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Cycling as a cultural attitude
Cycling as a cultural attitude. Not just style or 'Streetstyle', a phrase first expressed by anthropologist Ted Polhemus and one that is omnipresent across many sartorial blogs. This is what I think of when I think of the Rapha Survey blog:
To me Survey is a scrapbook documentation of people whose love and passion is cycling. This in turn exudes an attitude in both their attire, style and bike choices. That's me just below: no brakes, no helmet, just a bit of gold and my cycling attitude. Say what you will but like all people we have the choice of what we do and how we wear ourselves to the outside world, and this is how I like to roll.
Below is my selection of city riding types whose attitude has made 2012 an intriguing year for Survey. A gallery of photography which has perhaps expanded, morphed and re-shaped its original purpose as a cycle sartorial blog.
London / Photographer - George Marshall
"Don't call me urban" the title of Simon Wheatly's photographic book archiving the grime music scene speaks of the negative connotations of the word driven by commerce and media. This image reminds me of that work. For me this striking shot does not speak of 'urban' in the music sense, it only speaks of an inner city attitude and the style that supports it. From the attire to the customised Ridgeback hybrid, this image shouts "Great Britain", just as previously frowned upon youth subcultures like Punks and Skinheads did.
Gavin Watson - Gavin's brother sits on a BMX in High Wycombe, 1984
Basket Case
London / Photographer - George Marshall
This gentleman and his ride simply had to make it into my selection. You could say he desperately needs a van to put his cargo in. But no. This is not the attitude of a hardened cyclist. Everything serves a practical purpose here, which in turn naturally helps push out a cool, calm and effortless style. It starts from the loose, relaxed fit of his Kaftan and ends with the laid-back geometry and weaved baskets of his hybrid bike.
Mountain Man
Denver CO / Photographer - George Marshall
There is so much that is attitude in this shot, I don't know where to begin. Clearly a man that wears his habitat, the Moccasins, ripped denim shorts a cut above the knee, wolf-man hair, a dog that matches and a car and a bike that form a perfect marriage of style-cool born from living rather than a glossy style mag.
The Archbishop
London / Photographer - George Marshall
Timeless signature style and an attitude of a man with respect. The bike itself is as traditional and as classy as the man with which it travels. Three gears is all the speed God needs.
London / Photographer - George Marshall
Body adornment is no stranger to attitude and this man wears his passion for cycling on his skin regardless of what he puts on in the morning. Judging by the amount of slack in that chain, this gentlemen rides till it breaks. That sort of hardened attitude can only be found in courier culture or further south in the Pacific.
San Francisco / Photographer - John Reiss
With a look so cool and a swagger straight out of Wayne's World, this man should be sipping Coca Cola from a glass bottle weaving through traffic on a skateboard just before hanging out in an 80's arcade. But no, he cycles custom. He wants to turn heads and then take them as passengers for a party back home.
For that. I salute him.
Cavallino Meccanico
Melbourne / Photographer - Andy White
Survey wouldn't be Survey without the girls and their style that consistently begs the question "you can ride your bike, in that?" A question that is no more relavant than the lady above. When this was originally posted many shouted "fake" due to her attire not being practical enough for her steed.
Take a trip to Dalston in London, Harajuku in Japan or Mississippi Avenue in Portland and you will see that practicality in city riding often comes second after style. The very fact the outfit highlights the paint job simply shows this girl knows how to pull the style trigger and if the bike isn't hers, she does a damn good job of offering inspiration. The very reason we are celebrating Survey.
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28th December 2012 02:23pm
weird . get it . not rapha people .just sayin .
justin riley
28th December 2012 03:56pm
"When this was originally posted many shouted "fake" due to her attire not being practical enough for her steed."
They shouted fake beacuse it's not her bike. Check out the size of it - it belongs to Mr Fxyomatosis.
James Fairbank
28th December 2012 06:23pm
@Paul Witte. They may not match your perception of the Rapha person but we're a broader church than perhaps some appreciate and Survey helps us to articulate that a little. To give some context to this comment the author of this article, the subject in the first photo, is a key part of Rapha.
@justin riley: To quote from the above "and if the bike isn't hers, she does a damn good job of offering inspiration."
Thanks for the comments & Happy Christmas to you both.
Tom Mclaren
28th December 2012 07:29pm
"no brakes, no helmet, just a brain injury waiting to happen." FTFY.
justin riley
28th December 2012 10:43pm
@justin riley: To quote from the above "and if the bike isn't hers, she does a damn good job of offering inspiration."
I think she copied the look of Annabella from BowWowWow ;)
Happy xmas / new year to you too :)
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And -- don't wanna let Larry ward founder of gun appreciation day they do Larry thank you going on tonight.
Why do and it.
Well you know he did he start on the first -- 113 congress where and when -- -- years.
To -- her for gun control.
And Dianne Feinstein suddenly came out.
You know -- she's apparently going after not only air assault weapons but also handguns.
And the president and vice president both in guaranteed sweeping political control legislation that in the -- student we didn't have much much.
Time more -- much choice.
-- choice.
But I mean if we wanted to stop the -- legislation.
Well you stop letting me cut either even at a press release that says.
If the American people don't fight back now Obama -- -- the Second Amendment but he's already done to the first.
So before we I just like to start there because how your first amendment's.
Rights being compromised.
Because the broadly -- So we can look at it look at what -- the violence there in terms -- they have the freedom religious religious liberty is really really compromise.
Is in terms of these these businesses that are being forced to.
So contraceptives and then Q how.
What business deal or important businesses are being forced to sell contraceptives it's a matter of giving I wanna get too bogged -- of this this -- -- on -- document guns but.
Many states already had those rules in effect.
