3 Months of VIP | $5/month Billed at $15 every 3 months
6 Months of VIP | $4/month Billed at $24 every 6 months
12 Months of VIP | $3/month Billed at $36 every 12 months
3 Years of VIP | $2.5/month Billed at $90 every 36 months
5 Years of VIP | $2/month Billed at $120 every 60 months
Lifetime of VIP | $1.5/month (@10 years) One-time payment of $180
Note: Currently, VIP purchases are individual payments, however, they will soon be offered as recurring subscriptions. You will be able to very easily unsubscribe from VIP renewal payments at any time.
VIP Features:
• Special Badge Showcase a Unique VIP Badge next to your username (or you may hide this).
• Remove Advertising Remove all Ads appearing on SW, for a Faster, Cleaner browsing experience.
• View Profile Visitors See which members visited your Profile, as well as the Time of the visits.
• Invisible Mode Completely Hide your Visitor presence from ALL members, including VIP Users!
• See Read Messages Know if Messages you sent were Read by the recipient users.
• See Hearts on Posts/Comments View the list of Hearts received on All Posts, including those of other users.
• Increased Image Gallery Limit Store much more images on your SW account without running out of space.
• Increased Message Limit Gain a very High Message quota that you'll never have to worry about filling.
• Increased Block Limit Block offensive users much more freely without worrying about limits.
Additional great new VIP Features will be added in the coming weeks and months.
We do not have access to your Credit Card information through our sales. These purchases are processed by a trusted 3rd-party payment processor, PayPal.
So yes, you will still be fully anonymous to us after your VIP purchase.
@SaintSong, At this time, if you cross the Regular Member limit while using your VIP Membership, then stop your VIP Membership, you will continue to keep the same images already uploaded, and the users you already blocked will continue to remain blocked.
However, in order to add new photos or block new users, you will likely have to get back down below the Regular Member limit, by deleting images and/or unblocking users, before you can upload new images or block additional users again.
@--nik--: Many people consider EP's app design one of the main contributing factors to the closure of that project for various reasons, so it's unlikely to inspire the SW app too much. The SW app is much more likely to be modeled after the SW website instead, including ads and VIP features.
@Martasex: This hasn't been definitively confirmed, but is strongly considered for a future update.
Thank you for the compliment! Nuno and Andrew are indeed doing a great job with the programming.
Groups creation is indeed planned, but it will not be allowed as freely as on EP to prevent duplicate groups and typos and non-sentences as group names. It's not definitive how this will be monitored, but it will possibly become a system to suggest groups that have to be approved by the team. I'm not sure whether gestures are planned too or when any updates are ready to be released, but the admins will regularly post teasers and information.
@CuriousGorge: PayPal will automatically convert it from your currency to USD. After clicking the Buy button, it will show the amount and let you choose to cancel or proceed.
Paypal offers the option of a one time payment without creating an account and your privacy is completely protected. When you pay them, they pay for your VIP membership so SW doesn't get to see what payment method you used.
We will be working on that at some point, in the short term.
However, let's do the following (which we've successfully done with a few other users):
Please "upgrade" your VIP membership, buying whatever time you would like to buy to the other user, and then send me a private message to let me know when that is done, and to which account would you like me to move the time you've just bought.
You can do that here - https://similarworlds.com/vip?upgrade=1
It's very reasonably priced and I was going for a one year subscription but you only accept Paypal payments. There are a number of us on here who do not have Paypal accounts and would rather not use our regular credit cards for the sake of anonymity. Will you be accepting gift type credit cards in the future?
1- Will you allow us later to create groups like it was the case with EP? 2- Would you provide us with a whiteboard and gestures? 3- When should we expect the upcoming progress, I so want the nested replies to kick in :/ Also wish there were gestures and WB.
Ok, sorry for whining too much, love the website! ;)
SW-User
@Andrew Thanks for the info! Was curious about whether card information will be stored and will we still be anonymous if we use our own bank cards?
So say you have blocked 100 people while you were a 3 month VIP, then you no longer want VIP what happens to all of those blocked users once your VIP runs out or your extra photos ect...
I was just wondering what purpose the robot has in S.W.. It was out last night asking questions. I was just curious. I mean I would feel dumb trying to have a conversation with it. LOL Which I hadn't gotten around to yet. Other wise great site love all the improvements. :-)
@bj2016: The admins will post announcements of all major updates in this group: https://similarworlds.com/group?fid=100&name=Admin-Announcements
I'm sure that the app will be mentioned there very soon after its release, and members will likely be posting about it all over as it is a popular feature. Don't worry, I expect it will be impossible to miss.
I bought the $15 membership just to try out, i made with paypal and it said my card was declined, but then i received a msg of purchase charging me for MXN$ 294 ($15) but i didnt seem to have the VIP thing and neither my email from paypal
Question: what can a VIP see from a visitor? Only the name (which is OK I think) or also additional information like IP-address, location, etc etc (which is scary)?.
I'm curious how this will translate to the app. EP's app didn't have ads so I'm assuming yours won't either (I'm ignorant, though, so correct me if I'm wrong). So will all applicable features then follow us to the app? I had a strong dislike for EPs website so had little experience with how things cross over.
