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  • #3752
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,983 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123307252#Comment_123307252

    My girlfriend pays for my YouTube premium, Disney, Spotify, Netflix etc

    Before anyone says i should share the burden, I'm more a Sky Q, Bluray/VHS type of guy. There's enough blurays, VHS tapes and 2TB HDD on my Sky box to entertain me. I rarely use these services.

    I was listening to music a few months ago on the phone. Didn't I hear then "feels like a dream feels like magic" Temu advert.

    I queried her about it and she said yeah sometimes she sees adverts.

    For a couple of weeks it was fine again. Then Tuesday there was a 90+ second row of ads that weren't skip-able.

    If you Google "YouTube premium showing ads" it will show you a load of reddit and Google forum complaints about this. I reckon they are selling ad space at a premium and targeting paid subscribers intentionally. When you complain to them they claim logging in and out will solve the issue, but i bet they don't compensate those who have seen ads.

    I can't complain personally as I'm getting it free.



  • #3753
    dulpit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,954 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123324761#Comment_123324761

    I'd say Google targeting subscribers deliberately is just nonsense. I've been on YouTube premium for years now, it happens super rarely that ads appear. Maybe once a year, if even.

    I've had similar happen for games that I have subscription for too, very rarely an ad will sneak in. Just shows their default is show ads, and premium removes it.



  • #3754
    Simi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,059 ✭✭✭Simi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123324569#Comment_123324569

    Wow that's a huge increase, almost 2x the Polish rise in percentage terms



  • #3755
    TheDriver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,974 ✭✭✭✭TheDriver


    Utter greed. I wonder where it'll just be too expensive, like disney and netflix.

    The only thing making it okish is that youtube music is included and not far off spotify.



  • #3756
    muloc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭muloc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123324381#Comment_123324381

    Has Turkey price gone up?



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  • #3757
    54and56
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,045 ✭✭✭54and56


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123325191#Comment_123325191

    Well that's one way to look at it. Pricing is a tricky issue to navigate. All businesses want to maximise revenue and ultimately profitability but there's always a trade off between having a high volume of users at a low price and fewer users at a higher price as some users get priced away from the service. Happened to me with Sky a few years ago. They pushed another €10 monthly increase and I just decided it wasn't worth it at all so terminated my account, installed free to air satelite and haven't regretted it.

    I recall an Economics lecturer simplifying the pricing decision as follows:

    "Never charge less than someone is prepared to pay"

    Netflix are finding out how much people are actually prepared to pay. They will keep pushing pricing up until the marginal increase in revenue from price increases is less than the lost revenue from subscribers ceasing to use the service. Then and only then they'll have found the optimum price.



  • #3758
    ECookie13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 886 ✭✭✭ECookie13


    This has turned into whack a mole with pricing, every cheap country rises every few months. Not worth the hassle nearly I think.



  • #3759
    Fabio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,299 ✭✭✭Fabio


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123324569#Comment_123324569

    Not far off Poland prices.



  • #3760
    Nigzcurran
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,886 ✭✭✭Nigzcurran


    Getting to the point where I think I'll have to dump the family plan and just go for the individual one to keep the brat happy as he lives on you tube so definitely needs it. The rest of the family members are just bumming along for free for the last few years so they'll have to figure something else out

    Time is contagious, everybody's getting old.



  • #3761
    Romero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭Romero


    Got the Poland increase this morning going hold off pressing the accept button until the April charge goes through next Friday



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  • #3762
    Del007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭Del007


    Romanis is €11, got charged yesterday



  • #3763
    thos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭thos


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123319187#Comment_123319187

    I signed up for Poland but then got “Your YouTube Premium membership was canceled because we believe the signup country of Poland was inaccurate.”

    Where did I go wrong?

    I had been using Peru or somewhere before that



  • #3764
    feargantae
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭feargantae


    Lads I'm finally after getting the cancellation email.

    What's the current best sign up country? Is it still Poland/Romania?



  • #3765
    ooter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭ooter


    Kazakhstan working well for me for a few months now, usually just over €5 a month for an individual subscription



  • #3766
    feargantae
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭feargantae


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123412016#Comment_123412016

    With a normal card?



  • #3767
    ooter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭ooter


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123412099#Comment_123412099

    Revolut.



  • #3768
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,584 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Been on an Argentina Sub for the past 7 years or so. Got the emails from youtube a few time over the past few months (since first outlined here) but have left things as they are without any issues with service. Another email in this week so will see what happens over the coming weeks.

    At this point though, I use YouTube so much I don't think I'd be too bothered paying the Irish sub as I've had it cheap for 7 + years or so as I use it for music also.



  • #3769
    Nollog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,867 ✭✭✭Nollog


    Anyone know much premium costs in malta?

    I don't have that country in my vpn accounts, but one of my cards is issued there, wondering of it's any cheaper.



  • #3770
    feargantae
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭feargantae


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123413582#Comment_123413582

    Have you gotten the email to say your sub will be cancelled or just the one to say to update payment method?

    My account is being cancelled is about a week so I'm scrambling to sort it!



  • #3771
    feargantae
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭feargantae


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123413620#Comment_123413620

    €6 for Student

    €10 for Individual

    €17 for Family



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  • #3772
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,584 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123413708#Comment_123413708

    Same email I got in October asking me to update my payment method. I'll let it slide and see what happens.



  • #3773
    feargantae
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭feargantae


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123414223#Comment_123414223

    You'll be grand so. It's the email saying your sub is after being cancelled and you can renew if ye want that you've to watch out for!



  • #3774
    copper04
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 153 ✭✭copper04


    With Ref.to Ypoutube Premium ussing the iTunes/Turkey method.

    Can one use your existing you tube account (Being Kicked out on 12th May)

    or do you need a Turkish account via VPN. I have 200TRy itunes to try it out.

    Im old and I'm confused on that point. New Youtube account or existing one ???

    Thanks



  • #3775
    ongarite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭ongarite


    You can use existing YouTube/Google account.

    Your new Turkey Apple id is separate from your YouTube account. Sign in to Apple account on iPhone. Add credit though App Store.

    Either cancel now or wait for YT Premium to expire. Then sign up through YT on iPhone which should be in lira.

    Once successfully signed up, you can login back with your main Apple id account



  • #3776
    shmeee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,979 ✭✭✭✭shmeee


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123413710#Comment_123413710

    UAE (Dubai) €12 per month for family. Working away via Revoult.



  • #3777
    Keith186
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,252 ✭✭✭Keith186


    Got the cancellation email for Poland family last night. No reason given but I did open a ticket with Google for completely non related query, not sure if someone looked into it then as email came a few hours after the ticket reply.



  • #3778
    SlipperyPeople
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭SlipperyPeople


    guy on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/PremiumOnABudget/ appears to be offering family plan access for 27 euro for the year

    https://premiumonabudget.notion.site/af3479qfhut



  • #3779
    Del007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭Del007


    I got the email as well, I'm using Romania



  • #3780
    _John C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 458 ✭✭_John C


    Had to move from Turkey to Peru in December, all went well and was working fine. But I got an email

    Post edited by _John C on


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  • #3781
    TheDriver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,974 ✭✭✭✭TheDriver


    Got the peru email too. Took all of 60s to resign up to Romania.



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