1. Originally posted by deanallison:If your subscription was due to run out at the end of the month take a look at your account. They’ve now moved it to the end of February for me, this probably suggests there will be no gift announcement until next month at the earliest.
    Mine was moved too. It is now Feb 29, 2020. It was Jan 31, 2020 just a day or 2 ago.
  2. What if they're delaying the 2020 announcement until it's ready to ship.. Then as soon as it's announced they can proudly say "and it's shipping straight away!"

    No? To far fetched?
  3. Originally posted by deanallison:If your subscription was due to run out at the end of the month take a look at your account. They’ve now moved it to the end of February for me, this probably suggests there will be no gift announcement until next month at the earliest.


    Great shout that.Mine was 16th Feb 2020,with the heading ‘Your subscription runs out within 30 days’ Mine has also been moved to 29th February 2020.Fair enough.I’m going with something to do with the Apollo gig from 2018 as a guess as the gift.
  4. If you renew on Feb 29 the subscription will be good until 2024.
  5. Originally posted by SJKamal:What if they're delaying the 2020 announcement until it's ready to ship.. Then as soon as it's announced they can proudly say "and it's shipping straight away!"

    No? To far fetched?
    I’d like to think you’re right but that seems unrealistic for u2.com.
  6. And I renewed yesterday! Now valid until 2021-01-31. If I waited 1 day, I could have "saved" one month. The 2020 gift better be good
  7. Originally posted by Happy24:[..]
    And I renewed yesterday! Now valid until 2021-01-31. If I waited 1 day, I could have "saved" one month. The 2020 gift better be good
    It's a remix of '13' called '13'(months).
  8. Originally posted by SJKamal:What if they're delaying the 2020 announcement until it's ready to ship.. Then as soon as it's announced they can proudly say "and it's shipping straight away!"

    No? To far fetched?
    Not possible as they need to know how much they need to make. So they wait until most people had their chance to renew or subscribe, and then based on predicted orders they make them.

    This is why the 2020 gift was so delayed, as they had to wait until after the tour sales for the gifts to be made (because many subscribed during the tour).

    This is normal though, as it makes quite the difference to produce 10,000 items of something or 100,000.
  9. Originally posted by Remy:[..]
    Not possible as they need to know how much they need to make. So they wait until most people had their chance to renew or subscribe, and then based on predicted orders they make them.

    This is why the 2020 gift was so delayed, as they had to wait until after the tour sales for the gifts to be made (because many subscribed during the tour).

    This is normal though, as it makes quite the difference to produce 10,000 items of something or 100,000.
    There’s nothing stopping them having a music gift available for download though when we subscribe, then if we have to wait for the physical item we at least have the music which is the main thing.
  10. Originally posted by deanallison:[..]
    There’s nothing stopping them having a music gift available for download though when we subscribe, then if we have to wait for the physical item we at least have the music which is the main thing.
    Definitely!
  11. Just a summary of what I think they could do to make the site better.

    Either a physical music gift every year(with download available instantly) or a show to download every year and the gift can be something else if they insist on it or if it’s easier than making it a cd every year .

    Full length videos of songs when they share them (which is usually one per show) instead of 30 second clips. They could be going back and making more stuff like that available from the past too.

    Better communication, don’t state shipping will happen at a certain time then fail to meet that date and fail to acknowledge it for months. Answer emails properly rather than these responses we get back that are generic. Keep us up to date, tell us why there hasn’t been a gift announced yet this year for example.
  12. I just hope they announce this week before mine runs out at end of jan