And I don't understand how you could tell me any rights or your rights have been compromised.
By Barack Obama in any way shape or form what right you think you don't have now that you had four years ago.
Well -- -- -- about you know having.
Church hospitals.
You know -- like get caught it Padilla into the bomb which you could that was that was what.
Would be well you're blaming -- -- -- blaming him with trampling the constitution.
And you also say.
Martin Luther King whose birthday -- comes.
Around the time of -- appreciation day which support you this is somebody took about -- a ballot nonviolence.
And died at the hands of a gun.
I'm telling you might say that it might be considered insensitive to inflate gun appreciation day with Martin Luther King Jr.
Well you know I didn't check the finish commanders view and I expect -- so federal -- there was.
They'll be my my main point was that he had that been done movement was you know that -- gun -- -- very tied to the civil rights movement.
And that and they had the you know they beat the right for every -- every race and every.
Individuals have equal rights to defend themselves.
You know who it was one of the driving forces that -- the civil rights movement -- fire.
What is -- to do -- guns.
Well I'd certainly has a lot to do.
United in our history to look back at some of the some of the -- that infringe on.
But for African Americans yet there -- -- thousand of them -- by staged by the federal government.
And you know it wasn't until.
You know the civil rights movement that they're.
You know all people you know -- -- -- -- at -- same practiced well we look at what's going on today in in new York and Chicago.
You know repeat the residents of New York did you Congo for example don't have the same right.
Don't have the same opportunity.
Two to take advantage of their right to defend themselves.
And and -- And I ally that -- people not prohibited from having guns in New York or Chicago.
People aren't taking got underway just you can have assault weapons certain places but -- -- -- you -- of them wanted to backtrack for second because.
He started took inflating the civil rights movement.
-- gun rights.
And are you aware of the fact we talk about this earlier tonight Tom -- has talked about it we talked about it with our earlier -- this evening.
Who worked with discussing.
The background of inaugurations and presidencies.
That the right to own a gun was in fact partly to preserve slavery.
That right this second -- is linked to the history of slavery there because of the militias also called slave patrols in that.
Was where the gun rights were intended by our founders who happen to be slave owners that's what my the Second Amendment.
-- -- that's a little bit -- revisionist history but but you know we we have five.
You know I have done you know I've been trying to research in this and and you know I disagree without it.
We'll disagree -- -- based on what we have slave owners who found in the country.
We had militias in place who were slave patrols and founders Patrick Henry George Mason James Madison were very clear about this.
That that's what the Second Amendment was based on and that's why it was -- That's way up to.
I think others were very clear that the that the second eleven.
Certainly purposes it's -- right it depends all different ones that self family of property.
To defend the country against foreign invasion to defend the in of the citizenry.
Against I would be -- sit down.
What do you wanna come to good appreciate an appreciation day.
Do people to embrace there AK forty sevens -- what what is that what what do you hope comes out of this.
Again I just felt that people chill out and stand you know peacefully demonstrate -- and you know send a message to Washington that.
I basically to remind politicians how we feel about our elected to -- bear arms.
You have said you think another thing you said about this in the previous interview maybe you'll once again say he didn't have the chance to fully answer the question.
Was that of slaves had guns.
Than they wouldn't be slaves anymore.
I says except for -- of the hypothetical.
And -- there's you know there's plenty of historical evidence you know not balance the result -- others but it's still that people even in the you know.
In -- in our nation's history that a period it's -- that was you know.
-- you know -- called called on every bit there's there's a lot.
-- -- history.
The last wave.
There was no way played -- had -- they and they didn't have any rights and indeed it was a slave owners.
Who ensured that they were the ones who have the guns because they're the ones who wrote the constitution.
And I and I and I said they had the right to keep them there are -- I lose -- -- at least saying as a hypothetical yes.
They have the right to bear arms.
You know perhaps they would have been in ended in a different.
In a different position to choose to fight back.
But that's absurd argument because they were.
Slaves who had no rights kept down by slave owners on plantations.
Who -- they had the guns.
Let me.
I thought it might not have been a great argument but it was a hypothetical.
And the other the fact that people have the ability.
Itself is is you know could could have helped prevent the.
-- -- -- understand the sensitivity that sent people have toward having a -- appreciation day in the wake of the sandy -- shootings.
-- on Martin Luther King Day and on the day -- the day before we inaugurate for the second time our first black president.
You know and that there are people who are sensitive about that inflation of those events.
The first thing you know they did did -- was planned.
In advance Dianne feinstein's.
Legislation that was the only reason we chose -- day how we want to have enough time to announce it and -- To get the momentum going.
And we do so had a fire fight.
-- did you not take into consideration some of the other events happening around that day.
But I -- not quite frankly be what was Jean day and inauguration days on Monday.
So it's not on the same day and I did -- consideration or and -- and thank and I ordered a couple of days before.
The the you know I believe Martin Luther King Jr.
was was all about the -- in the speech and and that and that and the freedom.
I actually took about nonviolence was killed by -- gun.
I understand that but he.
You know the -- about bringing this issue for him assembly is very important which is not the issue were talking about it and I believe that you know he would he would support for in -- -- 365.
I don't know squelching your -- -- -- your -- on around Santa thing percent.
Chris in Brooklyn hello you're on -- Larry -- Analysts are we troop.
It straight now.
It is invoking the Black Panther Party owning weapons in the sixties.
When the last 46 years we've been hearing nothing but the new Black Panther Party and three guys standing or else it's.
-- I mean values he's invoking gun rights as -- -- -- that thing that was part of the civil rights program.
I've seen people on FaceBook for a formal law enforcement officers crowing about the fact that generate that -- 250000 members this week.
And are also saying how much they respect -- Malcolm X right now.
