Not sure if this quite qualifies for this community (after all - the ultimate frugal move would be to cancel Spotify and either just listen to the radio, or use YouTube/YouTube Music Revanced or UBlock Origin), but you can save a couple bucks a month on Spotify by buying gift cards and using those

Spotify gift cards are sold at a set number of months for a specific price, both of which are printed on the gift card, so they haven’t gotten around to reprinting or redesigning the cards with the up to date values yet, so they’re still sold in packs of 3, 6, or 12 months for $36, $72, or $144 ($12 a month), versus online where it’s sold as $14 a month ($13.99 if you want to be fussy). Which works out to 2 free months per year using gift cards

The gift cards last for 3 years (although I don’t know if they last on your account forever once redeemed), so you could theoretically buy 3 X 12 month cards for $432, then redeem them all, which saves $72, or 6 months worth of premium.

But they seem to be putting the prices up every year, so by the time they expire, a month of premium will probably be going for $16 or $17. Or $20 if they do what everyone else seems to be doing and shooting prices up disproportionate to replacement

Not much, and it basically only benefits people with enough money to actually drop 400 bucks on Spotify at once, but even buying a 3 month voucher saves about $6

  • felsiq@lemmy.zip
    3·
    2 months ago

    Not a Spotify user and haven’t looked into it myself, but I’ve also heard about people getting a subscription in countries where it costs less for some significant discounts. Maybe your gift card trick paired with that would let you subscribe in a foreign country without needing a credit card there?

    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
      2·
      2 months ago

      You’re right on that. Those sorts of deals for streaming services come up all the time on Ozbargin. You set your VPN to come from the country with the deal going and buy from there. It would be worth looking at some of the older deals on there for how it works

    • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I didn’t think of that, but unfortunately they’ve dashed our hopes and dreams with the fine print:

      You must have or register for a Spotify account and you must be 13+ and reside in the country of purchase.

      • felsiq@lemmy.zip
        4·
        2 months ago

        I think if this were a small company or one that paid more than the bare minimum to artists I might make the attempt to respect their T&Cs, but for Spotify…