rvwnsd Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 Have any renewing members been charged $19.99? I'm taking a wait-and-see before cancelling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeBiDude Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 1 hour ago, rvwnsd said: Have any renewing members been charged $19.99? I'm taking a wait-and-see before cancelling. I’m wondering the same….any chance existing members are keeping their current rate. Or getting the increase later? + azdr0710 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ jeezopete Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 My next recurring payment will be on the 27th. My account doesn't show any information about an increase yet, still lists "Amount Paid: US$9.95." We'll see what happens on the 27th. If it does go up, I'll cancel immediately. + azdr0710, MikeBiDude and + Axiom2001 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 The only thing I would miss by being a premium member is being able to report the FAKES. + azdr0710 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ ThroatCummer Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 (edited) As someone who runs a SaaS (Software/Subscription as a Service) company, I have two pretty huge pieces of advice here for every reader of this thread, both providers and clients alike. They’re a little complicated but this is me 💯% swearing the return on investment is here and anyone who buys stuff online should be doing this already. If not, take time out of your schedule and reorganize over the next few weeks: First: Always, always, always pay for an entire year up front for sites and software you have already determined you like and already see good value in the service. Sure, trial them for a month or two but pay for it yearly after you see the value the site brings. Almost every single one typically offers at least a two month discount (e.g, $99/year vs. $9.99/month) which comes out to a 17% to 20% discount at minimum (sometimes more!) and let’s be honest… prices never ever decrease. They only increase so you’re locked in for the remainder at an even better discount when that happens. This applies to everything from Netflix to Hulu to Amazon Prime to every site that has monthly subscriptions. You always come out ahead, and the company backing the site itself loves the extra revenue their finance folks can recognize on their balance sheet. Total win-win all around. Second: Almost every major bank and credit card company allows this now, so leverage online banking tools from your bank or payment method’s site to create separate “virtual cards” unique to every merchant or website. Don’t pay with bank debits ever. Don’t use your main VISA/MC/AMEX card number that’s physically in your pocket either. At your financial institution site, in 2023, you can typically issue a new private card number and set a spend limit for each individual site you want to subscribe. For example, you can say a company is only allowed to charge $10/month to this virtual card. Sure, it requires a little bit more effort during the initial sign-up but once you’re in the habit, the benefits far, far outweigh the small inconvenience at the time and will make your finances exponentially easier to manage long after the fact. Anytime a site changes terms like Rent.men without notification, their charge is declined. Rent.men goes from $9.95 to $19.95 per change? Automatically declined. I personally probably have 60-90 virtual cards in regular use for everything at any given time. Pro tip: Label them well and using consistent naming conventions Benefit #1: Doing this protects you when your physical card is compromised or lost, something we all know happens regularly these days and can be a royal pain in the ass. With this model in place, you don’t need to re-enter your card everywhere when it happens. Not only software sites and streaming services, but little league fees for your kids, accounts at bookstores or libraries in town, saved payment methods at PayPal or Airline websites or Amazon or GNC.com or 5,000 other eCommerce sites. Trust me here, generating separate virtual cards for all your online activities —IS— a proven lifesaver not only with time but as a budget control stop gap measure. Benefit #2: It prevents sites from charging more without notice. It reverses the roles and puts you in control of the money and debits and you can easily shut off a virtual card where the site doesn’t make it easy to cancel. “Hold the fuck up! You want me to wait on the phone to call to cancel and listen to someone for ten minutes trying to convince me otherwise??” — in this separate card for each site model, you login to your bank and toggle that specific card tied to that site to the off position and never speak to them again. They automatically close your account after 30 days of declined payments. Win-win all around. ————————— That’s all for now typing from my phone at 3:15 AM. I have a half dozen other tips in these scenarios as this type of model is at the core at what my corporation does, but the ones above are mutually beneficial all around. Well, except shutting off virtual cards for individual sites that don’t offer an easy method to cancel recurring charges (think gyms and health/fitness clubs). But that’s on the company for making it harder to cancel. SaaS platforms should be able to flick on and off each month just a light ditch. That’s simply good business in 2023 where you do t have a 12 month or longer contract. This stuff is kind of my wheelhouse, so if anybody has any questions on the intricacies of how any of this works, feel free to post. My only goal is to educate and help everyone here not only with Rent.men, but the other 20-30 sites we all pay monthly for these days. It also helps you set overall budgets (and stick with them!) on sites like OnlyFans so they don’t get out of hand. 