1fichier

[palo5]

Originally Posted by Jenny48549

Instead, they sell 1 year premium accounts for 10 euros..... that's ridiculously cheap if you can find a payment option that works for you.

Agreed, that is insanely cheap compared with others. I subscribed for a year, and they say my links will that long even if no one downloads

Even my weak income can handle that

[Meini Again]

My theory is that...after the demise of Rapidshare, the remaining and un-targeted hosters had free reign and they exploited it.
Some of us..I know I have been... are 'indirectly' advised to take Premium Accounts out on some of those dinosuaor sites, instead of waiting to download One Gig in 4 days...

If you don't want to get timed out, if your family don't want to use the PC and so on. It may be a consideration.
Basically, I'm thinking that not only myself has been 'advised' to go premium on other hosters...so...what is the crack here?

Do other Hoster's pay Uploaders in some manner.... points, presents, Christmas in St Tropez?

Because, as I said before, if our community is a genuine "Sharing" community, then we shouldn't get advice to take out Premium Accounts from very good uploaders to Hosters that barely, if ever! deliver for a Free User.
That's the Carrot and Stick argument.......except the Carrot nowadays is vastly more expensive than RS ever was.

I was a Premium Account holder on Rapidshare, for 7/8 years, mainly because it was the Hoster of choice on here from the majority of uploaders...... Going back to the glory days of Tarnwood and his multi-uploads for us 56k modem users ....

So I'm not being impecunious.

I know Hosting Services are a business, but the service they give for Free Users is abysmal imo.

I've only ever uploaded a few pics and clips {via RS} and every one was wrong somehow and got removed I probably just need someone to come round and show me how to upload properly...and retrieve my archives from before we went down...all on my HD of broken PCs and Laptops.

And I'd upload every single thing to 1Filchier, because I think they are mental.

2.75 MB per second for a free user

If they don't go bankrupt, it proves that we are being ripped-off by the other Hosting Services.
I won't name them, but 2 Hosters, that hold "Holy Grail" items {for me} I have always been timed-out on as a free user...I'm not going to pay a year's subscription for 2/3 HG films..it will be easier to get them, and cheaper to pay..elsewhere.

Unless 1filchier gets them....

[bigbobnobody]

As Meini said, file hosters are in business to make money. The way the various
different companies use their strategies to make that money are often quite
different. Although virtually 100% of them offer premium services, who they
are trying to sell them to aren't always the same. The overall majority of them,
seem to me to be trying to "entice" downloaders of their files, to purchase
a premium subscription, so as to increase their download speeds which of
course would make their downloads finish faster. A very aggravating thing
to a great many downloaders I'm sure. 1filchier, and a very few others, seem
to have chosen the opposite side to go after for premium plans........uploaders
.......of which there are quite a number less than downloaders overall. This is
done by limiting storage limits to smaller amounts along with uploaded files
not lasting very long before being deleted.

So, which is better/which is worse, all depends on which side of the
upload/download room you stand on. One can't exist without the other.
One fact that remains.......regardless of a business in hosting uploaded
files, or shoveling horse shit.......if that business isn't making money, it
won't be in business long.

[bigbobnobody]

Originally Posted by palo5

Agreed, that is insanely cheap compared with others. I subscribed for a year, and they say my links will that long even if no one downloads

Even my weak income can handle that

That doesn't really jive with what it says on 1fichier's site.
The reason I say that, is what you get for 10 Euros, for 1 year, is alot
less than what you get for 30 Euros for 1 year. For 10 Euros, (premium
access) files are deleted 60 days after not being downloaded, as opposed
to 30 Euros with the premium plan, and no deletions as long as that plan
is retained. Just a heads up, in case you think you paid for one thing and
got another.

https://1fichier.com/tarifs.html

[palo5]

Originally Posted by bigbobnobody

That doesn't really jive with what it says on 1fichier's site.

It's what they said in the special offer I subscribed to

[augispr]

Hey guys,
somehow lost time track on my premium - it's expired today.
Any suggestions for Premium buying with Paypal or other safe methods these days?
All the resellers listed on 1fichier site don't look too trusty to me
Thanks in advance!

[BCFC_1982]

Can you not see the credit card option?

[Jenny48549]

Originally Posted by BCFC_1982

Can you not see the credit card option?

From some unknown reason, they do not offer a credit card option to us folks here in the good old USA

[augispr]

Yes,but I'm not too comfi to provide my CC info for some shady sites based in India..if you know what I mean
I will use that option a s a last resort.
Thanks for the reply!

[BCFC_1982]

Thought they were French....have done 3 transactions without issue.