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True, but would rather have an S3 bucket already setup and dont need to fuss about all other things involved with server management.
No way they can't change package properties after payment - they're an honest decent company. The only package title that's relevant to us is the one indicated in their email message after billing. Any mention elsewhere is just for display purposes (we're too few for them to bother with title differentiation for us).
Did someone tried o clarify this from their support ? 😬
I sent a mail.
Will see what they say.
I'd love to keep the 1 TB plan as a Free Forever plan
Not sure, if the title changes, it likely means that the specs of the product (i.e. renewal fee) become the same as the product with the "new" title.
Don't get excited and don't forget that is a free product - they can change the terms anytime.
As usual: make your backups and carry on
During the year and especially on BF there are offers by IONOS/Strato for 1TB "HiDrive" for 1euro (first year). If it's not the time of a "special offer" it's only 6 euros for the first year, so that's quite similar to the price here, but it's not S3 - but you can use rclone. Go here (website is in german): https://www.ionos.de/vorteilsangebote
TBH it would be a bummer if they change the conditions afterwards (that's just no handshake quality) and wouldn't look good, but well - I think they wouldn't care.. Funny that they promoted the offer themselves in their discord channel.
Nice bait, time to request cancellation at term
Yes, but after three days without any notification first isn't okay.
What's price showing up for renewal though after 1 year?
Stock is available at the moment. New price though.
There is no renewal price in the user management.
The 10€ setup fee and one year package is can be ordered again.. But well, IONOS is 6€/year (not n object storage and I hate non-recurring things..)
Description was changed as well from:
Ideal for people with personal or hobby projects that are not business-critical.
to
Ideal to test EuroStack, or just to use EuroStack for one year for free. Easy to upgrade your plan when you need more space.
It's not free, they charged your CC, it doesn't matter it's $1.20 or $120
and I doubt that European laws allow to change the terms of the agreement unilaterally after its conclusion
LET effects, we cannot have good things all the time
it is free, they charged only for the setup
If you paid it's not free in general
Yes, you paid for the setup which does not guarantee you anything about the product which is free in this case. You need to make the difference between the setup fee and the product fee.
Overcomplicating things to make more money is typical eastern European thinking.
In western European countries, we call a spade a spade.
And in some western European countries, the marketing laws are very strict. It is not legal to advertise something as free if the customer has to pay fees or give his acceptance to receive newsletters.
Another example: The product has not been advertise that it will be available only for the first year. Today, I can see that the name of the product has been changed to "EuroStack Free for a year version".
So the terms have been changed, right? Let's sue them...
No, only the name changed. See my screenshot above. There is no next due date so there's no need to renew.
Anyway, I'm not taking part of any side, it was just a heads-up so you don't cry later.
Have they confirmed to you that they don't cancel the service after one year?
Chargeback
No, but I trust that they would honor the previous deal. I don't want to waste my time asking them as I am swimming in storage so I could care less if it does expire in a year. It's a great deal even if it expires in a year. 1 euro for 1 TB bucket for a year is great.
Sue them!!!!
It is a great deal, but I need to know what happens when the year has gone.
And what if I buy other services. Will they break their terms again and change them too without any notification.
Their terms:
On Discord a responsible said this:
So, it's miscommunication now? OK.