Thank you, it took me so long 😭
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Amazing, so much for doing this. Literally going to do it tomorrow
Let me know how you go and if you run into any problems and I’ll try and help. Might be a lil slow in replying as I’ve had a very bad stiff neck for a week now but I’ll always be here pushing through :)
Absolute (profanity) legend!
Thanks for such an amazing writeup and details.
i had done this before your post so made the mistake of doing this on my main google account.
everything is working as it should be but google store is showing Turkey.
I deleted Australia account and re created it but nothing worked.
If i delete my turkey profile what happen to my youtube premium subscription, its a monthly plan as there is no yearly plan on it?
how can i keep my youtube on auto renewal in turkey and delete by turkey profile?
Hi, thanks for your comment :)
I guess if you delete your Turkey profile you can always sign up to Turkey Youtube again via a different account in the family. Signing up to Youtube is much more easier with less hassles.
Deleting the profile means Youtube can no longer charge you anymore… so you’ll have to re-sign up
@Tarun Tuli: It's not working for me. I'm getting the following message.
"You're already in a family group. Only the family manager, [family manager], can set up YouTube Premium for the family. Learn more"
Any hack for Microsoft 365/ OneDrive?
ISP back with the VPN hacks :)
Google tends to bring down the ban hammer without warning and for seemingly non-existent reasons. Any track record of Google flagging this?
@incipient Old wives tale, it would be all over reddit if this was the case.
it does happen, but it’s extremely rare and maybe they flag accounts who have suspicious activity or content. the majority 99.9% have not been banned
I've had my YT Premium through Argentina for a couple of years now. Even when I'd had chat support from Google they've never mentioned any issues relating to that.
Only if you're a content creator (YouTube or app dev)
Just be careful if you're thinking of using this as a backup with intent to bulk retrieve at a later date.
Google takeout is a f****n piece of s***t to use. Alot of media goes missing from the downloads, meta data is stripped and on separate folders. These issues have been going on for years and I don't think Google cares at this point to fix it.
+1 here. Do not take this advice lightly and is one of my main reasons for diversifying my Cloud solutions away from Google. I had 10+ years of photos on Google Photos that have all EXIF/Location/Image metadata stripped from Google Takeout (ending up as a useless JSON file that you need to find tools to re-patch the image with it).
+2 Even the download links are a total crap show. I had to turn off all plugins and blockers of all sorts just to get the damn link to work. The worst thing is you only get one try per link so if you happen to accidentally cancel it or have an error due to ad/script blockers, you have to request and wait the 1-2 days again.
What do people recommend as an alternative?
Personally, I just went with iCloud. I'm an iPhone user anyway and it ties in perfectly with the ecosystem. But it's comparing apples to oranges as Google Photos face and image recognition is miles ahead of anything else.
For those on non-iPhone/Android phones, Google Photos is really your only viable alternative. There is Amazon Photos and DropBox etc. but the integration with the phone isn't as good.
What I would say is for those that can't leave Google Photos, at least back up your photos to another service at the same time. It's a bit more expensive, but worth it in the long run.
Office 365 with each user gets 1tb
Have you tried using Rclone to bulk download?
"When Images are downloaded this strips EXIF location (according to the docs and my tests). This is a limitation of the Google Photos API and is covered by bug #112096115.
The current google API does not allow photos to be downloaded at original resolution. This is very important if you are, for example, relying on "Google Photos" as a backup of your photos. You will not be able to use rclone to redownload original images. You could use 'google takeout' to recover the original photos as a last resort"
Tried a few times over the last year. Just can't get it to work lol. Ended up buying an old pixel phone and using syncthing.
Last time I opened up an incognito tap in Chrome on my phone. That did the trick
I was getting the Turkish prices, but when I selected it reverts to AUD :(
I have YouTube premium India, but was not able to start my Google's one membership as it rejected the payment. Any idea if this is w common error?
I was just about to ask if YouTube premium India family account would cause issues signing up to this?
Yes, it's common error now. Try YT Argentina or YT Turkey.
i have youtube premium India. How to change it to YT argentina or YT Turkey? Do I need to get a new gmail address?
I cancelled the YT India subscription. and then subscribed to YT Argentina. Worked well so far. Used the same Gmail.
I also have YT premium India. Can I still use this hack? Will it affect YT, or I need to get a new gmail address?
Thank youBest to leave that account alone and use another account to sign up to Google One
Thanks OP. Greay wrightup
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@jv: He must not have checked for a while - you’ve got coloured bunny ears now. Was previously grey scale.
wow, that's crazy savings but also crazy effort and workarounds to access the savings… Not sure I'm up to the challenge or if it's worth the trouble when/if google finds out?
Does this need to be done on an annual basis when renewing?
