The ticky box I wanted to check would have said something like "Shouldn't be implemented, with changes."
There is already a system in place to "try out" a paid account: buy it for a month. $3 is nothing.
But what denise said about the fact that $3 is still a lot more than free is also true. Especially if you have to go through the whole process of setting up your billing info etc before you can actually spend the $3.
What if there were a system whereby upon buying the first month ever of paid time you received 2 months, and the $3 was fully refundable until the first month was over. This would add a little extra incentive to the idea of starting a paid account (two for one!) and reassure some of the wafflers that if they hate it they can easily send it back.
There would have to be a: a way to flag each account that they'd already received the free trial (to—as people have suggested—keep people from canceling on day 28 again and again), and b: a way to refund people's money, which I assume might already exist.
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There is already a system in place to "try out" a paid account: buy it for a month. $3 is nothing.
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What if there were a system whereby upon buying the first month ever of paid time you received 2 months, and the $3 was fully refundable until the first month was over. This would add a little extra incentive to the idea of starting a paid account (two for one!) and reassure some of the wafflers that if they hate it they can easily send it back.
There would have to be a: a way to flag each account that they'd already received the free trial (to—as people have suggested—keep people from canceling on day 28 again and again), and b: a way to refund people's money, which I assume might already exist.