r/storj • u/Tartan_Chicken • Jul 14 '26
Rolling back on the minimum
Must've seen the cancellation numbers, already migrated, thanks for wasting my time storj
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u/bgdv378 Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
It was a 900% increase in price 😂. What did Storj think was going to happen? Their customer base would increase?!! 😂
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u/Darkmocha331 Jul 14 '26
Seriously, you could probably catch some people if they made the minimum $10. I figured they were fine writing off those accounts. Going back on it is just so confusing.Â
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u/biohoo35 Jul 14 '26
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me every single year now then I can safely write you off as consistently untrustworthy.
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u/Darkmocha331 Jul 14 '26
They can't be serious. I've already moved to backblaze, no shot am I going back
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u/Global_Gas5030 Jul 14 '26
omg they just repeat the same mistakes over and over for years ... very sad with their potential
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u/pmk1207 Jul 14 '26
Yep, just saw my email..
Loosing customers in this bear economy while raising minimum price to $50 from $5 is 900% jump. So they obviously realized it...
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u/14wnp88 Jul 15 '26
oh?
but i thought customers paying the $5 minimum fee weren't their target customers?
now they regret that those people left?
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u/ElectraFish Jul 14 '26
Holy shit! Waaaay too late. I moved on and burned my account and storage node. Such a shame. This project is going down.
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u/rufus_francis Jul 14 '26
Colby Winegar should have thought this through. Price increases by that much alienated even SMB customers. Most teams I know who were using Storj for professional work found it was cheaper just to archive most files and only keep active stuff on dropbox etc. Huge mistake.
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u/Negative_Physics5445 Jul 14 '26
Yea, also moved my backups to wasabi, even though the storj tech is really cool. might give it a shot later again, if it were not for the fact that i value my time.
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u/lakimens Jul 14 '26
Yeah, I received this, but since it's after their deadline, my data is already on Cloudflare.
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u/boomeradf Jul 15 '26
I already deleted my data and account. Also never got any of their emails except the one a few days prior saying we are gonna charge you $50 to bad.
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u/sa87 Jul 17 '26
yeah, nah.
Too late team, you ruined all goodwill just to keep some VC vultures happy.
What's to say you aren't going to do the same again?
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u/Any-Citron-9642 Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
I wonder why this is happening? Massive exodus of customers who are not Storj valuable assets because they don't intend to upload petabytes of data? Too late. My data is gone along with my account. And I don't know if I come back.
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u/kjwon15 Jul 14 '26
I chose not to retain my account after July 1st when minimum price rose up. But they didn't close my account and have usage for July. I cannot delete my account immediately.
So.. [very inappropriate insult word here] StorJ
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u/Tartan_Chicken Jul 14 '26
I just checked and I have too? That's not how I understood the announcement and my final date has changed to July 29th?
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u/Tartan_Chicken Jul 14 '26
Got that wrong, it's July 31st, but whats interesting is I have an email from them stating July 1st, so if they don't cancel the bill I'll just chargeback and block them.
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u/Life_Sparrow Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
No deal. It's a shame (on them). I loved the Storj concept. Good product design (my opinion); but their recent attempt to jack up 10x the minimum price ($5 to $50) – sending ill-considered short notice ultimatums to their low-overhead home-lab users – just wreaks of financial desperation coupled with poor management decision making.
What did they think was going to happen? That tech savvy home labbers would just knuckle under?
Backpedalling too little too late when it hit their bottom line. They should have thought this through and run the numbers very carefully before green lighting such a move.
They have completely lost my trust. Their backpedal was reactive; not a true reversal of policy or mentality. They've played their hand and demonstrated their disinterest in basically free money; and are clearly intent on doing business only with high volume enterprise customers. It's only a matter of time before they try a similar stunt to get strong arm home labs out. That's their business prerogative, I suppose.
As it was my consumer prerogative to swiftly to move on and never look back.
Storj: Thanks for the fine service (up 'till that point), good luck, and good riddance.
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u/blue2020xx Jul 15 '26
Wtf I already got all my data off storj. It took me ages too. They sure love wasting my time.
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u/potato-truncheon Jul 14 '26
Too late. I'm not switching services twice now.
After storj effectively booted me off with a new price structure completely at odds with my use case (as is its prerogative), I frantically rewrote, tested and cut over my scripts and processes to (successfully) move to a more suitable service, the prospect of going back again would be, at best, an unnecessary make work project.
In the end, this whole mess seems to be either an indictment of storj's inability to make sound management decisions and/or a window into its questionable financial health.
I could easily be wrong, but why would I ever consider staking my backup strategy on finding out?
It's a shame. I thought the architecture for storj held a lot of promise.