Great post but anyone using this as a single storage / backup location should be weary that Google has in the past straight up banned people under ToS with no warnings for doing similar 'workarounds' and they've lost all their data.
Reference?
There are numerous Reddit/OzB/other tech forum posts about it. I'm sure some searching will find you the references you need :)
So none, except Do your own research?
@M00Cow: No, there are quite a few. You can even find multiple people reporting the bans on the previous deal, linked in the 2nd sentence of this post.
Reposting this deal from last year
In case you're unable to scroll to the top of the screen, here's the link: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/710753
It's not my job to post every single possible reference to it if people don't want to do the bare minimum of searching themselves, even when it's linked at the start of what they just read.
It's not my job to post every single possible reference to it
You made a substantial claim, without any evidence. Then someone asked for a reference and you generically said its on OzB & Reddit, again without any evidence.
Your link above doesn't appear to do that either.
Plenty of people make stuff up and post it on here (and heaven forbid onreddit). It doesn't make it true.
@M00Cow: Ok, I wasn't claiming to have specific first-hand evidence though? The link in the original post does have people reporting that it has occurred for them. When I see a workaround like this, especially one that has been previously posted, I tend to do a quick search on the previous post and on Google / forums to see user reviews / comments on service. That's the best you're going to get from anyone on the internet, so how would me linking a hypothetical scientific report / controlled survey change that? They're still written by people you don't know, with unknown trustworthiness and sourced on the internet.
The facts of the matter are that Google's ToS prohibit these sort of actions, which means they are able to suspend and cancel your service / account. Whether or not if you want to believe other persons' comments on the internet is up to you.
YMMV, so take whatever you want away from my original comment.
@harro112: The OP re-posted the deal that they also posted 6ish mths ago. They linked it in the second sentence of the post. There are clearly people posting on that last post with reports of their accounts being suspended / banned.
If you're going to the effort of requesting proof, should you not also go to the effort of viewing the last post from 6ish mths ago (linked at the start of the post) where it would be more likely to have information about any repercussions from completing the workaround?
@harro112: There's no burden on him to do anything. It's not like he has published medical research in a bloody thesis!
He's a guy on the internet offering an info which may or may not be factual. The burden is on anyone wanting to take advantage of this bargain to do their own research.
Didn't plan to make a scene, it was a true question. Why would anyone risk getting banned from Google for a saving of $100 a year? That's what I'm trying to understand
@BargainCowboy: You had every right to enquire about a reference. At least you didn't make accusations or have unrealistic expectations.
Agree, not worth risking your data or getting banned.
Don't even know what google takeout is, but pay $2.50/m for 100GB Google One (and never used over half really). Would need too much space to store my lossless cds but they are on various hard drives.
I seriously want to invest the time to save some $$$. I’m a heavy Google and YouTube subscriber… but I am wary as all my virtual eggs are in the one basket.
Surely Google would work this out and restrict or ban my account?Invest in a pixel 1 and get free unlimited storage?
What about the family though
Vin Diesel has entered the chat
Get a pixel for everyone? Or manually switch accounts logged in on the pixel then do bulk backups
Hey, any more info on how this works? I have an old pixel 2 lying around
Pixel 2 will lose unlimited storage at original quality on Photos starting on Saturday, January 16, 2021. After that date, Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL owners will need to either use “High Quality” backup, which compresses photos and videos, or they’ll need to continue with “Original Quality” at the expense of Google One storage.
Just set the photo quality to high quality on your pixel 2 Google Photos backup. Disable photo backup on your current phone, install SyncThing and get it to sync the Camera folder from the new phone to the Pixel 2 so that it handles all the uploading to Google photos.
Periodically delete all the local photos from the Pixel 2 when it's running low on space.
Or if you have a spare arvo, unlock the bootloader and install a custom ROM. PixelExperience is pretty good (naturally). Or you can use any ROM, install Magisk and Zygisk, then install Pixelify. I just did the latter today and now my Pixel 2 XL has all the latest AI features that the Pixel 7 Pro has including all those awesome call features. 🤑
Link?
Would have to be the first owner and buy new.
Only for photos taken with that device isn't it..I don't believe it has to be the first owner – as long as you have activated the device on your account, you will have it. The old owner would relinquish the privilege after they sell it.
Only for photos taken with that device isn't it..
Not necessarily. Although, I find this a bit annoying to do, so I only use it when I know I will produce a large volume of long videos (e.g. at a concert or on holiday). If so, I turn off Google Photos backup on my primary device, then sync the photos across to the Pixel. I then delete the photos off my primary device, and resume Google Photos backup for my day-to-day photos.
Can never get this stuff to work. If im not signed into google it shows in Lira, as soon as i log into it goes back to AUD
It might be your Australian payment profile redirecting the payment to AUD. Please read the entire post to see my workaround if this is the case.
