As an Entrepreneur I use several Cloud Services which charge monthly fee for the service they provide.
Different subscriptions like basecamp,wufoo, blinksale, highrise, mailchimp , lynda, aws and these are just paid ones.
I spend few hours evaluating the product and most of them have amazing pricing plans where the mix is such that you will require to upgrade to next level only after you have certain amount of usage.
I am horrified by Pricing plans of Slideshare and how it is trying to extort money and Force me to upgrade to the more expensive plan without even me trying out the product !!
Following are pricing plans for subscription based service used by us and among the top services in their respective categories with thousands of paid users. :
Basecamp – Prices increase as number of projects increase
Wufoo – Pricing increase as Number of users or entries increase.
Blinksale – One plan. All benefits
Slide Share pricing Plan – Firstly I took 2 hours to just decide which plan to go for. But still not happy with what I am getting.
– Firstly 5 presentations a month !! Not sure if this means that next month I can upload 5 new presentations or I will have to go to 49$ for the 6th one over all.
– However the biggest issue is that Slide Share is forcing me to upgrade to new plan without even trying the product by not making available all features. All the services mentioned above do not force you to go to higher plan based on features but based on usage.
Slide Share is charging for lead capture but not making Geo Targeting available at 20 $ plan , I mean as Tekno Point my courses are relevant for audience in India , you are going to charge me for generating 30 leads , let them at-least be from the region I want !!!!
I find this really more of an extortion and not at all consumer friendly way of charging a customer.
If someone at slideshare is listening , Can you please check the fallout’s of users from your pricing page ? You have made the plans too complicated and unfair. I feel cheated by paying 19 USD.
Just because you have mentioned all details does not make you a fair player.
If you are entrepreneur planning to start a SaaS , please learn from this , this is exactly what you should not do with your customers.
If you know anyone from Slideshare , please share the link and will be happy to know their views on this ridiculous pricing plan.
