Pumpuynarak Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 I've recently received my Nord VPN renewal billing and i believe its increased by a substantial amount. I've gone from my 2 year plan to a 1 year plan not by my choice but by them no longer offering me a 1 year plan. My plan is the standard Nord VPN. Now from memory 2 years ago i paid something like the same cost that they are now proposing i pay for their 1 year plan. Here's the email they sent me..... Your NordVPN subscription will be renewed You will be billed by an automatic payment in 30 days unless you cancel before the payment is charged. Otherwise, no action is required. Note: you will be billed the current standard price of £83.88 plus £5.87 additional tax* (£89.75 in total) for the 1-year plan of NordVPN. Your current subscription expires on April 29th, 2023. * Sales tax, VAT, GST/PST, or other mandatory tax applicable in your country of purchase Anyone else have a similar experience ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumpuynarak Posted April 9, 2023 Author Share Posted April 9, 2023 Here's the reply i received from them when i queried it....... NordVPN (NordVPN) Apr 8, 2023, 03:47 GMT+3 Hello, Thank you for reaching out to us. Over the past few years, NordVPN grew a lot: we implemented the super-fast NordLynx tunneling solution, upgraded to diskless servers, and introduced 10Gbps servers as well as server colocation (more info in our blog: https://nordvpn.com/blog/nordvpn-colocated-servers/). Our costs grew with these upgrades, and that led to the price change. We hope to continue innovating and bringing a great experience to our users at a fair price. That being said, after the end of your initial plan, your subscription will be automatically renewed, and you will be charged the then-current price of the service. If any changes will be implemented to your current plan, we will inform you via email in advance. For more information, read our Terms of Services. You can also see the renewal pricing on our other products, including NordVPN here: https://my.nordaccount.com/legal/pricing/ If the renewal pricing does not meet your liking, you are able to manually choose the subscription plan according to your preference by purchasing a subscription from our official website at nordvpn.com/pricing/ Let us know if you have any additional questions. Best Regards, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Woof999 Posted April 9, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted April 9, 2023 Same as shopping for insurance. New customers get the best deals. Change provider to one of the many others that advertise all over YouTube (eg SurfShark) or one of the others (eg. HMA). Change every year if you need to. They all offer fundamentally the same service, often on the same infrastructure. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunBENQ Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Woof999 said: Same as shopping for insurance. New customers get the best deals. Just checked what they offer for new customers (Chrome incognito window). 2 year plan plus 3 months for 161 USD. Comes out at 5.99 USD/month (plus tax if applicable). about 4.8 GBP/month. Check what they offer for new sub in GBP (Pound). If cheaper let subscription expire and use another account/email to order the 2 year plan. But indeed it has become more expensive. My current 2yr plan is about 3 Euro/month. Just thinking whether involving a proxy (friend at home country or elsewhere) could get best price. It's just buying some login data for money. If the Dollar price is best you could use a credit card to order and pay in Dollar? Edited April 9, 2023 by KhunBENQ 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Alotoftravel Posted April 9, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted April 9, 2023 Could you let it expire and then sign up for the better price . I don’t think they would refuse the new sign up . 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunBENQ Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 2 minutes ago, Alotoftravel said: Could you let it expire and then sign up for the better price . I don’t think they would refuse the new sign up . As described that works (maybe use another email). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caldera Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 23 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said: Just thinking whether involving a proxy (friend at home country or elsewhere) could get best price. That's marvelous, using a proxy to get the best price for a VPN subscription. ???? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myran Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 Just change to something that gives you more for the money. My recommendation would be Cyberghost. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayClay Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 I don't know if this is common practice in the industry, but my VPN provider (not Nord) offered me 2 months for free when I tried to cancel. They also then followed up and asked me how much I'd be willing to pay for a year of use. I gave a figure of around 1500bt, and the next day I got an email saying that they were able to offer me a year of service for about 1200bt. I don't know if they did that based on the fact that I hardly use the service, or they just always offer every customer a price a little lower than the customer specifies. If they're still doing the same thing this year I'll try offering 500bt! Anyway, it's worth a try cancelling with Nord, and see if they have a similar practice. You can always sign up again if they don't take the bait. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NextG Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 Switch off auto-renewal. Buy a new package. