Rapidshare updates to Rapids

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As of June 29, 2010, RapidShare is changing its product and payment models. In future, the costs for RapidShare accounts will no longer be tiered according to time period; instead there will be five packages with differing features. These packages will be paid for with a new currency known as "Rapids". In order to grant our customers maximum flexibility when choosing the type of package, they will be able to switch between packages on a daily basis and hence select the features that suit them best at the time.
All previous Collector's accounts will be automatically converted into free Premium accounts on July 1, 2010, thus making it still possible to use the RapidShare service without charge.

What is actually changing: pricing model
RapidShare is launching a new currency: Rapids. This will allow users to take up various packages from June 29, 2010.
Rapids can be acquired in the following increments:


Prepaid funds
400 Rapids € 4,99
1.000 Rapids € 9,95
2.000 Rapids € 19,90
5.000 Rapids € 49,75
20.000 Rapids € 199,00


Many users will already have Rapids in their accounts from the start as both the remaining days in existing Premium accounts and unused traffic share will be converted automatically into Rapids. For each remaining day, the user will be credited with 20 Rapids. For example, if there are 10 days left in a Premium account, the user will receive 200 Rapids. Each GB of traffic share will be converted into 5 Rapids.
Any accumulated Free- and Premium-RapidPoints can also be converted into Rapids until July 6, 2010. Altogether, 5,000 Free-RapidPoints and 5,000 Premium-RapidPoints equate to 600 Rapids; 50,000 Free-RapidPoints and 50,000 Premium-RapidPoints will give 6,000 Rapids.
A maximum of 50,000 Rapids can be obtained by converting existing RapidPoints, traffic share or the remaining time on a Premium account.

What is actually changing: product model
These modifications will not change anything for Free Users. Owners of previous Collector's accounts will receive free Premium accounts, enabling them to manage their uploaded files in the Premium Zone. Downloading and storing are just the same as for the previous Collector's account.
Users who have Rapids can choose from five types of fee-paying package. What is special about these packages is that every user can turn the features off and on to suit their needs from day to day. In this way, we hope to offer our customers an even better service and, above all, much more flexibility than before.

Overview of fee-paying packages:
Name Price / day Storage Traffic / day Filemanagement Directdownload Foldermanagement Verification Licence Manager Licence Manager+
RapidSmall 4 Rapids 10 GB 1 GB x x
RapidMedium 20 Rapids 50 GB 5 GB x x x
RapidBig 78 Rapids 200 GB 20 GB x x x x
RapidSupersize 229 Rapids 600 GB 60 GB x x x x x
RapidBusiness 449 Rapids 1200 GB 120 GB x x x x x x


•RapidSmall For the RapidSmall package, users pay 4 Rapids a day. This gives them 10 GB of secured storage and a daily traffic volume of 1 GB. What's more, they can take advantage of file management and direct download features.
•RapidMedium Those who opt for the RapidMedium deal get, in exchange for 20 Rapids a day, 50 GB of secured storage and a daily traffic volume of 5 GB. In addition to file management and direct downloads, users will be able to manage their data in folders.
•RapidBig Holders of RapidBig accounts have access to 200 GB of secured storage and a traffic limit of 20 GB. Along with other RapidMedium features, in this version users will also be able to have their account verified. The RapidBig package costs 78 Rapids a day.
•RapidSupersize With the RapidSupersize account, users receive 600 GB of secured storage and 60 GB of daily traffic in return for 229 Rapids a day. As an added feature, users will have the ability to sell their own files via the Licence Manager.
•RapidBusiness With RapidBusiness, commercial customers benefit from being able to store and grant others access to even greater quantities of data for 449 Rapids a day. In addition to the features of the RapidSupersize deal, customers will have access to Licence Manager+.
Plus, business customers can receive targeted offers on request.
If users load their account with Rapids through payment or by converting RapidPoints, Traffic or remaining time, they will be set up with the smallest package (RapidSmall), with the option to upgrade at any time.
All features of the new model will be explained in further detail on June 29, 2010 on rapidshare.com.
 
