I am a fan of Geni and like the idea and the mission of Geni as a service. However I will never buy subscription plan with the pricing like this. My mother in law bought one but even she eventually canceled it.
To me this is obvious, but maybe for Geni it's not, so I would like to explain.
I use Geni as a offline storage of my ancestry data. Similar to "nostalgia box" and addition to family photo albums. There was a period when I added all members I know about and now there is nothing for me to do. I am an offline user.
Therefore, asking to pay $5, $8 or any amount to pay does not make any sense to me as a customer. Paying for storing data - maybe. Paying for next tree size tier - sure. But in all cases I expect the price to be low (comparable to Amazon Glacier storage fees) and nearly one time event. Maybe once in a year or two.
Now Geni sends notification about *potential* tree matches and offers me to upgrade. Again, this does not make sense. First, I'd rather give you $1-$5 for each one time merge than paid $60 a year... for what? Second, paying for *potential* value is never will be high on my list.
I am really blown away that this is so obvious to me as a user and yet Geni struggles to understand it and instead of getting a little money from each of 99% of users like me they try to sell to 1% of active users population.
Please let me pay for you for individual tree merges.