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HauptmannUK Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 I just renewed and was charged about US$88 for 2 years + 3 'free' months..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gargamon Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 My nordvpn expires end of this month. I do not have auto renewal turned on. I receive an email every few days with an enticing low cost. So if you want offers you need to turn off auto renewal. That said, I will not be renewing nordvpn as their services are somewhat lacking when doing torrents, specifically no port forwarding. I don't use torrents much, but older, poorly populated torrents tend to be unattainable with nordvpn turned on but work fine with it off. This is due to the lack of port forwarding. There's a list of VPN providers here that show capabilities: https://torrentfreak.com/best-vpn-anonymous-no-logging/ I've begun narrowing down my list but have a few weeks so can't report my decision yet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
still kicking Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 Why does anybody need an VPN 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDave Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 2 hours ago, HauptmannUK said: I just renewed and was charged about US$88 for 2 years + 3 'free' months..... Looks like you got a good deal. I (stupidly) had auto-renew turned on, and was billed US$99 for 1 year without any advance notice. Auto-renew is now turned off, and I'll let it expire next year. Rakuten routinely gives a 40% rebate on new NordVPN subscriptions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumpuynarak Posted April 10, 2023 Author Share Posted April 10, 2023 8 hours ago, NextG said: Switch off auto-renewal. Buy a new package. Thats exactly what i looked at doing and low and behold the first example you show the 2 year plan at $3.29 when clicked on reverts to a 1 year plan, go figure...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumpuynarak Posted April 10, 2023 Author Share Posted April 10, 2023 When i go to ''Manage Plan'' on my account where the option to turn off auto renew lies i get the following offer appearing...... Limited offer NordVPN 1-year plan+ 18 months free Offer automatically activated when your current plan ends Subscription will start on April 29, 2023 No payment taken today – you'll pay 14 days before your new subscription starts $3.30/mo$99.00 billed for 30 months Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayClay Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 (edited) 8 hours ago, still kicking said: Why does anybody need an VPN The usual reason people on this forum need a VPN is to circumvent geo-location restrictions when attempting to access particular media streaming services. Edited April 10, 2023 by JayClay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longwood50 Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 I gave up on Nord. It did raise its cost but also whenever I was using it, the internet speed slowed down to a crawl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossy Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 I just went and checked my latest renewal from Ivacy, still 42 USD for TWO years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumpuynarak Posted April 11, 2023 Author Share Posted April 11, 2023 23 hours ago, Pumpuynarak said: When i go to ''Manage Plan'' on my account where the option to turn off auto renew lies i get the following offer appearing...... Limited offer NordVPN 1-year plan+ 18 months free Offer automatically activated when your current plan ends Subscription will start on April 29, 2023 No payment taken today – you'll pay 14 days before your new subscription starts $3.30/mo$99.00 billed for 30 months I've just realised how can it be a 1 year plan with 18 months free if they are charging you $3.30/month and billing you for the entire 30 months at commencement = $99.00 or have i missed something ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NextG Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 (edited) On 4/10/2023 at 8:47 AM, Pumpuynarak said: Thats exactly what i looked at doing and low and behold the first example you show the 2 year plan at $3.29 when clicked on reverts to a 1 year plan, go figure...... That’s because you didn’t sign out of your current account beforehand ???? Either way, they seem to have offered you a more realistic price of 2.5 years for US$99. They’ll either take US$99 in one go and nothing else for 30 months or take US$3.30 per month for 30 months. Edited April 11, 2023 by NextG 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scubascuba3 Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 On 4/10/2023 at 3:19 AM, still kicking said: Why does anybody need an VPN Probably porn 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammieuk1 Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 Go free and stuff the bills ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunHeineken Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 On 4/9/2023 at 8:19 PM, still kicking said: Why does anybody need an VPN Have you never come across a geo blocked website? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayClay Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 On 4/11/2023 at 2:56 AM, Pumpuynarak said: I've just realised how can it be a 1 year plan with 18 months free if they are charging you $3.30/month and billing you for the entire 30 months at commencement = $99.00 or have i missed something ? It's just marketing speak isn't it? You must have seen the same bowlspit all over the internet? $99 dollars is "the price" for a full year. Pay $99 and then get an extra 18 months "free". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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