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I won’t be paying. Was happy to pay 20p for spotlights and other stuff on a pay as you go basis. But they can stuff the £7.50.
I am sure I will be using ATR more often.
Won’t pay for RP.
Didn’t use it much since it got this new disgusting layout anyway.
Before it was a good site.
Now I’m using use Sporting Life, ATR and the free bet fair form site.In most countries you can get free race cards. Only in the US you have to pay for it. Hope the UK doesn’t follow them. Well, right now there are enough free alternatives.
The RP website has long been one of the best free websites on the internet imo and common sense tells you that it must have started to eat into their newspaper sales.
This was an inevitability about this decision and although you are always going to get plenty of complaints when a new charge is introduced, I think most relatively serious racing fans will end up paying the sub (or will go back to buying the newspaper)
I completely disagree. Most ‘relatively serious racing fans’ would pay for something like Timeform if they want a decent formbook. The RP was a great free site but it will be an abject failure as a subscription site.
Pardon my french, but what a ******* joke!
I finally give in and I am ready to cough up my money like the fool I am, and get this, it doesn’t get much better…
THEY DON’T TAKE MAESTRO!
They "Advised" me to send them a cheque for £199.95
Are they trying to test how loyal there customers are or something?!
Disgrace…
Ok rant over, I’m off the atr.com!
They "Advised" me to send them a cheque for £199.95
Are they trying to test how loyal there customers are or something?!
If the views expressed on TRF are representative of the racing public’s at large then it would seem advisable not to be suckered into paying an annual subs upfront as the site may well be free again, or at least cheaper, in the not too distant future if the take-up doesn’t reach that projected/hoped for by the RP.
£7.50 for the database (is that correct?) is reasonable and had I need of it as my chosen formbook would be quite content to pay that, but the add-ons wouldn’t interest me at all.
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Why am I oblivious to this change?
I have been you using the Racing Post website for years; I have never been asked for a penny and use all its content. As I have both Racing UK and ATR I never paid the 20p to watch a race on the internet which is the only charge I am aware of. Until a year ago I religiously signed in. Now I don’t even do that.
What exactly are you guys being asked to pay for?
no way in hell will i pay for it. i like the post race analysis and the forecast sp, but they’re even charging to see trainer quotes now too.
i will probably start using the at the races site more and more, and it’s even free to watch races on that too.
I find all this unreal.I wont be paying for the rp ’cause I dont need to.The free content is enough for me.The paper will be losing money(the print industry is near busto because of the net) so they have to make money from somewhere.7.50 isnt that much(i would of charged 4.99).If they want to charge so be it.It will be on their head if no one wants to know.You cant knock a free service or one that wants charge.Why should it be free?
placemat2 why shouldn’t it be free? It always has been and so are thousands of websites. I can understand them charging for videos etc but not for basic stuff that you can find elsewhere. Having to pay to see tipsters opinions and RPR’s …. please!!
Take a small time punter that wants to make a smallish profit for example £1000 per year. He now is expected to pay £240 per year for RUK and £90 per year for the basic members club of Racing Post. Thats nearly £350 per year (or a third of his profit). Hardly worth the bother is it?
Why should they give it away? They have done for years and clearly now they have to charge.If there are other free sites them.Why do people expect things for nothing?
Why should they give it away? They have done for years and clearly now they have to charge.If there are other free sites them.Why do people expect things for nothing?
Would you be happy if Cormack said you have to pay £7.50 per month to read this forum?
Like I say if they want to charge let it be for videos not basic content.
If every website starting charging no-one would be able to afford to use the internet.
Greed.
I’ve just signed up for the minimum package- not bothered about tipping etc. Selfishly I’m hoping it helps that not everyone has access to all their content now- I’d find it hard to study form without some of these features and £7.50 pm is doable.
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Is the members’ club site still plastered with adverts, Carv?
Bet365 have a free video archive now.
placemat.i’m not complaining.they can charge what they like.i just would not pay.its been free for year’s ! and now its not .simple
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