The original post: /r/usenet by /u/the_mojonaut on 2024-10-12 11:19:21.

I’ve been with Easynews for 14+ years and seen the price rise to $11.99 pm. As a very infrequent Usenet user I decided to cancel.

Within a few days I got a renewed ‘special offer’ to remain for $4.99 pm + 3 months free, the email said they had been ‘allowed’ to offer me this as I was a long term user. I ignored that and a few days later was offered a one-off special 24 hours price of $1.99 pm which I also ignored.

I keep receiving these $1.99 offers occasionally and wondered if this is usual practice amongst other service providers.

I should add Easynews service was always great (which is why I never switched) and I never had any issues, it was just the pricing which finally went outside my budget and I was using it less and less.