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

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

Michel L.
New member | Level 2

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..

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merenptah
Explorer | Level 3

Well @Mark I can see your point but I'm the type of person Drobox should want to retain as customer. I tend to be an early adopter, donj't mind paying for services (do you know how many other Phd student friends of mine pay for cloud services? NONE). I rave about good products to everyone, have gotten many others to sign up to dropbox in its early days. And right now as is, most of my fellow postgraduate students and fellow early career researchers I know do not ever foreee themselves as paying for cloud services anyway--with so many freebies going around you can get away with that. When they get near their storage limit they delete stuff, or they shuffle back and forth 3-4 free acounts. So I am quite the anomoly: a poor student with limited resources who WANTS to pay. But the market is saturtated. I recognise that currently Dropbox is a superior product but that crappy OneDrive will get me where I need to go if need be. Using your car analogy, a Toyata may be better than a Hyundai but most people with limited income would be satisifed with a Hyundai.  But a better analogy would be this: market research for banking in in the UK finds that the bank accounts university students open whilst young are often the ones they bank with for their whole lifetime. So banks knowing this offer ridiculously generous bank accounts with many perks and amenities counting on their loyalty as they become older and more affluent. Now I am comdortable paying, I don't want a freebie, and I may only be able to afford a certain price point for cloud services now but that won't always be the case as I will hopefully be gainfully employed when my student status end: but by then it might be too late for Dropbox, my fond memories of Dropbox and its stregths will likely be a distant memory, and the over-saturated market and its competitors may eventually start producing a better product and by then I will have been invested in someone else's ecosystem and Dropbox will not be able to benefit from my increasing disposable income. (hopefully!). I value the superior Dropbox product enough as a poor PhD student to want to give them SOME of my limited resources  and would do so ahead of its competitors, all things being equal, but not enough so if makes no economic sense to do so.  If I was a fully employed working professional, $99 a year would be a cost I would gladly pay. But for students why not offer something like $49 a year until student status ends? That's what Amazon prime does, Spotify does, and what tne NY Times and Washington Post do. Yeah, OneDrive is kind of sucky, but guess what i can live with sucky if need be. And cloud storage isn't a luxury item, it's a relatively simple service. Dropbox would do well to take advantage of customer loyalty while there is still loyalty to be had and while it still has an obviosuly superiuor product. 

Sanchez
Dropbox Staff
Hey all, 

I have been going through your suggestions here, and on a similar thread, and I’ve made your comments available to our team in my internal feedback report. There are a lot of ideas in these pages, and I want to assure you that they are reaching the right inboxes for review. 
 
Cheers! 
Jason F.9
Helpful | Level 6

The 1TB restriction for consumers, and massive price difference due to minimum 3 user requirement for Business plans will be the END of Dropbox. 

 

Google is providing a very very competitive priced solution - and if no action is taken by Dropbox to increase storage options I will be forced to move - and I will be making a lot of noise about it due to the inconvenience.

Elizabeth R.10
Explorer | Level 3

Dropbox started with a good product. They still have a good product but they have lots of competition. In most businesses, that mean a drop in prices all around. Eventually Dropbox will have to come up with a better plan. Otherwise, it risks lost business, little new busines, and a bad reputation.

eprombil
Collaborator | Level 9

 we want 40 or 50 gb :heart_eyes:

ataakay
New member | Level 2

i hope

Suyash_Garg
New member | Level 2
I would happily pay for the space i need rather than overpay for what i dont need.
sdlucly
Explorer | Level 3

I can't believe we are so few, the ones that are still using the free plan but wouldn't have problem with paying $40 or $50 a year for a 100 GB plan, because we really don't need the 1tb and are right now paying for plans in another company.

So I guess we can only keep posting comments about it in the forum.

Marco L.2
Helpful | Level 6

I would gladly pay half the price of the 1TB plan to get 1/10th of the size.

Lalorod1
Explorer | Level 3

Because of small budget can you guys sale a 500 G like for $4 to $5 
please

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