepage title being 'smarter faster VPN'.

by venus 14y ago

aristidb 14y ago

> I kind of resent paying for so much more than I need. I wonder if Dropbox might make more money if they charged $10/month for 20 GB, because 20 GB is not more than most people need. (It would be a worse deal, but if the main problem is having more storage space than you need...) > I am guessing you are pretty young. You will be amazed at how quickly your tolerance for such things decreases with age. That is the point. As the value of your time goes up, so should your willingness to pay $10/month. This is price discrimination, with price points of $0 and $10.

DeepDuh 14y ago
I think you might have a point. Only now it's probably too late for them to do that, you can't take away what users already have.

davidandgoliath 14y ago

Note, it's unblock-us.com -- and it's a vpn service, not a registration provider if I'm mistaken. Just because an entity exists selling something at $x doesn't necessarily mean it's financially viable. Companies go out of business all the time because they don't charge enough. My company used to sell services at $6 a month and we had 2x the client-base that we have now at 1/10th of the revenue. If dropbox worked on a usage-based billing model they'd never net nearly as much income as they do offering ~100 gigs to users who would barely use ~10 gigabytes of space a piece on average.

SafeSituation 14y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, the previous poster wasn't calling unblock-us a registrar, just referring to two different businesses that charge less than $10/mo.
kjemperud 14y ago
Not very important, but unblock-us.com is not a VPN service, it's a specialized DNS service.
- davidandgoliath 14y ago
  Very odd in light of their homepage title being 'smarter faster VPN'.