I mean we're reaching I mean these are not.
Lately what have you got what he wants it or gifts -- -- my -- is just that you'll reach to any thing.
You know this -- -- argue.
You want to respond to that -- -- about twenty -- Sure sure let me read we'll correct it's it -- My position is always been saying I believe and inequality -- believe -- and liberty and I believe those two things are BitTorrent.
And and without without without equality we can't have you -- -- and appreciate.
I learned that I thank you very much for coming on the program tonight and taken my questions thank you for being -- appreciated.
-- thanks very much Larry -- of the he's the founder of gun appreciation day.
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I am in the process of a total restoration on a 50' Manson FDMY. I am trying to find out ANYTHING about the company. I have scoured the internet without luck. Can anyone of you ladies or, gentlemen help??
I am in the process of a total restoration on a 50' Manson FDMY. I am trying to find out ANYTHING about the company. I have scoured the internet without luck. Can anyone of you ladies or, gentlemen help??
Thad...(forumite member).. will know...email: www.Reddspondboatworks.com
Also, WB mag has done one article...check their Achive at their home website. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Manson's yard was in Salisbury, Ma. ....your boat..50 feet!...a big baby!
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Thank you Norske!! I have e-mailed Thad. I will check the archives........your post has truly given me more information than I have been able to get in over 2 years. Thank you again.
Hello Coz....you can now get a copy of WB mag #9 from WBM..photo copy I believe...the only issue about Manson listed in WB index...otherwise I can mail you a copy of the article from my original #9. [img]smile.gif[/img]
I see your a commercial pilot and your 61 years young; good show.....whats the mandatory retirement age?...what airline do you fly for now?
There was a 32 foot Manson (a fifties boat) in my club a few years ago...it was known for its high quality construction...
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I have reached the "mandatory" retirement age of 60. While I do not fly the '72 (Boeing 727) any longer as Captain I still retain flight engineer certification on it. However, as with boating once a captain, always a captain [img]smile.gif[/img] So, I fly our feeder aircraft which are under a different set of regulations (FAA-135) as opposed to (FAA-121).
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There's a guy from Amesbury who posts here.
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You got the wrong forum Ashley. This is an electronic cig forum. I do not reccomend dripping your juice into a blue ray player. Bad things will happen.
I don't know, Cruel... I'm sure there's a mod somewhere. What's better than a movie AND a vape, at the same time?
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Hello Ashley, and welcome to the forum!
Asking that question is like asking "which is your favorite ejuice flavor?"!! Taste is, after all, subjective! With the evolution of smarter and smarter TV's and the expansion of "The Cloud", and the growing popularity of movie streaming services, movie storage on disks is rapidly becoming (if not already) obsolete, so if you haven't invested in a player by now, don't bother!What is the best Blu-ray player software to use?
P.S. Do you Vape? If not, you are really missing out. I recommend trolling around this forum and checking out the Vapor4Life website. Start with a DAV and 3.5 ml tank. Get a couple sampler packs of ejuice and vape on!!
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Thats just what I've been doing all day heh. had to rewatch a few things because i've been reading forums or updating my vaping knowledge. Watched the same science nerd show like three times, and still missed most of it. Now I'll never know the secrets of black holes.
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Ashley.. after all this helpful information, why aren't you responding?
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Nikon and I did his first time breed survey over the weekend. Saturday was the show. Nikon was not entered because there is this ridiculous rule that a dog cannot V if they are not surveyed by age 3.5 (and yet the SV and child organizations insist that there is no pressure to rush-title dogs.....) and Nikon already had an SG rating from an SV judge. I did get him out before the show and practice his gaiting and we did bitework practice after the show. I did some show photography and handled a few dogs. Willy (wildo) invited several of us over to his house for dinner so Nikon got to play on Pimg's agility course for a while and he and Coke both got awesome treats from Kathy (ponyfarm).
Sunday was the breed survey. Nikon volunteered to go first in bitework for the first timers. I know the survey bitework has been quite watered down but I try to take it seriously. We did the entire thing off leash without retries, just like a trial. Waiting to begin the heeling The attack Locking up before the out (I'm happy Nikon waited for the out command and then outed, I don't like early or anticipated outs) Guarding Telling the helper to step back and heeling away Long bite, Nikon was psyched and it was one of his best long bites Second out and guarding Waiting to stand for exam My favorite stack and front shots. I need to have a chat with Johannes, he keeps insisting that having the sun *behind* the dogs is better for photos because if the sun is behind the photog it makes the dog look washed out. I think he's nuts, does my dog look washed out in the two photos above? Having to lighten the photos just to see more than the silhouette of the dog is what makes a dog look washed out! At least my face is now really tan, lol. Nikon got a really nice critique. It took forever which made me nervous but people said the longer it takes, the nicer it will be. I can't remember the other measurements but he's 62cm tall and he got KKL1 for 2013/2014.
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Nice photos and I bet Willy had an interesting dinner! He posts so many nice foodie pics on facebook lol!!! Lee
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Great job. Johannes does take a long time developing the critique. Last year, Adi was 5 weeks pregnant and we had her stacked and staring at squirrels :-).
This year, Caro was great, as Gabor had to rush home and had Johannes do Dena's ( in full blown heat- I think it is an Indy thing....) 1st.
