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Family plan is too expensive for what it offers
While I would like to have the ability for my wife and I to share a combined account with our own individual logins - it's not worth the extra $80/year, almost doubling the cost for only a limited i...
Great description about the issue. I have had DropBox, Google Drive, iCloud, and OneDrive accounts for a while now. My wife and I currently pay for Apple Cloud ($3) and I pay for an individual Dropbox account ($10), but I'd like for us to consolidate and combine our cloud storage into a one stop shop. I would stay with DropBox if the family plan wasn't so expensive. Google Drive offers the same exact deal for $10, no mark up for additional users. I am not sure why there is this extra premium on Dropbox's end. Is it really more costly for them to link accounts in this way? We may as well just have two separate individual accounts and just link shared folders when needed.
The point of the story is I will plan to switch to Google Drive soon and migrate all of my data (iPhone photos can be backed up through Google Photos as well). I can't help but feel that DropBox is trying to pull a fast one on people who don't shop around, but is it worth ostracizing and possibly losing those who do?
Not sure why people think this is expensive.
Currently I have a 2TB plan and my wife has a 2TB plan - after all why would you share a login? This just creates issues.
If I opt for a family plan, I save money.
Sure, we lose 2TB between us, but as I am nowhere close to that it isn't a problem. Should it be, then we can always split again.
This way I can also invite my children to have their account if they want.
Struggling to see the downside.
Would be great if they offered 4TB on the plan, but if you are not using 2TB now, why would you even want 4TB?
- Who said we’re not using that space? And why do you think that a solution that works for you fits everybody else?
isdoo, I think you are seeing it from the standpoint that you and your family don't use that much Dropbox space. Going from one user up to 6 users trying to share the same storage space as one user would normally have just won't work for most situations. What Dropbox is doing is charging you $7/mo for the privilege of allowing multiple people to access the same Dropbox. It's really pure additional profit for Dropbox because they aren't adding any additional monthly expenses by allowing additional users.
