Hi all

Hobo, I was curious so looked up my old Pro records. The discount has been around for a few years, even before LW moved its price from 9.50 to 18.88. Back in May 2003, the discounted renewal for LimeWire 2.9.10 was 7.50

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Thank you for supporting LimeWire in the past! Please note that your PRO download page expires shortly. We hope that you will continue to support LimeWire by renewing your LimeWire PRO for another 6 months. Your support goes toward the continued development of open peer networks such as Gnutella. For a $7.50 contribution, we will provide you with a new version of LimeWire PRO and activate a new personalized download page which will allow you to download LimeWire PRO updates for another 6 months. Please take advantage of this offer by visiting your special upgrade offer page: http://sales.limewire.com/[snipped] Note that you can now buy LimeWire PRO on CD. Just visit our download page if you are interested. http://www.limewire.com/index.jsp/download Time is running out to download updated versions of LimeWire PRO with your personalized download page. Users of version 2.5.5 or earlier must upgrade to get new GWebCache connection establishment capabilities. We recommend that all users upgrade to the latest version. Version 2.9.10 of LimeWire is currently available. There have been great improvements recently in the ability to search for rare files. As the next few releases role out, more improvements will be seen with searches and downloads. We are already seeing some payoff with a quieter network and better rare searches. Gnutella technology is rapidly improving! For your records, your current download page is: http://sales.limewire.com/[snipped] Thank you again for supporting LimeWire! Your support is greatly appreciated.

The following is dated from Nov 2003.

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As you may know, LimeWire PRO is currently priced at $18.88 and may undergo further increases. As a loyal customer, we are pleased to offer you LimeWire PRO and 6 more months of free upgrades for $14.50 . We foresee major improvements over the next few months. .

SpineyNorman, as the originator of this thread, you should be able to edit the title. If not, PM a mod like Lord of the Rings and he can probably get it arranged.

As far as the Pro page lookup problems, a few were fixed last week. Now that LW has a new web dev, perhaps the Pro page problems and suggestions will we addressed sooner. Actually, I'm a bit disappointed ;) When LW didn't pay much attention to the Pro problems, I was somewhat reassured they they were spending most of their time on the coding folks rather than the business types.

Another option would be to save the email confirming your order. Add 6 months to the date you recieved it and you'll have a good idea of when to renew. From memory the first time I repurchased was 6 months and 2 weeks after I had originally paid for Pro.

better yet would be a past subscriber's address is remembered, and sent to a Profile or History page.

I just checked: ironically I can still look up my Pro page, but the support button just kicks me to the free download page. I think I'm due to renew, IIRC. If so, I'll await a "renew" email, since I don't think I've ever received one for may last 4 Pros.

Go figure. Still some bugs to be worked out there :o

I don't think that you will recieve the e-mail. When I was 2 weeks away from the 6 months I sent support a e-mail asking about the reduced rate, I was wanting to know how to pay for LimeWire at the reduced rate, wanted to know if I needed to pay before the 6 months was up. I never recieved a responce but when the next beta came out I went to my download page when I clicked on download it informed me I needed to renew for the discount rate.

You will not get a 'renew' email. My confirmation email is sitting happily in my email box so I have a good idea when to renew next. It would make sense if they sent out such an email but they don't. Either check your credit card statements if you paid that way or your cheque statements or as I stated before, save your email.

Hehe, Leon: [ Is that you Angel? If so, thanks for looking into this]

As you can see from above, I've saved my confirmation emails for a few years. ;)

Those give the date purchased, not the expiry date. As LW once told me, the expiration date used to be generally around the 15th two months after receiving the "about to expire" message on the Pro page.

I'd like to see the actual expiration date on a page accessible even after Pro expires. According to the email method, my anniversary date should be some multiple of 6 months since November 2, 2002 9:23:29 PM GMT-06:00 (I've never let my Pro lapse, IIRC).