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ProvidenceWhen Michael Cimarusti left the stoves at Water Grill to start Providence, his fans were expecting nothing less than the Los Angeles equivalent of fish palaces like Le Bernardin and Oceana in New York, with a book-length catalog of Burgundies and Alsatian wines to boot. At this glowing restaurant, he managed to fulfill even those superhigh expectations — this is among the best, most civilized kitchens ever to hit Los Angeles. It just doesn't get better than Cimarusti's tartare of live spot prawns served with buttery leaves of brik pastry, sauteed squid with piquillo peppers and meltingly soft slivers of stewed pig's ear, or a terrine of foie gras with muscat gelee that may be the best foie gras preparation in this foie-gras-happy town. The dessert tasting menu of pastry chef Adrian Vasquez is a five-course degustation demanding and ambitious enough to command the attention of an entire evening, a universe of pureed avocado and hot cider foam. 5955 Melrose Ave., Hancock Park, (323) 460-4170. Mon.-Fri. 6-10 p.m., Sat. 5:30-10 p.m., Sun. 5:30-9 p.m. Full bar. Valet parking. AE, D, MC, V. Modern American seafood.
750mlBuenos Aires? 14th arrondissement Paris? It's hard to pinpoint exactly what the view from this bistro's picture window calls to mind, but the panorama of trees, century-old buildings and whooshing Gold Line trains is unlike any other in the Los Angeles area at the moment, a gleaming utopian vision that would bring a smile to any urban planner's face. 750ml, presumably named for the capacity of a wine bottle, is another venture from the owner of Malo and Cobras & Matadors, a tiny, expensive small-plates cafe with an equally tiny menu that works better as a full-on restaurant than it does as a wine bar. It's probably best not to come too hungry: hazelnut-dusted chanterelle ravioli are delicious, but there are only two of them in an order, and a portion of the mustardy hand-chopped steak tartare is small enough to qualify as an hors d'oeuvre. But the wine list, strong on choices from Spain and Southern France, is swell. And the clientele seems to average at least 20 years younger than the usual South Pasadena crowd, whose money tends to flow more toward bungalow restoration than to plates of beef shoulder with taleggio fondue. 966 Mission St., South Pasadena, (626) 799-0711. Daily 5-11 p.m. Beer and wine. Street and lot parking. AE, MC, V. French bistro.
Sonais an exquisitely Los Angeles restaurant, a serene bubble of luxury and refinement whose basic unit of consumption is the rippling, nuanced tasting menu, which changes with the seasons and with the whims of chef David Myers. Dinner here may include cubes of sansho-pepper-scented tuna married to sauteed sweetbreads, passionfruit cannoli stuffed with peekytoe crab, tiny Nantucket scallops flavored with dates and poppy seeds, and rare duck with red wine and pumpkin seeds toasted to resemble the exact crunch of its skin. Sona is the farthest thing imaginable from the Rabelasian assault of a brasserie. The morning after nine courses at Sona, it will already seem like a half-forgotten dream. 401 N. La Cienega Blvd., W. Hlywd., (310) 659-7708. Tues.-Fri. 6-10 p.m., Sat. 5:30-11 p.m. Full bar. Valet parking. AE, D, DC, MC, V. Modern French.
25 DegreesThe tiniest restaurant project from the O.C.-based team that brought us Dakota, Whist and Red Pearl is a bordello-style, flocked-wallpaper saloon with a big list of wines by the half-bottle, the chance to have Red Hawk or Crescenza on your cheeseburger instead of ordinary cheddar, and big Chinese takeout containers filled with herb-flecked pommes frites. The soundtrack is probably close to the one you played in your car on the way to the AC/DC concert, if you were into stuff like that, a grinding mix of '80s guitar rock played with enthusiasm and played loud. The single dessert is a slab of chocolate cake big enough to feed 10. 7000 Hollywood Blvd., Hlywd., (323) 785-7244. Mon.-Thurs. 5 p.m.-1 a.m., Fri.-Sat. 5 p.m.-3 a.m. AE, MC, V. Beer and wine. Valet parking.
Upstairs 2 Just above and affiliated with the Wine House and within shrieking distance of the 405, Upstairs 2, a small-plates brasserie pushed to the postgraduate level, may neither serve the most refined food in town nor have the most startling wine list, but it very well may be the best place on the Westside to go for food and wine — small portions of Todd Barrie's Mediterraneanized New American cooking accompanied by Marilyn Snee's roster of wines by the glass, separated into categories that expertly match up with the food as if they were microengineered for each other. Really, after seeing what Snee can do with a half glass of fizzy Dr. Loosen Sekt Late Disgorged 1989, I'd hate to see what she could accomplish with a few scant grams of plutonium. 2311 Cotner Ave., W.L.A., (310) 231-0316. Wed.-Thurs. 5:30-10 p.m., Fri.-Sat. 5:30-11 p.m. Major CC. Wine. Plentiful parking above Wine House.
Valentinoand V-VinEverybody's favorite Italian restaurants tend to serve perfected country dishes, rustic vegetables and grilled meats that replicate what a gifted grandmother might prepare for dinner in her Umbrian fireplace. But Valentino's food is as far from home cooking as any French chef's, and the wine book, one of the largest collections of Italian vintages outside Italy, contains as many adventures as any J.K. Rowling. Valentino has always been one of the most controversial restaurants in Los Angeles, loved by foodies who claim to have eaten the best meals of their lives in the dimly lit dining room and loathed by people who claim that the restaurant is a con job. It can be difficult to coax the best from Valentino. But although Valentino is quite expensive, the $85 tasting menu (and you're missing the point if you order anything else) seems almost reasonable. And if you plan ahead and discuss your wine desires with owner Piero Selvaggio, you will discover that the kitchen here works best when it is asked to cook to the contours of the wine. If you are in the mood to economize, a snack at V-Vin, the restaurant's wine bar, earns you a crack at the list. If you're going to hang out at a wine bar, you might as well head toward one that takes its wine seriously. 3115 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, (310) 829-4313. Dinner Mon.-Thurs. 5-10 p.m., Fri.-Sat. 5-10:30 p.m.; lunch Fri. 11 a.m.-noon. Full bar. Valet parking. AE, CB, DC, MC, V. Italian.