👀😳🤣😎 I hope this post was helpful to many others in the forum Upvotes or reactions are very much appreciated to show thanks and let me know if contributing like this is something I should do more. Anyway hope ya’ll got laid this past weekend. multiple times. 😳🍆 Edited February 21, 2023 by ThroatCummer CastaDiva, Ali Gator, HoseMaster and 10 others 5 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luv2play Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 7 hours ago, BuffaloKyle said: Log in and on this page is your expiration date: https://rentmen.eu/account/ Yeah. I went into my account and see that my next billing cycle will have the $19.99 rate. That sucks. + Vegas_Millennial 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnychgo Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 When I went to cancel, it gave me a warning that I would lose the current membership rate. So I guess I will take a risk and give it another month. Renews on March 1 so will let you guys know at that time. What does irk me is that I did it to see private pics, but so many now, even with premium, need to have the escort unlock them. What a rip-off. ericwinters, MikeBiDude, + jeezopete and 4 others 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloKyle Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 1 hour ago, jonnychgo said: When I went to cancel, it gave me a warning that I would lose the current membership rate. So I guess I will take a risk and give it another month. Renews on March 1 so will let you guys know at that time. What does irk me is that I did it to see private pics, but so many now, even with premium, need to have the escort unlock them. What a rip-off. You're gonna get charged the new rate. It always said that even before the price hike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Tygerscent Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 (edited) On 2/20/2023 at 1:33 AM, The Dude said: Just a warning, RentMen has quietly raised its membership price to $19.99; I almost didn't notice before pulling the trigger. I barely thought it was worth it at $9.99, but $20? Forget it. Ha~! You would be shocked to see what they charge us providers… they charge us for three levels of membership, boosts… th ERy also charge us to be interview of the day, profile of the day, for being a sponsor, for having banners and more… super rapey… Just like the old rentboy site~ plus very little representation and support for the site itself when problems arise~ The original owners used to let you pay for the year in advance and give you a discount: gone~ used to also get free month if you posted video content: gone~ The location services and travel section are both messed up… Edited February 25, 2023 by Tygerscent + robear 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ robear Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 I've only occasionally gone for a 1-mo to check out the dicks. Those days are over, in part because lots of providers include full frontals in their "free" offerings, the upgrade doesn't get much and no way I'm paying $20. I wonder if that policy is about to change, ie no explicit pix in ads except for the "private." Clear opportunity for GayRomeo to take over the North American market. HoseMaster 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate_sf Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 3 hours ago, robear said: Clear opportunity for GayRomeo to take over the North American market. I created a profile on Hunqz a while back, just to try it out. I wish Hunqz would get more traction in the US but for now it’s nothing but crickets. carp86 and + robear 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeBiDude Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 15 hours ago, BuffaloKyle said: You're gonna get charged the new rate. It always said that even before the price hike. Where does it say that? Just curious I haven’t been notified of any changes, next premium billing date is 3/6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bucky Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 You guys who hire at $400/hour are bitchin about an extra $10 a month? jtwalker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtwalker Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 I don't care about the $20/month; I just don't see the value in it. I can see everything I want to see by meeting up with someone. MikeBiDude and + robear 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeBiDude Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 13 minutes ago, Bucky said: You guys who hire at $400/hour are bitchin about an extra $10 a month? Anyone who increases prices 100% shouldn’t be surprised if they lose customers who don’t feel it’s a value any longer. + azdr0710, carp86, Jaroslav