post Re: pandora price increase in Subscriptions

Direct-Billed: Plus Subscription Rate Change

scotte — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:50:49 GMT

20% greed.

pure greed.

from $54 to $65 -- and the human junk slimes its way into pandora.

"didn't make this lightly" . . . .. yeah because you really wanted to get a 30% increase.

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renewel

LM1988 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:16:07 GMT

I think it is VERY VERY SAD, I am cancelling my subscription, how can you justify raising the price $11.00, this is bull.

Why would you do this? DO YOU WANT TO LOSE CUSTOMERS? because you just lost 1, when everything is so high, you obviously don't care about all of you customers. I fully understand raising rates I have my own SMALL BUSINESS, I would NEVER RAISE THEM SO MUCH AT 1 TIME THAT IS HORRIBLE. GREED

I think we ALL SHOULD CANCEL OUR SUBSCRIPTIONS, This company is WAY TO GREEDY MAKES ME SICK

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Pandora Subscription Rate Change

miniskunk — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:15:32 GMT

We would understand the price increase if you were improving the audio quality to match the competition. I am seriously thinking about parting ways after over 20 years of being a subscriber. You have taken your subscriber base for granted.

Re: pandora price increase

whpony96 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:23:54 GMT

A increased profit of $97,578,000.00 per year. (Based on 7.8 million subscribers)

Re: pandora price increase

scotte — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:38:56 GMT

literally a direct bottom line paywall & how much of this

increase will flow into the music artists' pockets . . . . . .

no mention of improving royalty payouts to https://www.soundexchange.com/

to improve all music artists living means. nadda. none. nope. not gonna support the artists who make this all possible.

Re: Direct-Billed: Plus Subscription Rate Change

grandpa1948lawr — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:40:24 GMT

I am old guy in nursing home. They get all my money except $60 per month. Pandora rate increase makes noticeable difference to me. For a dollar more I get Amazon Prime. You lose long-time customer. Cya

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Thank you Pandora!

bmoag — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:13:43 GMT

Thanks for alerting me that the price for a subscription to an endlessly looping playlist is going up by 30%. It finally got me to cancel.

Re: Direct-Billed: Plus Subscription Rate Change

rsy23 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:45:33 GMT

A nearly 40% ($3.99 to %5.49) price increase? 🤔 I could understand the huge price hike if Pandora was using Diesel fuel to operate their program!

Re: Promotions for existing customers

tinastrong — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:15:45 GMT

What is even worse is the email we got today saying they are raising the price by $11 a year.

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Hackora — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:51:17 GMT

Uh-oh... Well my confidence that this will get fixed soon just plummeted.

I also have Spotify (have to have it for some volunteer stuff I do at a high school). Since I'm paying for that anyway and since Pandora pricing just went up 20% and since I use Pandora only in the car and on mountain bike rides and since using it on Mountain bike rides (spotty coverage) is painful, might as well save the $65/year...

Maybe I'll return someday if I hear that this has been fixed but for now, so long...