Playing More of Your Favorites With Fewer Commercials
May 19th, 2010 - 9:24 am
Bonus Trifecta: Scott Ott, Bill Whittle and I take your questions! And leave more questions in the comments, and we’ll get to them next week.
It’s an exclusive for PJTV members, but it’s cheap to join — just five bucks a month.
Just a personal, sample-size-one anecdote… I’ve considered joining PJTV, and decided not to. I just hate monthly subscriptions, especially in tiny amounts. I hate auto-renewals; as I have better things to do than manage them.
I don’t want to have to deal with tiny little $5 charges cluttering up my AmEx bill. I don’t want to subscribe to something, be disappointed, and then take six months to get around to going through the hassle of canceling a subscription. And therefore, I don’t.
I’d pay $60 bucks a year (with no automatic re-billing) to try it, which is a better deal for everyone involved – PJTV gets a guaranteed subscriber for a year, a bigger cut of the $60 because they’re paying a much smaller transaction / processing fee, and I don’t have to deal with micropayments and microhassles.
But, of course, this system comes courtesy of the business geniuses that use an “opt-out” e-mail subscription every time you post. If they’re that willing to show this sort of glaring disrespect towards the people who interact with their site (obviously, they have some serious contempt for their readers), why on earth would I want to let them charge my credit card over and over and over? I can just envision the AOL / health club-like unsubscribe process that involves me canceling my credit card and getting a new number.
Just my $.02.
I’m a $15 a month subscriber, but I would go for the idea of an annual fee, too, if that were an option.
And the subscriber-only material is very much worth the coin, and getting better all the time, Evil Red.
Mr. Green! Instead of calling the members-only Trifecta episodes “MemberFecta,” how about “TribeFecta”?
I am feeling enormously clever for thinking of this (and am probably not the first to mention it.)
I second kathy’s comment. I’d also like it if I could use PayPal.
Thank you.
“I joined PJTV and all I got was this lousy sense of entitlement”