Sometimes it shows AUD initially but when you click on the plan you want, it switches to TRY
I have an Argentina payment profile from YouTube premium and added a Turkiye profile but I still only see AUD
Our family has 20 accounts so we should be fine, 15gig*20 pretty generous.
There is a limit to the number of members for a Google Family?
Good for you.
Yea… I am pretty sure the limit is 5….
Thanks OP. I was just about to sort something out as my 200Gb plan is at 190Gb and I wasn't really keen to jump to a 2TB plan in AUD. I don't know why Google don't have any plans between 200Gb and 2TB. Anyway, thanks heaps! I will give this a good read and follow what you have done. You are awesome!
Thank you :)
I deleted my turkey payment profile(family manager) and only have Australian, but my google play store is still Turkey any idea?
You need to change your country of origin, go to: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7431675?hl=en
The only thing ive found with this is the same as the OP, you family profile and Country is now in Turkey, plus because i had to delete everything to change back to AUD i cant resubscribe….so will wait to have until it expires.
Hmm, I’ll have to look into this (it’s hard as I do not have an Android)
For now, my workaround is to create a new Google account purely to be used for downloading Australian apps on the Play Store.
Thanks i'll just do this for now
If i delete my Turkey payment method what will happen next year when my subscription will be due for renew? Theh will charge me for Turkey pricing or Australian?
If you delete your Turkey payment method, the currently subscription effectively is cancelled (you still have the full month or year access depending on the plan you chose).
Once it plan expires, come back and sign up again. You only do it once a year, well worth the savings :)
thanks for the answer. if i don't cancel it and after one year change country back to Australia what would happen? My payment still be in TRY? Or i need to do this whole sing up process again?
If you don’t cancel it and assuming you make no changes to your account, it will continue charging/renewing in TRY. You can always check in your Google One account and see what the next charge will be
@XCelR8: I’ve stressed this many times in the post as it’s the main biggest problem here. Thanks for reminding :)
You'd want to cancel the sub before this and do the process again. Even if you forget to renew, your data will still be there, just unable to upload as you'll revert to bugger all storage (free account)
Word of warning that doesn't get noted.
If you change to Turkey you are gonna get Turkish app store.
It can't be changed. Unless you cancel.
Updates will still work with your Aussie apps but that's it.
So don't use your main Gmail.
I have had a similar issue.
I made a new Google account based in Turkey and signed up to Google One. Added my 'main' google as a family member. Now my 'main' account Play Store is locked in TRY. I can't download some Aussie apps on my main account anymore.
Google support can see my 'main' account is based in Aus, all my payment methods are Australian and they can't find a solution.
Upvote for the clear explanation though. I must have done something different in the past.
Sheesh your living on the edge asking Google for help with rorting their system. There's plenty of posts in Reddit or here explaining how to get it back to Australia
Can only change it like once a year or something too
I have a workaround for this if you're on Android. Just create another google account based in Australia and add it to your phone. Whenever you want to download an app from Australia, just switch to the Australian Google account by clicking on the top right in Play Store.
Then you'll have access to the Australian Play Store.
+1 Exactly as I stated in the notes section. It’s the only workaround I know, and takes like a minute to do. Once you make the account just leave it signed in on the Play Store, unless you want to get paid Turkey apps for cheap then just switch it
That's the workaround I've been using. Just not ideal.
Is there a way to create a new google account without using a phone number?
Lot of effort all this lol and risking your Google account
Appreciate the formatting :)
Thanks mate 😌
Hmmm, aren't these country spoofing "bargains" against most services ToS? Definitely can't do it on steam for example
So what is the use case for this anyone?
Seems too dangerous to use on your main account, and if not on main account, what is then the purpose of the storage?Purchase on a dummy account and share to the main via Family Sharing?
One potential problem is you won't get google survey credit, which is about $120/yr for me, which pays for my google one account & plenty of free stuff.
Wtf that's good coin. How
Apparently Woolies, JB, BigW, 1st Choice, all like my option. Obviously Google is the antithesis of my wife and Kids
Same thing for me, Google Rewards pay everything. Coles, Woolworths, BigW, Priceline, etc
How do you do that?
Will it save more if I cancel and re-subscribe since I joined last year?
Nope, you’ll get charged whatever the current conversion rate is. Just leave it
I'm not sure you can continue your subscription throughout the year if you have already signed up in Turkey???
What do you mean exactly?
@I Smell Pennies: Can you continue your subscription if its cancelled?
I just checked mine and it doesnt let me add extra time? Interesting.
I have encountered the two problems op mentioned and all solved with the two solutions. 👍
Wow thank you 🙏🏽 I’m glad I got it right and it helped you
Probably not going to use that much storage, but I feel like I owe it to OP for upvote for the massive effort in explaining steps by step.. Hats off..
