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A new era for LWN - Please offer yearly lump sum subscriptions!A new era for LWN - Please offer yearly lump sum subscriptions!Posted Oct 1, 2002 0:00 UTC (Tue) by pgoetz (subscriber, #4931)Parent article: A new era for LWN I understand your desire to "not charge people for services they haven't received" in case LWN goes out of business, but I think you're making a serious mistake by not offering the option of paying for an entire year at once. Never mind the annoyance of having a $5 charge on my credit card every month. (I would select a lump sum payment for this reason alone). A more serious issue is that I can't get reimbursed by my company given this payment structure. If I paid a single $60 for one year and got an invoice, I would take it to my local bean-counter and get a crisp new $60 electronic transfer at the end of the month. As it is, it's simply not worth the bother of going through the paperwork to get $5 reimbursements every month. For this reason, I'm 100% certain you're actually costing yourself subscriptions by not offering a lump sum payment option! As cynical as this might sound, people are a lot more relaxed when spending the boss's money and might not even be losing sleep over the fact that they won't get their full value out of a year's subscription. Please reconsider this ill-advised decision, as I've been reading LWN for a long time and would like to see you all stick around.
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A new era for LWN - Please offer yearly lump sum subscriptions! Posted Oct 1, 2002 14:47 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] But we do offer one-payment subscriptions. We just don't encourage them for the reasons I've outlined above. But if you want to pay in one shot, just select that option in the subscription process.
A new era for LWN - Please offer yearly lump sum subscriptions! Posted Oct 8, 2002 12:42 UTC (Tue) by ortalo (subscriber, #4654) [Link] I have been given access to the October 3 edition, and I'd be happyto extend it, but is it possible to "extend a subscription" for more than one month? As a non-US (european) reader, I suspect that my bank will charge some money for the euro/dollar currency exchange. I'd rather keep that cost low in proportion of the total subscription cost (whoever pays it: LWN.net or me :-). I'd really like to go to a 6 month or 12 month subscription extension.
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