A terrific offer - well done. I think that at the $1 per week (or slightly less now at $49 per year), you've reached the critical acceptance point for a subscription. Here's hoping that this will fire up many people that have been sitting on the fence to take the plunge.
Thanks JPP. Our pricing is often an issue for some customers and we regularly offer discount promotions on subscriptions via emails, forum posts, magazine competitions and so on in order to give these customers a chance to get IceTV at a greatly reduced cost. Obviously today's Christmas deal is a good example of this.
We would love nothing more than to lower the cost of our subscriptions but unfortunately our internal costs to produce the IceTV EPG without any cooperation from the major and regional commercial TV networks is still very high and labour intensive, in addition to the cost of continually adding new and exciting features to constantly evolve our service for users.
The cost of our 12 month auto-renew product has indeed changed to $49 during the time of this promotion, but will then default to the regular $89 price point as you have seen in your My Account settings. The message that you saw was automatically generated by our system using the price of the 12 month auto-renew product and was an error that has now been fixed.
We apologise for any confusion or inconvenience caused. Who knows, if we keep seeing a response like what we have seen today then perhaps the $49 price point will remain for much longer. At this stage we are looking like we will have to extend the offer to another 500 customers so that everyone has a chance to take advantage of the deal and save some cash this Christmas
Cheers,
mattk