If you pay for Adobe Creative Cloud suite ...
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If you try to cancel your Adobe subscription online they will give you 3 free months and half price promo rates so if you're an adobe subscriber, please experiment with this.
I have now saved £450. I had already been a paying customer for 12 months.
Like many I use the full Adobe suite at the full rate of £50 per month with cloud storage and full access to all Adobe programs.
I only use a handful of programs (Photography Suite, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Illustrator) but independently they would cost £70/m.
Recently I decided to use the bare minimum necessities (Lightroom/Photoshop/PP) which would have amounted to £30/month.
So I figure it's time to cancel my Suite subscription. When I tried to cancel using the cancellation route in the account settings they gave me 3 months free.
So after the three months when I try to cancel again I decided to go through the customer service chat and told them I wanted to cancel due to the price and they have given me a rate of £25 / month for the full suite for a full year, which is cheaper than the limited package I was going to reinstate after cancellation.
Just make sure that when you cancel you choose the reason "It's too expensive".
Waiting for my call from MoneySavingExpert, any day now I'm sure
I have now saved £450. I had already been a paying customer for 12 months.
Like many I use the full Adobe suite at the full rate of £50 per month with cloud storage and full access to all Adobe programs.
I only use a handful of programs (Photography Suite, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Illustrator) but independently they would cost £70/m.
Recently I decided to use the bare minimum necessities (Lightroom/Photoshop/PP) which would have amounted to £30/month.
So I figure it's time to cancel my Suite subscription. When I tried to cancel using the cancellation route in the account settings they gave me 3 months free.
So after the three months when I try to cancel again I decided to go through the customer service chat and told them I wanted to cancel due to the price and they have given me a rate of £25 / month for the full suite for a full year, which is cheaper than the limited package I was going to reinstate after cancellation.
Just make sure that when you cancel you choose the reason "It's too expensive".
Waiting for my call from MoneySavingExpert, any day now I'm sure
InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop user here. Still on CS5 due to having paid a fecking fortune for it and not willing to stomach a load more every month for what, essentially, I already have. Just waiting for Affinity to release their InDesign competitor and then I can bin Adobe and their stratospheric prices once and for all.
MitchT said:
InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop user here. Still on CS5 due to having paid a fecking fortune for it and not willing to stomach a load more every month for what, essentially, I already have. Just waiting for Affinity to release their InDesign competitor and then I can bin Adobe and their stratospheric prices once and for all.
Likewise - still on CS6. Ok with paying once for a product, but I really dislike the monthly subscription model. It might suite someone who (for example) saves up a load of work and then subscribes for a couple of months to get it done, then cancels, but I don't use it often enough to justify the subscription, yet really appreciate having it available at any time. I'll stick with the current setup until there are so many features that I really could find useful in the newer versions before looking to update (or move to a competitor product).Anyway, this is a bit O/T, so back on topic, thanks OP for pointing out the potential saving to those who do subscribe.
I don't understand why you were going to pay £30 pm for what is essentially the photography plan?
I pay £8.32 a month for an individual 'Photography Plan' which is Lightroom CC, Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, Camera Raw & Bridge + 20GB of cloud storage. Even as a new subscription Adobe are only quoting that plan at £9 a month.
I'd love to get InDesign & Acrobat as well but there isn't a way to add those on without having to either pay an extra £25 per app or move to the full £49 a month for All Apps plan.
Your pricing seems a bit high.
EDIT: I've just re-read and Im guessing PP is Premiere? Sorry.
I pay £8.32 a month for an individual 'Photography Plan' which is Lightroom CC, Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, Camera Raw & Bridge + 20GB of cloud storage. Even as a new subscription Adobe are only quoting that plan at £9 a month.
I'd love to get InDesign & Acrobat as well but there isn't a way to add those on without having to either pay an extra £25 per app or move to the full £49 a month for All Apps plan.
Your pricing seems a bit high.
EDIT: I've just re-read and Im guessing PP is Premiere? Sorry.
Edited by ashleyman on Sunday 12th August 11:38
Another trick is to pay in a foreign currency, US dollars or something effectively pegged to that. I pay mine in AED and save quite a bit. Had to set up an account based in that country, but used the 'dot trick' on my gmail address to avoid needing a second email. Used my company's local office as the address. Saves around 30% each year depending on the exchange rate at the time.
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