History Main / ThirtyDayFreeTrial

* Stan., Australia's own straeming service, also offers a free 30 day trial.

:: Much more useful were the floppies AOL (and some of its competitors) used in the 1980s and '90s… which could be erased and used for your own data. Many people never had to buy a diskette of their own even once, thanks to the mountain of them flowing through their mail slot courtesy of AOL.

* In the UK, Amazon offer a 30 day free trial of Amazon Prime. Became controversial when newspapers reported that people weren't being reminded their free trial was up; Amazon just started taking money if you didn't cancel.

* Stan., Australia's own streming service, also offers a free 30 day trial.

* ''Videogame/EVEOnline'' has a 14-day free trial. There are ways to get a 21-day trial, however.

* Netflix (at least in Canada and Australia. Pdobably most of the world) has a one-month free trial when you first sign up.

Thirty days is common, but any length of time counts.

* Netflix (at least in Canada) has a one-month free trial when you first sign up.

** [=mIRC=] does the same thing, except for 30 days. However, if you're far, FAR beyond the 30 day perioid (as in, several years), the program might ultimately refuse to work until you buy it.

* Music streaming service Spotify lets you use Spotify Premium for two weeks. You can download songs so you don't need WiFi to listen, there aren't any ads, and you can pick individual tracks instead of always shuffling.

* America Online's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_AOL#Direct_marketing_of_disks crazy free trial discs they sent out in the early 2000s]]... most people threw them away or collected them for fun. {{Smosh}} made several jokes about them:

* {{Steam}} frequently has "free weekends". Typically for multiplayer based games (the game in question also tends to be discounted for the same length of time).

** [=mIRC=] does the same thing, except for 30 days.

A 30-day free trial gives you access to a game or service for a fixed, limited amount of time without having to pay for it until the time is elapsed. After that, the trial period ends, and you'll have to dish out the dough if you want to continue. If it's a subscription-based service, you'll often be billed automatically for another month once the trial is over.[[note]]And if you want to cancel your subscription before the trial period expires, it's not unheard of for the vendor to make it difficult to actually cancel the service. They already have your credit card number, and may continue to charge you for services you no longer want until you go through the "proper" procedures, or dispute the transaction through the credit card company.[[/note]]

* Netflix has many different avenues of giving new customers 30-day free trials.

* ''VideoGame/{{Rift}}'' has a seven-day free trial.

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* Skype has the seven-day free trial of group video calling.

* ''Videogame/PlanetSide'' once had a ''Reserves'' event [[note]]Players were limited to level 6 (out of 25 at the time) and Command Rank 1 (out of 5)[[/note]] which included a ''one year long'' trial that [[WeHaveReserves stood up to its name]] by attracting a lot of players. The game also had a seven-day trial before and after the ''Reserves'', but a few years after the ''Reserves'' ended, the trials ended because they were very convenient for hackers - they'd get banned, then immediately make another trial account. The sequel switch to full free-to-play with {{Microtransactions}}.

* ''Videogame/PlanetSide'' once had a ''Reserves'' event [[note]]Players were limited to level 6 (out of 25 at the time) and Command Rank 1 (out of 5)[[/note]] which included a ''one year long'' trial that [[WeHaveReserves stood up to its name]] by attracting a lot of players. The game also had a seven-day trial before and after the ''Reserves'', but a few years after the ''Reserves'' ended, the trials ended because they were very convenient for hackers - they'd get banned, then immediately make another trial account.

* Playing ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' on an account that hasn't bought the game yet will limit the player to 100 hours (5 in-game days) of gameplay on a preset world, after which their only options are to reset the world or buy the game.

* For new registrants with [[http://www.ooma.com Ooma]], there is a free 60-day trial of their Premier service, which offers more features (for example, call forwarding and call blocking.) After that, however, you can either opt for the Basic service (which doesn't have all the bells and whistles, but doesn't have a subscription fee), or pay $10 a month for the Premier, whose features usually cost 3x as much with a regular landline phone plan.

A 30-day free trial gives you access to a game or service for a fixed, limited amount of time without having to pay for it until the time is elapsed. After that, the trial period ends, and you'll have to dish out the dough if you want to continue. If it's a subscription-based service, you'll often be billed automatically for another month once the trial is over.[[hottip:*:And if you want to cancel your subscription before the trial period expires, it's not unheard of for the vendor to make it difficult to actually cancel the service. They already have your credit card number, and may continue to charge you for services you no longer want until you go through the "proper" procedures, or dispute the transaction through the credit card company.]]

* ''Videogame/PlanetSide'' once had a ''Reserves'' event [[hottip:*:Players were limited to level 6 (out of 25 at the time) and Command Rank 1 (out of 5)]] which included a ''one year long'' trial that [[WeHaveReserves stood up to its name]] by attracting a lot of players. The game also had a seven-day trial before and after the ''Reserves'', but a few years after the ''Reserves'' ended, the trials ended because they were very convenient for hackers - they'd get banned, then immediately make another trial account.

* Free players of ''VideoGame/{{RuneScape}}'' can recently try a 14-day free trial of [[{{Freemium}} membership]] without having to pay.