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The new pricing structure, what's next, and what to make of it all
Last week, we put out an [announcement](http://about.skype.com/2007/01/skype_takes_internet_communica.html) about our new pricing plans. I like to distinguish between facts and opinions. So here's a quick recap of the facts.
* As of January 18, a [connection fee of 0.039 € or equivalent](http://www.skype.com/products/skypeout/rates/connection_fee.html) applies to SkypeOut calls after the fifth second, with the exception in the next two bullets.
* The connection fee does not apply if you are on the Skype Unlimited plan in the US or Canada, or Talk for Britain plan in the UK.
* The connection fee doesn't apply to toll-free calls. You can do toll-free calls without having any Skype Credit or paying anything.
* The following regions were added to our Global Rate of 0.017 € per minute: Czech Republic, Guam, Hungary, Israel, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Puerto Rico and both Alaska and Hawaii in the United States.
* We are working on our new Skype Pro offering that, among other things, will have domestic SkypeOut calling in a number of countries with a connection fee but no per-minute charges. You can [sign up to receive more info by e-mail](http://www.skype.com/products/skypepro/), and it will of course be here on the blog. No date yet, but I think it's safe to say we will speak more about Skype Pro in weeks, rather than months.
* Nothing changed in the structure of our other prices (Voicemail, SkypeIn, or free Skype-to-Skype).
Now, as for what to make of this. This illustrates the direction that we're taking this year. Apart from free Skype-to-Skype calling and the other free features that will remain there, Skype is increasingly about providing good value for good money and the answer to "what's your business model?" is thus more clear.
I illustrate this with the example of our Skype Unlimited North American calling plan. When we introduced the free SkypeOut calls last May, it was a truly revolutionary offering and we massively increased our North American adoption over the year. When we replaced this with the Unlimited paid plan, we weren't fully sure how you would react, but by now, we can say that it has been a success both in terms of general feedback and also in actual sales. I can't talk about the specific figures, but it's really selling like crazy, it works well, people like and understand it. (I apologize to the very small percentage of those of you who have had trouble buying or activating it for whatever reason. Please keep working with our Customer Support and we will surely sort things out with you.)
So this plan is working well and it's really a model that we want to replicate elsewhere, with Talk for Britain in the UK being just one example. And the first form of this replication will be Skype Pro for a large number of countries, containing not only zero-minute-price domestic calls, but many other goodies. So you could say that Skype Pro is like a whole bunch of Unlimited plans rolled out for each of the countries.
We want to make things easier to buy. You like Skype because its free features are easy and fun to use, and we want to provide the same experience also for the buying journey. So far, you needed to make many choices about what exactly to buy, plus, you couldn't really predict the costs. With Skype Pro, you get all these great things in one great package. The cost is predictable across months, and the features combined in Pro will cost less than they would individually.
I don't think that the connection fee will really matter that much in the long run and in the grand scheme of things. Sure, some people are unhappy and will probably leave Skype. We still think that it all comes down to the whole picture — not only pricing that is of course important, but also the ease of use, quality and reliability of service that we pride ourselves in. We could tell you stories about how Skype had massive connection and growth trouble in the early days of SkypeOut. We think that by now, we've become pretty good at managing our growth and are fairly competitive with SkypeOut across the whole telco spectrum.
Bear in mind that we are not really talking beyond, say, the first quarter of 2007 in all of the above. You can expect a steady flow of announcements as we keep developing our paid offerings through the year.
32 thoughts on "The new pricing structure, what's next, and what to make of it all"
luisgerman said 7 years ago
Up to now I've been a fierce fan of skype, It was, for me, impressing the way how they grew in such a short period of time and how they called the attention of thousands of developers to integrate applications. Skype has now became a huge ecosystem and target of new business models.
What happened with all this great revolutionary concept? We would have to remember that Skype was bought by Ebay, and since then, the interests have changed. Ebay primary interest is, for sure, not to get the whole world talk for free. This "communist" concept of the P2P is not dominated by ebay. The ideal has been gone with it's creators that are now concentrated in the launch of a revolutionary internet P2P tv service.
But, why do I say all these things? It happens that last month, Skype announced that they would introduce a disruptive pricing plan. I was so curious about their next move, up to then every single new released exited me so much, that I was pushed to write articles with thumbs up and wondering about the future. Well, today I was pushed again to write, but for totally the opposite reasons.
Skype, as any vulgar cell phone company, introduced a connection fee of 4 cents for every call made with the Skype Out. Basically it means that for a normal call in Europe that in former times coasted around 2 cents/min, now you have to add this connection fee. That makes a one min call 3 times more expensive. Wow! how disruptive! Where is this going to? What happened with "The whole world can talk for free"? So, now after the people bought their Skype phones and all their hardware that just work with Skype, they raise the prices just because they know that people is tied up and won't switch so easily.
Is sad to say, but all of you that are thinking on buying any Skype harware should think it twice. Other companies such as VoIPBuster, offer free calls to most of the European countries and the US. Skype as a leader of the Internet calling companies have the efficiency to offer the best tariffs, but nevertheless it is the most expensive one nowadays. I see it coming, the day when they announce the next disruptive pricing scheme, and I wouldn't be so inaccurate to think about them charging the on-net calls. I'm switching now … see you on VoipBuster, or Jajah or any other. why paying more if the quality is roughly the same?
clau_sampei said 7 years ago
"I don't think that the connection fee will really matter that much"
"Sure, some people are unhappy and will probably leave Skype"
These are som the things I wouldn't like to hear from Skype.
miguel3090 said 7 years ago
Happy 2oo7, Skype
gd-jac said 7 years ago
I know you are actually paid to write nonsense but could you please kindly refrain from insulting our intelligence.
