What do you pay for online?

[Miss Chicken]

I think it has been a couple of years since I asked this question and my answer has changed slightly, so I guess other people's might have as well.

By 'pay for' I mean subscriptions to sites and services etc but not online purchases of products.

I pay for

Trekbbs premium membership

2 Flickr pro accounts - one for me, one for a guy in Bangladesh (people in that country doesn't access to Paypal or credit cards so he needs someone outside to pay for him)

subscription to BBC iPlayer - Australians can only access BBC iPlayer via an iPad not through their PCs. I pay for this service so I can get access to several programs I can't see on Australian TV. I connect my iPad to my TV to watch programs.

Dropbox - I probably could get cloud storage cheaper but I couldn't be bothered looking for it.

Big Fish game membership. I get games cheaper and can take advantage of special offers.

Yearly membership of the genealogical site Ancestry.com.au - I pay for 1/2 the membership, my sister pays the other half. She does all the work.

I also am a lifetime member of LibraryThing. It is a once off payment, I think the membership cost me about $25, and I paid it aound 2 1/2 years ago. It means I can catalogue as many books as I like (whereas with an unpaid account you are limited to 200 books).

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I have a yearly subscription to MLB.TV (lets me watch every major league game live, online). It costs about $125 a year.

It's one of the reasons I no longer have cable.

 

[Amaris]

I pay for my TrekBBS membership.
Once in a while, I buy Cryptic points for Star Trek: Online.
I pay for the domain name to Starscape BBS.

 

[Lumi]

The only thing I pay for is Netflix.

I can't really afford to be paying all sorts of monthly fees to random places. I love Dropbox, but I don't use it enough to fill up the free space I have anyway.

Btw... I had no idea that premium TrekBBS membership existed.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I reached the Dropbox free space limit mid-way through last year. It took me a couple of months of thinking about it before I decided to pay for more space.

Btw... I had no idea that premium TrekBBS membership existed.

I decided on premium membership so that i could get rid of all the ads on the site, and so that I could have a customised title (Little three legged cat with attitude).

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I have DropBox too, but just the 'free' allotment; I only use it to keep my 1Password data synced 'twixt my i-devices. I find it a massively useful thing.

 

[Lumi]

I only use it to share photos and home videos with loved ones who live far away. Very useful for that.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I wish I could use it for my iPhoto library, but it won't work. iPhoto 11's library format uses symlinks, which DropBox can't handle.

Then again, when I travel, I usually have my iPad, which has all my photos anyway.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

World of Warcraft subscription
Flickr pro
Domain registrations

 

[Miss Chicken]

I have a yearly subscription to MLB.TV (lets me watch every major league game live, online). It costs about $125 a year.

It's one of the reasons I no longer have cable.

I don't have Pay TV (cable) either. The BBC iPlayer subscription give me most of the shows I want to see and is far cheaper than cable.

 

[Lumi]

About Dropbox: I forgot to add that when I get close to the limit, we just go through it and delete things and save them to our PCs. So we will never run out of free space.

I used to play WoW. From 2007 to early 2011. It got to a point that all I ever did when I logged in was run around in circles in Stormwind, looking at guild chat. I decided it was no longer worth the $15/month. I do sort of miss it, though. Miss my friends there.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

About Dropbox: I forgot to add that when I get close to the limit, we just go through it and delete things and save them to our PCs. So we will never run out of free space.

I used to play WoW. From 2007 to early 2011. It got to a point that all I ever did when I logged in was run around in circles in Stormwind, looking at guild chat. I decided it was no longer worth the $15/month. I do sort of miss it, though. Miss my friends there.

I consider it very cheap entertainment. I easily spend more than 15 bucks going out ONCE, never mind a month's worth.

 

[Lumi]

About Dropbox: I forgot to add that when I get close to the limit, we just go through it and delete things and save them to our PCs. So we will never run out of free space.

I used to play WoW. From 2007 to early 2011. It got to a point that all I ever did when I logged in was run around in circles in Stormwind, looking at guild chat. I decided it was no longer worth the $15/month. I do sort of miss it, though. Miss my friends there.

I consider it very cheap entertainment. I easily spend more than 15 bucks going out ONCE, never mind a month's worth.

It was definitely worth it to me for all those years when I actually played it - dungeons, raids, guild activities, etc. But I have a very limited budget anyway and so since I wasn't really doing anything in game anymore... it had to be cut.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I took a break of a few months but I really missed my character.

Come back when it's Pandas!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I have a yearly subscription to MLB.TV (lets me watch every major league game live, online). It costs about $125 a year.

It's one of the reasons I no longer have cable.

I don't have Pay TV (cable) either. The BBC iPlayer subscription give me most of the shows I want to see and is far cheaper than cable.

I dropped cable because of the abovementioned MLB.TV, and also because I watch exactly TWO TV shows now: Law & Order: SVU (which I buy from iTunes) and This Week In Baseball (free online).

Forgot about that SVU thing, BTW. I buy season passes in HD from iTunes every year. And keep the episodes once watched. Much easier than waiting for Universal to pull its head out of its ass and release SVU in Blu-Ray.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I buy several shows from iTunes but I consider that as an online purchase rather than a subscription or service.

I currently have Game of Thrones downloaded from iTunes on my computer but will probably delete it when I buy the DVDs. I want the DVDs for all the extras rather than the episodes. Same with Supernatural. Whereas I will keep stick to only having the iTunes episodes of Haven and Lost Girl.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

At the moment it's only my premium membership for Trekbbs and my membership for FSF. Just fixed my trekbbs premium membership, but yet to decide about FSF membership, as it expires in May (depends on what conventions are announced in the future)

 

[Mr. B]

I pay for web hosting through HostRocket. The only website I've held a paid subscription for is Radio Reference. Their premium service basically allows you do download frequency/talkgroup info from their vast database directly into my police scanner... very convenient.

 

[auntiehill]

Just Netflix. Hubby likes to watch old TV shows on instant download. But that's pretty much the only online subscription we have.

 

[Spot's Meow]

Just Netflix. Hubby likes to watch old TV shows on instant download. But that's pretty much the only online subscription we have.

Same here, just Netflix. Though until recently I wouldn't have considered that an online expense, since I signed up to get the DVDs in the mail and used them pretty heavily until they made us choose between streaming and DVDs last year. I had a subscription to Club Pogo for a while, but it was given to me as a gift, I wouldn't buy it for myself.