Comment by d--b
5 months ago
I'll probably use your unattach service soon (gmail keeps bugging me about being 98% full).
Your pricing is a bit weird though. For a $9 subscription a year, I might as well upgrade my gmail storage to 100gb.
The pay-as-you-go is $0.01 per email, but I don't know how many emails with attachment I have in there. Gmail only tells me of "many". Could be tens of thousands... I have no idea...
I have 250 emails with attachment since June, so a bit less than 100 per month, and I 've had that inbox since 2004 ish. So conservatively, I have 1200 emails a year, so about 25k emails to clean up. So that would be a one time fee of $24. But perhaps much less because attachments were rarer back then.
But I could also pay a one year subscription. Only use it once to clean up the whole thing, and then cancel and come back the next time I need it, like in 5 years. But yeah, I don't really want to do that, cause I don't want to forget that it's a subscription...
What I would like is a usage-based price, that's based off the inbox size in gb and that's quite cheaper than upgrading my gmail.
So maybe cleaning 15gb for $15 would be great. Or maybe $2 for each gb that's freed (I wouldn't know how much exactly that would cost, but I know it'd less that $30).
I understand not wanting another subscription. You can subscribe and then immediately turn off auto-renewal — your access stays active for the full year you paid for.
On PAYG, you can target the largest emails first and stop whenever you've freed enough space. For example, processing 300 of the largest emails at $0.01 each is about $3; if they average around 10 MB, that's 3 GB freed.