Don’t overlook the American Express / Dropbox offer

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• Nicholas says:

  5 Mar5 March 07:08

  Hilton bonus point offer has been extended to the 8th March

• Roger W says:

  5 Mar5 March 07:48

  Was considering buying some points with the Amex Gold Business to hit the £3k target. However the purchase page is in dollars rather than pounds. Would I then be paying currency fees?

  • Secret Squirrel says:

    5 Mar5 March 07:58

    Yes

    • Roger W says:

      5 Mar5 March 09:08

      Rubbish offer unless making up a few thousand points prior to a Hilton stay. Big box of Laithwaites wine for me then!

      • Anna says:

        5 Mar5 March 10:20

        I ordered a couple of cases last night, got 20% off with Blue Light Card and the email from Amex confirming the other 20% discount pinged shortly afterwards. So paying around £6 per bottle for £10-15 wines.

        • Cheshire Pete says:

          5 Mar5 March 11:13

          I mentioned this below as it’s also dropped one of our on BAPP. Like you we also get Blue Light as NHS worker. In addition we also get 10% back via Perkbox linked cards, So that’s getting on for 50% off now! Half price LPGS LOL!

        • Roger W says:

          5 Mar5 March 17:07

          Remembered I had a Blue Light card – Thanks. Linked my Military discount & Gold Card to one order and my Blue Light discount to wifes Gold Card. Quadruple bubble! Lovely wine. The Cabalie is excellent

• IanM says:

  5 Mar5 March 08:18

  I looked at the dropbox offer, but currently have a substantial amount of space for free so not sure why I would start paying. There doesn’t seem to be a substantial imcrease in facilities on a paid account.

  • Rob says:

    5 Mar5 March 09:01

    Depends when you joined. I’ve had it for years and have over 4GB free. If you sign up now you get a fraction of that. I do not have a device cap either, whilst I think new accounts are limited to three. Three devices doesn’t cover a household these days.

    It is an astonishing bit of kit and most people don’t give it the credit it deserves. Every file on my PC sits in a Dropbox folder. All of our household PCs, work and personal, are permanently synced. If I buy a new computer, all files copy themselves automatically. If a computer is lost, stolen or breaks, I have lost nothing. If I need to see a file on my home PC and I’m not at home, I can pull it up on my iPhone.

    • KBuffett says:

      5 Mar5 March 09:16

      Valid points. However, most people have an Office 365 subscription and this comes with OneDrive an excellent hosted email.

    • Doug M says:

      5 Mar5 March 09:55

      I have free Dropbox, had it for quite sometime, 5 years maybe. Around a year ago they implemented a 3 device policy. More recently they seem to have switched the file manager from the tray icon to some horrible invention of their own, rather than a standard windows file explorer view. I personally find OneDrive a much friendlier experience which sits better with Windows. As I’ve never paid Dropbox a penny I’m possibly being a little harsh, and I suspect Dropbox may fit better with the Apple crowd.

      • ken says:

        5 Mar5 March 10:06

        I like Dropbox but most home Apple users would use icloud.

        Dropbox works for business better imo

        • IanM says:

          5 Mar5 March 10:29

          Along with my comments above, I use both Dropbox and Onedrive (having an office 365 subscription) both are excellent, perhaps Dropbox has a slight edge – but when I looked at paying for an enhanced Dropbox I thought it was expensive and that really put me off because I don’t see that it;s worth it.

      • Neil says:

        5 Mar5 March 10:45

        You can disable the Dropbox app and just use the windows file explorer – it’s a selection at the bottom of the general tab in preferences.
        Overall I’ve found Dropbox far better than OneDrive. I’ve had multiple times where I’ve had issues with OneDrive synchronisation errors whereas Dropbox just works quite happily across multiple devices.
        OneDrive is better integrated with Office for obvious reasons, but if you set your Dropbox folder as your ‘My Documents’ then it’ll work perfectly.

        • Rob says:

          5 Mar5 March 10:49

          What is great about Dropbox, although other systems may do the same, is that anything I delete is still saved for a month. Very handy if you make a mistake ….

        • Doug M says:

          5 Mar5 March 15:02

          @Neil. Cheers, just changed, improves things.
          So if I’d set aside the tantrum and checked preferences I’d have been happier. I won’t learn from it.
          I prefer OneDrive, lots of space on a work account, although enough space on my personal one anyway. I think it’s more familiarity than any actual feature or benefit. No sync issues for me on either product.

        • ken says:

          5 Mar5 March 16:18

          OneDrive & icloud also have recover file within 30 days feature.

          Dropbox a great product & innovation, but Apple, Microsoft, Google will copy features relentlessly.

        • KBuffett says:

          5 Mar5 March 21:55

          I think OneDrive can be set to unlimited rollback with Office365

    • Optimus Prime says:

      5 Mar5 March 10:27

      I’ve had Dropbox since 2009 and I have the 3-device limit… On the other hand I have 16GB free 🤷‍♂️

• youngtraveller says:

  5 Mar5 March 08:45

  I started to pay for dropbox yesterday as I exceeded the free storage given, and although I saw the offer I had forgotten about it. Luckily I was set up to pay monthly. Added the offer to my account after getting a reminder from this article and changed my payment from next month to yearly so should be getting back around 38 which isn’t bad considering I’ll pay about 99. Not the same as the reader in the article but still good enough for me!

• Benilyn says:

  5 Mar5 March 09:49

  Talking about cloud storage, Google Photos free unlimited runs out in June this year for resized photos and videos. Have found this really useful, and their app is super good on iOS and naturally Android as well.

  What are good (free) alternatives? I guess Amazon prime does unlimited, my only issue is I share my account with my siblings 😂 so they may decide to login one day

  • Benilyn says:

    5 Mar5 March 09:50

    Or cheap alternatives*
    For photo storage and seamless sync from your mobile

  • Mr. AC says:

    5 Mar5 March 15:34

    No change if photos uploaded from Google Pixel phone – still free and unlimited. Handy since all my family is on (cheap) Pixels 3a/4a…

    Also, 100GB is £1.33 / month, which seems.. ok? Unless they raise the price later of course.

• Cheshire Pete says:

  5 Mar5 March 11:08

  A Wine Flyer offer has dropped in one of our BAPP supplementary cards. 20% off until April, max cash back limit £1000. This is basically Laithwaites.

• Aston100 says:

  5 Mar5 March 12:59

  Not sure I see any significant advantage for Dropbox over OneDrive.

• Ben says:

  5 Mar5 March 13:39

  Not a fan of dropbox – somehow they convinced my mum to sign up to a 1TB plan (she was using approximately 0.1% of her available space), and then when I tried to cancel on her behalf 1 day past the annual renewal, they refused citing their policy of absolutely no refunds. Obviously all in the T&Cs but fairly predatory in my opinion.

  • Rob says:

    5 Mar5 March 14:02

    There is an element of this. I keep getting warnings and I have 25% of my space left.

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