Beside adding a monthly subscription fee how does Skype Pro exactly make the cost more predictable as in any case we have to still buy credit to pay for international calls.
Maybe you and your colleagues could not figure out what to buy (do you have a disability ?), I personally never had this problem – every other month / month and half 10 euro of credit. What is difficult in that and how unpredictable it is ?
Kindly also keep your philosophical claptrap and the "grand scheme of things" (sic) to yourself as the connection fee does matter (especially that the service is still what it is). I bought 10 euro credit the day you announced your new disruptive (resic) price structure and my balance to date is only 4.71 euros
The real big problem of skype is that it is still populated by outright morons who believe that working in a cutting edge outfit means that they need at all cost to seem to be cool and hip hop and are convinced that they are communicating with other morons that watch MTV, reality T.V. and have a joy stick in their hands.
You are damn lucky you are not working for me, if you had submitted such inanity to me with a as a pearl "some people are unhappy and will probably leave Skype." I would have promoted you immediately to… clean the toilets.
A small friendly advise don't add insult to injury and have the intelligence and marketing acumen to rewrite your text and remove my comment.
realbufflo said 7 years ago
I, just as many others I'm sure, turned to Skype because of low international calling rates. I was looking forward to be able to pay a yearly flat fee, or even a flat fee plus a connection fee, for all my calls, when Skype Unlimited was announced in the US.
But no, instead you introduce a connection fee for the pay per minute calls, and propose a flat fee for domestic calling. Domestic calling, which is already super cheap in many countries.
You want to create new product and add "Pro" at the end? Please make it global, and let the whole world "talk for less™."
dickurob said 7 years ago
I, too, cannot see what is disruptive in adding a connection fee. Much of Jaanus posting was just corporate woffle, as he knows himself. The best thing about the comments was that I now know there are cheaper alternatives. I'm disappointed with you, SKYPE.
willagnew said 7 years ago
skype has clearly lost touch of what their customers want, not that they'll ever admit to it. the new "innovative and exciting" pricing structure is really an insult to our intelligence. um, hello?!?! we all know how to count!! you've just simply put the rates up, and for the short calls most of us make it's getting close to extortion.
skypepro isn't even a reality but we're supposed to be excited about it? give me a break. the only thing i'll be able to do with that service is call a landline in my own country, which i hardly ever do… and i mean hardly EVER! i, like most others here, are calling mobile phones almost exclusively in this day and age. what makes me want to get excited about skypepro?
skype, i know you can sense the backlash from your customers already. it'd be wise to drop the arrogance and maybe treat your customers with some respect. your corporate taglines are misleading and full of crap. we're not as dumb as you think. and to all those working at skype that are forced to write such utter garbage as that written above, you know you can do better somewhere else. you shouldn't have to sell your soul to the devil just for a paycheck.
gd-jac said 7 years ago
With all the due respect, It runs actually deeper than that. On jan 22, 2007 on this blog.
We're now going over everything that you guys have said on all of this over the past few days, more to come.
I suspect that they are actually really convinced that avatars and wallpapers are the answer.
elias_fe_greece said 7 years ago
One thing nobody mentioned…
The connection fee is enforced since Jan 18. The Skypepro scheme will be announced "…in weeks..".
If connection fees and Skypepro are supposed to be working in parallel (for any possible reason) and they are part of a disruptive policy, why are they implemented at different times? Why the "bad" connection fee is imposed on the spot and the Skypepro scheme is postponed for "weeks"? Why the announcement made, speaks for a new policy that will be released on the 18th of January and the only thing applied is the connection fee, and why this, even misleading announcement of yesterday, was made 5 days later?
All these are not good signs and at the best case scenario show amateur contact and careless behavour. What has been built over time needs only some moments to be destroyed and that is reputation and trustwortiness.
servis_jadu said 7 years ago
Well, mostly everything was said. The connection fee pressed me to look around and stop me to be a blind afficionado of Skype. I knew that there are cheaper and even better VOIP providers here, but I was a Skype fan.
I call domestic landlines a lot, mostly about 30-50 seconds per call. With Skype it was .023 EUR. Now it is 0.017+fee. We have here a VOIP supplier with the price 0.021 EUR with the 1+1 tariffication and VOIP-In number (0.025 EUR/month). It uses standard SIP protocol nad the quality is unexceptionable).
I was a "Skype volunteer" and had got about ten SkypeOut users. Now I have to tell them about the situation and appologize…
I will not ask to refund my money on the SkypeOut account, I probably use it time to time and in few years I will slowly spend it
yalding_wang said 7 years ago
I suggest every one that feel fooled and insulted to write emails to the custom service to complain and request refund for the credits.
"innovative and exciting", that's the most funny joke I heard in 2007.
parkkc2006 said 7 years ago
You see, there is not a single favourable comment about your DISRUPTIVE connection fee. I also agree the voice quality of other providers are as good. Instead of further reducing the rates to eventually get bigger volume, skype is driving us away. I bet the numbers of new skypeout customers won't be like before.
kiwijeanne05 said 7 years ago
To make this situation even worse, Skype Customer Service is not even responding to refund requests. I've submitted three separate requests for the same refund and Skype Customer Service has yet to respond to any of them. The 1st was submitted 4 weeks ago. Good luck getting your money back! I WAS a huge fan of Skype and recruited many friends and family. It's unfortunate that greedy big business has taken over. We can only hope that the majority of the 170 million Skpe users provide Skype with enough bad publicity that Skype if forced to respond. …apparently the pocket book is all that matters now with Skype!
phillip.shiu said 7 years ago
My two cents:
The connection fee is absurd. It compleatly disrupts Skype's moto and purpose. I would really like to know who proposed this: was it on eBay's side or Skype's side?Mr. Jannus, let me register my compleat (yes, that's correct spelling) disappointment with Skype. Be careful with your customer base… as they say "Don't get mad. Get even."
