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How many of you are cruising on free trials?

Cyberpunkd

Member
I didn’t pay for a streaming service for like 2 years now, got Spotify a few times, YouTube Premium as well. Just activated Crunchyroll 60 days for free. I cancel immediately, ride it out then wait for another trial.
 

eddie4

Genuinely Generous
Nice try winrar
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Hrk69

Member
I used to with Spotify but it became a hassle honestly

Especially with playlists. I know you can share them/make them public but it was pretty annoying to set it up every month.
 
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poppabk

Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
90% of my subscriptions are on special deal rates, think HBOmax and Amazon are the only ones I pay full for. Going 1 or two months free is just a pain though.
 

Ownage

Member
I used to with Spotify but it became a hassle honestly

Especially with playlists. I know you can share them/make them public but it was pretty annoying to set it up every month.
Spotify sells gift cards on Amazon: 12 months of Premium for $99. This is much cheaper than paying per month. If you use Spotify as much as I do, this is the best deal for it (unless you get comp swag as a celebrity).
 

V1LÆM

Gold Member
Spotify sells gift cards on Amazon: 12 months of Premium for $99. This is much cheaper than paying per month. If you use Spotify as much as I do, this is the best deal for it (unless you get comp swag as a celebrity).
that's what i did. but spotify has gone to shit. i had it paid up to dec 25 and stopped using it. it was so bad that i was starting to hate listening to music.
 

Drew1440

Member
I got Amazon prime free for the next three months due to renewing my mobile contract, which is always handy around Christmas time.
that's what i did. but spotify has gone to shit. i had it paid up to dec 25 and stopped using it. it was so bad that i was starting to hate listening to music.
Both the desktop and mobile clients are buggy/slow Chrome-based slop, which is annoying when they had near perfect native clients that ran well until they rewrote them, because everything had to be done in a browser. The only selling point for Spotify now is the ability to cast to my AVR.
Even worse is if you try to use it in splitview on Android, and the album arts just cuts into the playback controls meaning you cannot quickly change the song or pause.
 

Ownage

Member
that's what i did. but spotify has gone to shit. i had it paid up to dec 25 and stopped using it. it was so bad that i was starting to hate listening to music.
I listen to my playlists. Some are almost 100h long. I also listen to some of the free audiobooks offered. They charge too much for paid audiobooks, so I found some cheap Audible coupon codes and downloaded all of Tom Clancy's portfolio. Am set for a few months. BTW, Jack Ryan Jr. is kinda lame, but I'm giving him a chance.
 

Cyberpunkd

Member
I used to with Spotify but it became a hassle honestly

Especially with playlists. I know you can share them/make them public but it was pretty annoying to set it up every month.
I guess this is the main reason people subscribe. I really don’t care, I have them wiped out each time, next time I subscribe I just browse a random plays list for piano or running and press play.
 

Quasicat

Member
I dont have the time to binge watch a show so I don’t do too many free trials. Instead, I get the ad free version and spend a month recording everything I want to watch; then I cancel it and throw it up on Plex and enjoy it at my leisure over the next year.
 

Dural

Member
I've been resetting the Sirius/XM trial in my car every 3 months so I can listen to Phlash Phelps in the morning. I would pay for it if I could get it for $2.99/month, but that deal wouldn't work for my car.
 

IntentionalPun

Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Same.

Glances at GAF gold membership
I should probably get that app that detects all the memberships you have.

I know I don’t have multiple subs to anything, that’s just absurd, but there are probably some I totally forgot existed.

Too lazy to go through my bank statements. Money go brrrrrrrr
 

Roxkis_ii

Banned
I do this with Amazon prime.
I just wishlist a bunch of stuff until I can get a trial.

Not free, but I'm sad I missed the $1 gamepass deal. I would have used it to just get that free skin bundle on overwatch and canceled.
 
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