and 4 others 2 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Axiom2001 Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 33 minutes ago, Bucky said: You guys who hire at $400/hour are bitchin about an extra $10 a month? I DON'T "hire at $400/hour," nor am I "bitchin about an extra $10 a month" increase. We, who have Premium memberships, had NEVER been informed about a price increase; thus the extensive discourse. *Yesterday as I perused a thread that I'd written in the "Providers' Forum"-- I was amazed at the prices Rentmen charge providers. The rates are criminal, for RM charges them for every feature that I thought RM put up free of charge. I was under the impression that RM promoted many of providers who advertise. I was completely incorrect. + jeezopete 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeBiDude Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 10 hours ago, Tygerscent said: Ha~! You would be shocked to see what they charge us providers… they charge us for three levels of membership, boosts… Discussion of that here : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ jeezopete Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 10 hours ago, Tygerscent said: Ha~! You would be shocked to see what they charge us providers… Wondering if they'll raise your costs if they lose too many premium clients over this unannounced 100% increase. They'll want to make up their money somehow. MikeBiDude 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Tygerscent Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 1 hour ago, jeezopete said: Wondering if they'll raise your costs if they lose too many premium clients over this unannounced 100% increase. They'll want to make up their money somehow. Well… they already overcharge providers… You guys get charged 20 bucks… We get charged hundreds of dollars per month~ Add on the extras and a provider can run up a $1,000 bill with them~ They already rape us~ Obviously being a provider entails some pretty hefty overhead for full timers… (travel, accommodations, websites, meals, gym, car rentals, more…)~ Inevitably, increased costs to providers get shunted down to Clients~ Sites for providers can’t be run in this country effectively due to anti human trafficking laws~ Their bad business drives both Clients and Providers to venues like FFO and OF Luv2play and + robear 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 I just wrote to RM politely expressing concern about the rate increase. They quickly replied that as long as I have recurring auto-rebilling the rate will stay at 9.95. Wow!! We'll see in a few days if so! MikeBiDude and + Vegas_Millennial 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloKyle Posted February 26, 2023 Share Posted February 26, 2023 6 hours ago, MikeBiDude said: Where does it say that? Just curious I haven’t been notified of any changes, next premium billing date is 3/6. I don't like auto-renewal so I always hit cancel auto-renewal when I sign up for a month of premium membership and that message always pops up that I'll lose the auto-renewal rate. But @azdr0710 said if you're on auto-renewal you should get the $9.95 rate so I stand corrected. That actually does make sense though. That until you cancel your auto-renewal you'll always get the $9.95 rate. MikeBiDude 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luv2play Posted February 26, 2023 Share Posted February 26, 2023 On 2/24/2023 at 7:21 PM, jonnychgo said: When I went to cancel, it gave me a warning that I would lose the current membership rate. So I guess I will take a risk and give it another month. Renews on March 1 so will let you guys know at that time. What does irk me is that I did it to see private pics, but so many now, even with premium, need to have the escort unlock them. What a rip-off. I don't agree with that. Many providers link to their Twitter accounts and the pics and flics can be scorching. Don't know if basic clients can see the Twitter stuff tho since I am a Premium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luv2play Posted February 26, 2023 Share Posted February 26, 2023 3 hours ago, azdr0710 said: I just wrote to RM politely expressing concern about the rate increase. They quickly replied that as long as I have recurring auto-rebilling the rate will stay at 9.95. Wow!! We'll see in a few days if so! Now I can't remember if I have auto renewal or monthly based on a yearly contract. I'll find out in a few days. Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ jeezopete Posted February 26, 2023 Share Posted February 26, 2023 My monthly recurring membership just renewed for $9.95 tonight. 👍 MikeBiDude and + azdr0710 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longchamp Posted February 26, 2023 Share Posted February 26, 2023 I just re-subscribed for one year with my existing AMEX on file. Got a message that it was approved followed by 2 messages that I need to submit a photograph of a handwritten note validating my payment along with a with government issued photo id. Absent that, RM indicated that it would invalidate my membership and return my AMEX payment. I'm not taking photos or writing handwritten notes. Jaroslav, + ButchAtl and Dolman 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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