Can we have different plans / price points / data combinations / plan sizes?

[Michel L.]

Hi, I find limited in the choices of subscription plans. Basic/free and Pro/110$

I'd gladly pay something like 25$ a year for 50GB and a 2 users family plan.

Considering iCloud have a 12$ plan for 20 GB and 48$ for 200GB, that seems reasonable..

[Derek H.4]

For me, I have 50gb free and I'm now out of space. Also I would like to share photos on my dropbox with my wife but she only has 2gb storage and can't accept my folder invite.

There is no way that I'm going to spend 9.99 a month to get more storage space, I would be prepared to spend 2 or 3 dollars a month for another 50gb but I'm not jumping straight up to 1TB and paying almost $120 a year. Plus if my wife wants to accept my folder share she has to pay 9.99 too, suddenly our household is paying $220 dollars a year on cloud storage... no way... far too expensive... nope nope nope

I like dropbox, its great and very convenient, but the entry level price point is way too high.

[Mark]

no way... far too expensive... nope nope nope

Dont you love the free market!

If you dont think its value for money theres nothing, at all, stopping you using another product.

[Derek H.4]

Ya I know... I've just signed up for Google Drive... ... I came here to let you know 😃

[Kenneth_l]

Hey, Derek. Thanks for joining in.

It’s great that you’re using other services in addition to DB. But you’re still in the same relative situation with Google drive as you are right now with DB.

Here’s the current plans and prices for Google drive.

So Google Drive will provide you with 100 GB at $2 a month. Anything more than that and there’s only 1 TB at $10 a month. Same as DB.

You admit you “like Dropbox, it’s great and very convenient”. Your wife has a free DB account with 2 GB. You have a free DB account with 50 GB. Yet as much as you like Dropbox neither of you are paying for DB. At all. Not even 10 cents a year. Your use of DB is not keeping them in business. I think it's far to say if you want more space, for either of you, you should start paying for it.

With your new Google drive 100 MB storage, at $2 a month, you still can’t directly share it with your wife’s DB account. It’s separate. So if she wants to access some of those photos in your 50 GB DB account you must first load them to your new Google drive account. All 50 GB of it.

DB Pro has many features Google drive lacks. And vice versa. As Mark said, there’s nothing stopping any of us from using another product.

Even with Google Drive, once you go past 100 GB you’re going to need more space. Which is going to mean moving up to their 1 TB plan at $10 a month. Which you can't directly share with your wife either.

The 1 TB at $10 a month is just about any reputable online storage service. Dropbox, Google, Microsoft, etc. 

[George G.23]

Same here, my Samsung Galaxy promotion ended and I lost the bulk of my space. I've been using Dropbox for more than 4 years and I'm very happy with it. However, the competition in terms of quality has caught up and the pricing plan is plain stupid. I'm not sure which marketing genius came up with it but I'm surprised the management followed suit.

I don't need 1TB per month so your comparisons are not relevant. I use 20GB-30GB max at this point. If you want to maintain your customers offer more plans not LESS. Alternatively if you want your customers to stay and pay more offer features that Google, Amazon or Microsoft don't have.

I just signed up with Google Drive for their $2/month. I really hope you guys figure something out, get out of your bubble and realize you are doing something wrong.

Cheers,

[Derek H.4]

I just wanted to provide some feedback on the current pricing model to Dropbox staff - I would like to be a paying customer to Dropbox but I've assessed my needs (50-100GB of cloud storage) and made my choices based on cost. My wife and I can both have separate 50GB accounts with Google Drive and our household will still only be paying less than half of the price of a single Dropbox Pro subscription.

Yes if I go over 100GB and require more storage I will reassess the options but it will be a while before I create another 50GB of family photos and excel spreadsheets.

[Mark]

If you want to maintain your customers offer more plans not LESS

Customer numbers continually increase so obviously what they are doing works. 

[Kenneth_l]

Welcome to the discussion, George.

I'm not going to argue with you, George. Perhaps you totally skipped the facts and current figures and updates and links that were clearly given previously in this topic. 

Point blank, to save us both a lot of wasted time, I'll repeat some irrefutable evidence that you clearly are missing. Which is this:

The $400 Billion dollar plus company, Google, used to offer lower priced storage plans and they stopped. It didn't make them money. They no longer offer them. No single reputable online storage company will. Especially those with unique features like Dropbox.

Maybe if you were the CEO you could restore such lower priced plans and when the company goes bankrupt because of your decision you can try blaming someone else. It's not rocket science, George. I'll repeat it again so you won't possibly miss it this time.

Google used to have those plans. Didn't make them money. They quit. Now they only offer plans that make them money. Just like Dropbox, Microsoft, etc. 

Whatever DB may be doing wrong it certainly isn't their pricing. Saying you're joining Google as a means to convince DB to lower their pricing is a flawed tactic. Because you're obviously missing what I've repeated several times already: Repeating here once again for clarity.

Dropbox, Google, and Microsoft all have prices that are 1 TB for about $10 a month. That is now the default universal standard storage size and pricing for the online storage industry.

No matter what other service you use and how much they charge, they're not Dropbox. If Dropbox has a great and easy to use service with plenty of unique features - guess what - you should pay for it.  

Companies are in business to make money. If you find Dropbox useful then pay for it. If it's useful but you can stay under whatever storage amount you have for free, then do that. 

[Kenneth_l]

Derek, please help me out here as I’m about to get confused.

You said your wife has DB 2 GB and you have DB 50 GB. You’ve filled up your DB 50 GB. You need more space and something that will allow you to easily share your online content with your wife. No problem. I’ve got that part.

But then you said you just signed up for Google Drive.

Google Drive does not offer 50 GB storage plans. Unless you were grandfathered in. Which means you already had that plan active before today. Which I assume you didn’t.

Google Drive, for over a year now, has 15 GB free then 100 GB at $2 a month, then 1 TB at $10 a month. They do not have 50 GB plans.

I guess unless you’re in some country that has some exclusive deal with Google that the rest of us don’t get.

Whatever that plan is, you’re paying it twice. One for you, another for your wife. So how much a month is that?

I’ve more questions but I’ll start with these. I don’t want to get confused.

[George G.23]

Kenneth you start by saying "I'm not going to argue with you" but this is exactly what you are doing haha.

In any case you have your ideas on this, I disagree with them which is why I switched. The reason I posted here was because I wanted to express my dissapointment with the pricing plan. Telling me the pricing plan is fine won't help anyone.