I agree with you. This is going bananas…And, did you notice Jannus hasn't said anything yet??
regulus05 said 7 years ago
'Now, as for what to make of this. This illustrates the direction that we're taking this year.'
— means robing our customers
'The connection fee does not apply if you are on the Skype Unlimited plan in the US or Canada, or Talk for Britain plan in the UK'
— who cares about domestic calls???!?!?!?!
'I can't talk about the specific figures, but it's really selling like crazy, it works well, people like and understand it'
— you mean you and others can't understand
1.7 c/min?'So far, you needed to make many choices about what exactly to buy, plus, you couldn't really predict the costs'
— dont insult my intelligence, HOW CAN YOU NOT PREDICT 1.7 CENTS PER MINUTE? WHAT PART DONT YOU UNDERSTAND?!?!?
'With Skype Pro, you get all these great things in one great package'
— refrasing: with skype pro we fill you with junk and get more money for it
'Sure, some people are unhappy and will probably leave Skype'
— i already left you twit. Hail LOW RATE VOIP, you pay 10 euro, you get 1 month free and then 1 cent per minute international calling and then all over again. Thanks SKYPE for making me SHOP AROUND
'We still think that it all comes down to the whole picture'
— which is all about money
I have requested a regund of my 1.60 euros A WEEK AGO.
phillip.shiu said 7 years ago
Let me add to your comments, regulus05:
"We think that by now, we've become pretty good at managing our growth"
— Oh really? What a showoff… 'Managing our growth', how can this get worse?? You are becoming more expensive than other methods of calling, e.g. calling cards, etc… and you still say "we've become pretty good at managing our growth"?
Seesh. Get a life, Skype. Or at least, get your old one back.
c.livino said 7 years ago
When I heard about this connection fee it felt like I'd just been handed a "DUMB" hat from Skype to wear. I'd just invested a considerable amount of money in Skype PC-less hardware so that I could benefit from the lower rates. Except that the rates are no longer lower than my local telco's. Skype Pro sounds alright but I think that Brazil will be left out of the best deals, as usual. Well, it's hard to get past the door wearing this huge "DUMB" hat but if I bend over I think I can manage it… Thanks for deceiving and disappointing your customers, Skype. Way to go.
phillip.shiu said 7 years ago
Concordado, c.livino. (translates to agreed for all non-portuguese speakers).
fishstink said 7 years ago
"So this plan is working well and it's really a model that we want to replicate elsewhere, with Talk for Britain in the UK being just one example. And the first form of this replication will be Skype Pro for a large number of countries, containing not only zero-minute-price domestic calls, but many other goodies. So you could say that Skype Pro is like a whole bunch of Unlimited plans rolled out for each of the countries."
why not one fixed fee plan for everyone, so people in india can phone the usa. if your blocking ISP from out side of UK or USA from buying the plans. Skype has always been international, like phones without borders(doctors with out borders, excuse me).
also Skype long term staff dont show so much arrogance, you dont know it all. take a lesson from the mistakes of apple, microsoft, ibm, amazon,ebay, and a host of other internet companies. Dont diss the users and dont mess with their money. i love my skype and would love to see it make lots of money. Just do it right. dump the connection fee, less arrogance, and listen to what is being said. NO BUTS OR IFS
thanks -
phillip.shiu said 7 years ago
Highlights from fishstink's comments, with emphasis (yes Skype, listen up!):
"…DON'T diss the users…"
— Ohhh, yah, Skype is certainly doing that. HELLO?! ECHO123?! HAVE YOU, SKYPE, BEEN EVEN LOOKING AT THE COMMENTS ON THIS BLOG?
"…and DON'T mess with their money…"
— Another thing Skype is good at. Look at how well they manage NOT to mess with our money: connection fees, a silly Skype "Pro", among others.
eBay is busting Skype, bigtime.
phillip.shiu said 7 years ago
Highlights from fishstink's comments, with emphasis (yes Skype, listen up!):
"…DON'T diss the users…"
— Ohhh, yah, Skype is certainly doing that. HELLO?! ECHO123?! HAVE YOU, SKYPE, BEEN EVEN LOOKING AT THE COMMENTS ON THIS BLOG?
"…and DON'T mess with their money…"
— Another thing Skype is good at. Look at how well they manage NOT to mess with our money: connection fees, a silly Skype "Pro", among others.
eBay is busting Skype, bigtime.
michaelmellner said 7 years ago
One comment from Italy.
I agree 100% with all the peopple let down by this connection fee thing. I have read the announcement they made in this blog (which I guess regards the USA and UK users) and still it is a lot better than what we have here in Italy. At least you guys could have various months of free out calls. We just had some minutes once in a while. As for a lot of guys, I quit with it. I recently find Voipstunt which gives 120 days of totally free landline calls to various world nations like UK, USA, Italy, Germany, and so on. The quality is just the same as skype but the normal fares even lower than skype's. Well, I bought 10 euros of credit and they gave me 120 days of free calls to sevaral countries. After these 120 days at the purchase of another credit I have another 120 days of free call. Definitely my choice from now on.To Skype: this is the best way to loose all of your clients. Go on like this and you end up with voipstunt as I do for your calls since you will have no more money left……….
Michael, Italy
peteclarkeisgodlike said 7 years ago
HMMMM…….wake up and smell the writing on the wall. Skype? Hello? is there something you aren't getting here?
