Userpic expiring

[wiseheart]

Got this e-mail from LJ today:

Your paid account add-on of Extra Userpics for LiveJournal user "wiseheart" will expire in 12 days, at which time your paid account will revert to its standard features.

I'm not entirely sure what Extra Userpics meam - I only know I had this extra feature out of someone's generosity as an anonymous gift. What am I gonna lose if it expires? Half of my icons? All of my Scrapbook files? Both odds would be rather unpleasant.

I clicked on the link they provided, as my paid account - also the gift of an anonymous benefactor - will expire in February as well, but all I found were guidelines how I could set up automatic payment in US dollars. Well, tough shit. I can't pay them in US dollars. We've got different currency here, and having it exchanged and transferred would cost considerably more than a year's worth of paid account, even if I knew how to do it - which I don't.

Sometimes I really wish we would switch to the Euro, soon. Our national currency really limits my chances to do things other people do in their sleep. *sighs*

Edit: Virtual cookies for the anonymous benefactor who has just gifted another year's worth of paid account upon me. One day, I will find a way to do something like that for somebory, too - I hope.

Comments

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Yes, Plus accounts are free, and they give you more features and benefits than Basic accounts - in exchange for seeing ads on most LJ pages.

(There's more info on the different account levels, and links to details and a comparison chart, here.)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I'll take a look and hope fervently that I understand what I'm reading. ;)

I've got a very specific debility when it comes to written techincal information, even in Hungarian. Of course, it's usually a translation done by someone in Singapore or so, by Babelfish or something like that. Sometimes I understand more from the English original. *g*

[crowdaughter.livejournal.com]

Well, everybody who has a paid account won't even see the adds when logged in, so changing to a plus account in February may be the way to go. I pay my paid account with credit card (the exchange of currency is done automatically, this way), but it is one of the very few paid websites I can and will afford. And that is only because the dollar is that low, currently, in exchange with the Euro.Otherwise, I would probably switch to plus account, too.

Otherwise: {{{HUGS}}} to you!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Hi Aislinn! *waves* Nice to hear of you again!
*hugs back*