A simple open question: what web services do you pay for online?<p>My answers are:
- Flickr: I have a pro account… $24.95/year.
- eBay: I have sold items on eBay, thus I pay them listing fees and a % of final sale. This has only been a couple dollars over many years of eBay usage.
- Akismet: This is the anti-comment-spam service from Automattic. Based on my level of usage, I don’t have to pay for it, but I do anyway. I’ll likely stop paying for it now that I have switched to Disqus. I believe it was $5/month.
- Dreamhost: They host my blog, in addition to a number of sites and email accounts I manage in a consulting gig for a little income on the side. It costs about $10/month.
- NetFlix: I consider this a web service because the majority of my NetFlix consumption comes through their new online streaming offerings. Cost is $13.99/month.
- Skype: I don’t have a Skype Pro account, but I do pay for SkypeOut minutes. It’s a heck of a lot cheaper than getting a landline. I spend about $3/month in SkypeOut calls.<p>What about you?
Skype to phone girlfriend. My own servers. If a friend launches a paid service, I'll usually try it out. Used to do usenet.<p>For non-tangibles, I usually only pay when I'm getting a personal service through the internet.<p>Being persistently broke though, I'm probably a bad datapoint.
<a href="http://whitehouse.gov" rel="nofollow">http://whitehouse.gov</a>. I think we're all are being invoiced $80,000 for the last eight years or so. /political-snipe aside, I pay for online web hosting, netflix and little else.