And at trakt the betas literally cost 60$ a year. 
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so great, as i said multiple times you just paid 2,5$ shorten than trakt. Do people not get that ?
The difference might be that “sahara” bought Lifetime VIP; so $75 to Simkl just once, instead of $60 to Trakt every year.
(I do wonder how long Simkl can be profitable like this, but they did mention increasing Lifetime VIP prices in the near future)
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no he didn’t
also check the screenshot. But again i have said you can guarantee the lifetime on a site that now it is just getting users from trakt. So if trakt failed to honour the grandfather why not think or believe another site, smaller and less will not do the same as soon as they smell the money.
How do you conclude she/he didn’t?
(If they paid $75 that’s almost $149 divided by 2; not 2 x $34.99)
sorry confused, the screenshot , the post is pretty specific. it says VIP, the 75$ is for VIP and NOT for lifetime subscription, and he says VIP
I’m pretty sure that text is also displayed for people with “VIP Lifetime”…
(the part below, which is not in the screenshot, would give a definite answer)
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Until somewhat recently, Trakt was one of them. How the mighty fall!
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Lifetime VIP
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I have been Trakt vip member since 2017.
Can’t stand they’re increasing the subscription charges. Just cancelled the renewal due at August.
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What a long two weeks this has been. I stayed quiet, waiting for more in that time - but nothing. My renewal comes up on 21 June. I’ll let it lapse, thanks.
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after 11 year - i am gone as well 
Guess will try SIMKL as well. If anyone has an referral link, that would be awesome.
Thanks - now i have two.
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My biggest problem with this price increase, is - that I feel - like being blackmailed. Honestly feel like a hostage in this situation.
I’m not too used to pay VIP whenever I came, just to support someone or have a little badge, or some new features. I don’t need it.
I was using Trakt for 10 years, and for most of the time, I wouldn’t need any of the features. Something felt nice - like Year in Review, but I don’t exactly need that type of sentiment.
The only feature that bring me to VIP was LIST LIMIT, particularly Watchlist limit. Still - because I am a cinephile, and I’m proud of it - I have now 10 000 items in Watchlist and currently using a second list for it.
But sorry - but given a Notion and other ,more difficult options" to keep track of movies/shows, I still couldn’t justify paying - just for this - 60$ per year. That feels too much. And as I see how they knew - that people like me - will pay them for these lists, they keep changing the limits (last couple of years), which is not a good approach.
There are no unique features that would justify that. No even - features, that would make life simplier - like increasing limits on Notes (from 500 to 1000 at least).
They could start increasing slowly. Give some reasons, and go around 5 to 10$ increase this year, with some other increase in next years as well. But going double just like that… is a no-go.
TRAKT was a great place in last 10 years for me. But I don’t have an option to just cancel my subscription and stay as ordinary user, because the limits are just - unusable for me.
This is definitely a sad time.
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Not sure if this has already been suggested but would’ve preferred a tiered system instead of straight up doubling my price, I don’t use a lot of the newer VIP features & the price hike is too much to justify right now, luckily mine had just renewed before the announcement but this will be my last year as a VIP.
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I would highly recommend paying the full Lifetime price at Simkl, if you’re considering VIP and your wallet permits it.
Being a software developer myself, I know how big the effort is to pay for servers capable to handle so many requests (which a website like this has to make constantly). The $150 really isn’t much, considering it’s a one-time payment (2 and a half years of Trakt subscription, in other words) and I’m sure it will help the guys speed up the launch of the new features (like custom lists or the v2 API).
Not affiliated to Simkl in any way, been with Trakt for years. Jumped out of the boat and bought Lifetime VIP at Simkl. Full price.
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And the hits keep on coming. The new forum guidelines ban any mention of other services from now on
Someone is having a meltdown in the head office at the amount of folks leaving /canceling their VIP and this is the bizarre solution
Addressing a symptom rather than the cause has rarely been a successful strategy
Edit: Reddit trakt mods nuked my post about this on their sub, wonder how long this post will survive
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In case you guys didn’t see from the Rippple AMA thread they’re not communicating with us because they’re not “ready to.” Seriously.
And my god I just thought to check and they never tweeted about the price change!
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That’s odd, I’m guessing these other services are just giddy at the increase in mentions of Trakt on their discords and forums.
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let’s visit this thread in about a year to see how that site is holding up with all the new load and the things tha EVERYONE will be asking to implement cause they need a trakt clone. And see the prices at that point.
Hopefully, they’ll do well, as competition is healthy.Their two-tiered payment system is definitely a big plus for them.
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