Anyone know where this leaves people with paid up accounts, will it be better for us?
 
If you have a paid account, each paid up day will give you a credit of 20 rapids (worth 5gigs of download in a day). I am thinking that it may actually be better value if you don't download over a gig in a day as that only costs 4 rapids.
 
Ya, thats what i got out of it. I think you can also upgrade to any package as you need it, so if you need to pull 30gigs in a day, you can just upgrade the account for the day. They should just give you x amount of gigs and you can use it as you please. Or just unlimit our accounts :)

The 4 rapids account will be great for the peeps with 384k as they cant download the 5gigs per day allocated atm
 
ok, so it's changed from a TIME-Based system, to a "Credit-based" system, where we get deducted 4 rapids for each Gig?

if so then Cool!

so it won't expire in a month if you recently bought a 1-month account?
 
Better for downloaders, but worse for uploaders. They'll loose a lot of customers when their converted Rapids run out.
 
this means 50 rand will last us south africans a year LOL
 
Could be worse for downloaders too - if the download value daily does not accumulate - before one could accumulate to 25gb. Now, I wonder if it expires daily?
 
Aharon said:
Could be worse for downloaders too - if the download value daily does not accumulate - before one could accumulate to 25gb. Now, I wonder if it expires daily?
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i think it works like this - your account is converted into rapids, depending on how many days you have left.

you can download as much as you want per day, as it just subtracts 4 rapids for each gig you use.


am I right?
 
Clock is ticking to the 29th and then hopefully we'll know for sure :)
 
Keeper said:
you can download as much as you want per day, as it just subtracts 4 rapids for each gig you use.

am I right?
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Nope, the way I read it is that you pay X amount of X amount of rapids. For X amount of rapids you get a download cap per day which you can switch (lowe to higher package). When your Rapids are done, you buy more. My verdict. It looks like utter bull****, but we'll see. I start of with a measly 700 Rapids when we convert.

And no, account has no changes yet.
 
CorneN said:
Nope, the way I read it is that you pay X amount of X amount of rapids. For X amount of rapids you get a download cap per day which you can switch (lowe to higher package). When your Rapids are done, you buy more. My verdict. It looks like utter bull****, but we'll see. I start of with a measly 700 Rapids when we convert.

And no, account has no changes yet.
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ok well whether or not you can download more than 5 gb a day remains to be seen - but we are agreeing that it's not a "month to month" thing anymore, but credit based (rapids) - your account is done when you have no more credits

why wouldn't they want you to spend next weeks credits today I ask you - surely they want you to spend as much rapids as fast as possible?
 
Well, it's gone to a day to day thing now. Take this example.

If you are on a RapidSmall account you WILL get charged 4 Rapids and have a 1Gb cap per day. Should you iwsh to download something bigger, you can "up" your account status to RapidMedium account and get charged 20 Rapids per day. Once you are done for the day, you can "down" your account top RapidSmall for the following day. My problem with this is that it will take some serious account management and that's what RS is bargaining on. People will forget or just not bother to "down" their account.

So, you can look at it like this in Annual/Time terms:
5 Euros for a year subscription to RapidSmall with 1Gb cap per day
70 Eruos for a year subscription to Rapidmedium with 5Gb cap per day
and so forth...
Everyone is moving to Hotfile these days. I think i should do the same. X Amount for X time with UNLIMITED download. www.hotfile.com
 
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this is just waaaay too confusing......

i guess i just joined them at the wrong time - think i might be moving to hotfile too, if I find a good forum + links - otherwise it's megaupload for me
 
CorneN said:
Nope, the way I read it is that you pay X amount of X amount of rapids. For X amount of rapids you get a download cap per day which you can switch (lowe to higher package). When your Rapids are done, you buy more. My verdict. It looks like utter bull****, but we'll see. I start of with a measly 700 Rapids when we convert.

And no, account has no changes yet.
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agreed with your interpretation
 
My account has changed. I got an email stating that I had been automatically upgraded from a RapidSmall to a RapidMedium account because I had downloaded more than 1GB today. I'm approaching the 5GB in the next hour so we'll see what happens.
 
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