Marv Waschke: I agree as long as the members limit is lifted or a more affordable pricing introduced. My group is in the range of 2100 members, at the moment using 29 MB total storage out of 1GB. I

I don't see anything in Samuel's proposal that would change your current way of doing things. You are grandfathered in as a legacy Premium Group. That fact would not change unless you decided to

Whatever Mark decides, the pricing should be simple to administer. Today it is one billing per group. Increasing the number of billings will exponentially increase workload! KISS MKR

It's pointless to sit here and debate whose assumptions are correct. One of three things is true: Mark will implement his pricing changes on the 18th, or he won't, or he's still considering input. I'd

That would include Mark's, on asking for our input. Why would one do that unless the plan/proposal is merely a draft? -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy

Allow me to clarify the $2.50 (I have done so in the original mail, too). From Mark's new pricing structure I deduced that he would like to earn $0.55 per member per year. I assumed that most people

I wasn't going to say anything to my groups until this one person wrote to them giving out wrong information. You see not everyone understands what is being written and discussed. Many read what they

Feel free to join in: https://groups.io/g/GroupManagersForum/message/36333 Pete

I thought that was very clear as well. However, there are some comments here that seem to imply otherwise. Here's one: https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/27536 Mark, it would be helpful to hear

I must add that it has been suggestion by others (including Mark, I think) that there could be some future possibility of giving paid members extra benefits, but that is somewhere in the future, and

I have no idea how many additional tiers will be introduced by Mark in future, but my proposal does not introduce additional tiers into the groups themselves. It is not part of my suggestion that

Now you've got me wondering whether I should issue a pre-emptive reassurance to my members. I'm going to take this over to GMF. Pete

That person wrote to my group saying she was leaving and going over to MeWe and gave the link to her group there. She told my members she was leaving because Groups IO was going to be charging

I have to agree with Robert. Considering the amount of confusion that ensued after Mark's original post, I wouldn't consider saying anything to my members until I knew if, when, and exactly how they'd

I have also had a person leave for this very reason. I have not made any announcements to the group. This person left all io groups she had been in and wrote to say why. Barbara

If a change doesn't affect your group, why would you bother your group with this information until such time that it would? You're creating anxiety and panic for yourself and your group

Excuse me. Mark's "plan." However, everyone seems to be going off the deep end here proposing alternatives. So forgive me for weighing in. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author,

Ever since the Jan18th pricing increases were announced, one, two, three subscribers leave the list each day. Prior to the announcement of the price increases, one or two subscribers would leave each

My understanding of this is that the new fee schedule with limited members, will happen on the 18th and is NOT a proposal. This proposal for optional site memberships is totally separate and may or

What’s good about Drew’s is that the space doesn’t warp around groups. Member fees are completely independent of groups. The member is not paying to be in a particular group: they’re paying to