Y'know what would be nice?

[conuly]

If, instead of having to buy a full paid account just for, say, 10 userpics, you could buy each benefit individually. The entire package would be cheaper, but if all you wanted was the ability to make polls, you could buy that, or if you just wanted the extra userpics, you could buy that, and another fee would allow you to buy fancy customization options. No use spending extra money on features you won't use. And you'd have to buy the WHOLE THING to get priority server speed. That's fair.

Comments

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Yes!! I don't care about all of the other features -- I have my own webspace, I can even write my own blog, the only reason I'm even *on* LJ is because that's where everybody else is right now... The only thing I want is the ability to use more than three measly userpics, but I can't justify buying a "paid" account, they're out of my price range.

I'd also like to see userpics be a fixed image, not variable code, so I could block certain ones. (Some of my LJ friends have a userpic that is either obnoxiously ugly/annoying or moves in a way that bothers my eyes.)

Chances are that people buy the whole account often enough just to get the pics, though, that it's the real reason that LJ doesn't let people just pay for extra pics. :-p

[conuly]

Probably. I think I'll suggest this to them anyway.

[mortaine.livejournal.com]

It's been suggested before. Remember that every payment costs a little percentage to process-- and it's not a flat %. A $1.00 transaction to pay for userpics, for instance, might cost $.50 just to process, counting bank and c.c. fees (or paypal fees), plus staff time. Not to mention the nightmare of supporting all the "I meant to order userpics-- why did I get embedding instead?"

I think it makes sense to have paid features and unpaid features; if you go a la carte with 3 million users, you get into a logistical hassle that will never untangle. Plus, the paid accounts are inexpensive enough that you can pay for it and just figure it cost you $2.50/month to have 15 userpics, if that's the feature you care about.

[conuly]

Well, um, yeah, but... NYAH! Stop having good replies! That's no fair! Whine, whine whine.

Okay, I'm done now. :) Thanks, that actually does make sense. Even if I don't like it.

[push-the-limits.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's like the store I work at not taking debit or credit cards because of the bank fees. It pisses off a lot of people, (usually the ones that are too dumb to read the sign on the door) but most everyone doesn't mind, because it DOES keep our prices down. We're the cheapest in the valley.

I like having all of the paid features, so I'd just buy the whole thing. I don't think $25/year is bad, that's like, $2.08/month. I usually just fork it over with my tax return, along with everything else I pay for once a year.