It's big and it smells bad.. Yep it's the pile of customers walking away. You can always get new customers right. The growth of skype has been a word of mouth phenomenon, each user telling 5 or 10 of their friends. cheaper than advertising but now you have turned those ambassadors against skype. suck it up and take it back.Pete
ritamelosterling said 7 years ago
A few years ago I searched for a way to make calls without added fees like connection fees. When I found Skype I immediately swiched and spread the word around to all my friends and family. Everyone that I knew began switching. I have friends and family in Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Australia and Japan. In my circle alone that is like 30 people and each one has probably told another 30. Just as easy as people switched to SKype people will begin to switch to another carrier that offers a better plan. I will definetley begin looking for an alternative as I think what Skype is doing is wrong and the comments that have been made by Jaanus are so insulting that I will make it my time to make sure we switch to another carrier. Skype I am dissapointed!
oaksys said 7 years ago
It looks as though the non-USA Skype users are being made to pay for the massive overbid by Ebay when they bought the Skype business. Please tell me why the UK connection fee is 44% higher than the USA connection fee?
This whole thing has been poorly thought through by the Ebay management. I for one will not be funding such stupidity in the future.
goanretreat said 7 years ago
Having seen the announcement of 'disruptive pricing' I was full of anticipation having been wowed by Skype's abilities over the last 12 months of so and transferring my companies entire outgoing calls to Skype.
Well the connection fee is certainly 'disruptive' and almost certainly enough to cause me to change over time to another supplier. I can understand that prices need to be increased from time to time but if that is the case alter the price of the call which people DO understand and can calculate do not add 'additional charges' which people DO NOT understand and cannot calculate. Sorry Skype – another very unhappy customer here.
chrisspain said 7 years ago
A very dumb question,who is this Jaanus? An intern? The pizza guy that was quickly recruited to write a press release, because nobody else could bother?
Somebody telling the world, that the company doesn't give a rats ass if there customers leave, that it makes no difference in the big scheme of things (true, one company less, who cares?) can hardly hold a higher position in the company.
What are they smoking there and is anything left?
mxcurioni said 7 years ago
I did not learn about the connection fee pricing until I realized how fast my money was leaving my account…
I am probably a weird Skype user but I mainly use Skype to make 1-minute calls so that people can call me back on my online Skype or on my SkypeIn number. The new pricing plan is so disadvantageous to me and frankly, I am disgusted by it. I know eBay wants to monetize on Skype but one way is to keep loyal customers, not eject them with pricey calling plans. I have been purchasing Skype services for about a year and a half now and I have been happy because of one main reason: it is cheap and relatively reliable. I have endured connectivity and sound quality problems in the past, but I have stayed with Skype for that only reason.
The new pricing plan is the final step for me. I am leaving Skype for Yahoo! Voice because:
- the call rate is cheaper than Skype: 1 cent per minute instead of now 6 cent per 1-minute call
- it has no connection fee (until further notice…)
- I do not seriously think Skype/eBay is going to change their connection fee policy.I of course would want to be refunded like many users (about $15 for the remaining credit + SkypeIn + SkypeOut), but let's face it, I do not expect Skype to value my money nor my opinion. So I am going to use my credit until there is no more.
Too bad, Skype, you have just lost another customer.
krpasundarananda said 7 years ago
Well, most is already said. I only discovered when my credit ran low very quick, more than twice as quick as normal. Connection fees are nasty.
Often calls are not answered but you get machine. You pay 3x for a few second call that you have to make again, and again till you get the person. It was bad enough to pay the full minute for such calls.
Mostly Skype has good quality calls, but with my dial up connection the calls often drop so to complete longer calls I have to call three four times, paying connection fee each time. I can't say if Skype is at fault of the dropped calls but I surely feel cheated by the repeated connection fee.
Unfortunately I just added $30 but like other say once finished I'll dust off my "internet calls" account and call for a lot less.
Why not add .5 cent to the out rates, you may make more without offending customers. Connection fees are nasty, before Skype I always made sure never to buy calling cards that have this practice.
Anyhow it's a lesson not to buy into closed systems how ever good and idealistic they may seem. Sooner or later they will abuse their hold on the market. Better support the open standards so no one can get such control as Skype has now. It's not too late.
frazzlevoice said 5 years ago
I regstered with Skype and downloaded your software while everything else was still free just for one subscription (annual?). I have been seriously toying with subscribing to use the software to call landlines and mobiles anywhere for free and am very disappointed to read about typical telecoms charges being intorduced since the eBay takeover; this is just at a time when I need to start using it to call a local mobile number, because I neither have a Skype phone nor can feasibly use conventional telecoms to call him nor have him call me.
Thank you very much Skype and hope you sleep in peace in your Mercedes Benz!
kimetmichel said 5 years ago
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"As of January 18, a [connection fee of 0.039 € or equivalent](http://www.skype.com/products/skypeout/rates/connection_fee.html) applies to SkypeOut calls after the fifth second, with the exception in the next two bullets."NOT TRUE FOR ME!! Am I the only one who's being charged a connection fee after ONE SECOND ?
I know I used to be able to speak for less than 5 seconds without being charged, but that no longer works. In other words, now my credits are all being lost for those 2 seconds conversation where I tell someone "It's me, I'm here. Just log in to your Skype account".That sucks! I'll see if my phone company also charges connection fees for calls that are less than 5 seconds!
That's a really clever and selfish move from the Skype administration. -
jackwan1 said 4 years ago
A connection fee? I did not notice until I look at my history. When did it happen? I was about to introduce Skype to my 82 year old mom so she can make phone calls without using a phone card. This is absurd. I am switching as soon as I get my balance down to some thing more manageable…..


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