Thanks so much <3
Hi OP. Thanks again for this post. You are a legend! I have a question…I have currently have a 200GB account that I share with my family (almost full at 190Gb). There is NOBODY in my family with an iOS device (we all run Android). Here is what I was thinking…Create a BRAND NEW Gmail account as the new MASTER EMAIL and subscribe to the Turkey deal. I will create this on a PC? I can then add my original email and my other family members to this new MASTER EMAIL (and then cancel my 200Gb subscription). Thoughts?
Hey there Tony, thanks for your comment. That idea would be great! Thinking outside the box - I love it!
So here’s what I’m thinking…
Scenario:
we all run Android
Since you have an existing family, please don’t leave the family as you won’t be able to join a new family for 12 months
My solution:
Create a BRAND NEW Gmail account
as the new MASTER EMAIL and subscribe to the Turkey deal.Then add this brand new account to your existing family. This account will be the one used to sign up to Google One (but it won’t be the master email, or the family manager - it’ll simply be a regular account). Add a Turkey payment profile to this new acc and sign up as usual. Afterwards everyone in the family will have a Turkey Play Store. Delete the Turkey payment profile and everyone should get their Australian Play Store back.
I think this is the only method that works - I haven’t actually tried it yet so beware of what I say and read other forums I’ve linked to previously. Also other comments on this thread could be useful. When I find time over the next few days I’ll do some testing
Awesome, mate. Thank you :)
I might give this a go also.
@I Smell Pennies were you able to test this? I'm in the same boat, and I have two family members attached to my YT premium on the main, so I'm afraid to go ahead with this. I do have a Turkish Google account that I used for Disney+, so I'm guessing I can add that to my family, then sign up using the Turkish account?
@chet I haven't sorry
@I Smell Pennies: @I Smell Pennies No worries! I can test it out, my Google One runs out on the 28th on the main, so I'll report back on the 1st of March. Great writeup btw!
@I Smell Pennies: @I Smell Pennies
Just got it working for me!
For some reason, Windscribe wasn't connecting to Turkey on my PC, so I used the Getflix app on my iPhone to connect to Turkey, but I guess the Windscribe app could do the exact same thing. Here's the steps that worked for me.
- Open the Getflix/Windscribe app and connect to Turkey
- Check your IP address to make sure it's connected to Turkey
- Open a Chrome/Incognito window without a Google account logged in and go to the Google One plans page
- Select your plan, then create a new Google account. Use an Australian phone number
- You'll be prompted to add your credit card details. ING Everyday card worked for me. Keep the Turkish location, you won't be prompted to enter an address
- Confirm that the plan has been added to this account
I was able to do the following on my PC:
- On the main account holder, go to your Google Families page and add the new Google account
- On the new account, don't accept the invite because it will fail
- Instead, head to the Google Pay page, add a new payment profile for Australia
- Once this has been added, at the top of the page, select the Turkish payment profile
- Scroll to the bottom and click Close Payments Profile
- Enter your password to close the Turkish profile
- Go to Gmail and accept the Family Invite
- Head to the Google One page, click the Settings cog > Manage Family Sharing and switch this to On
- On your main accounts, head to something like Gmail or Google Photos and confirm that you have the shared storage. Mine does say 2.1TB because the main account still has access to Google One until tomorrow, and I didn't want to loose access to sending and receiving emails.
As the Turkish payment profile has been deleted, it may try to charge your AU card. In that case, I would cancel after signing up to avoid this, and make sure you have two family member slots if you want to alternate between accounts.
fantastic write up as always :)
Thank you :)
My current AUS annual subscription expires on October 2023. Will I get a refund if I cancel?
T&Cs say no, however you can always ask Google support. They refunded my Google One sub when I was doing testing last year. However given you’re nearly half way through, I don’t know
Thanks
Are there similar deals for Microsoft 365 subscriptions?
Curious about this too!
Thanks for the detailed post. However, just a correction that profit will be 64.93% for 10 TB monthly plan.
Thank you, I’ll update the post :)
Looking for some similar deal in Netflix. Please help find one. Used YouTube trick already.
My man.
Thanks for writing this up. I followed the tried doing it a few days ago and stuffed up as i didnt add my main account to the dummy family account BEFORE making payment. Ill try again with your guide.
Anyway, sooooo. You got any way to get around paying full price for spotify? :D
Nice writeup but it would be nice to see a column showing the annual price in AUD (same as your title)
Have I not done that?
oops you have too, soz didn't notice the 2nd table
No worries at all :)
For existing customers on Google One under steps in Instructions (Transferring from a different country)
Does we need to toggle the Manage Family Settings to off prior to subscribing for the new Google One and then toggle back to on again as in Step 7?
Step 7: To share with family members, you need to turn on family sharing after signing up to share the storage. To do this, go to https://one.google.com/settings, then click "Manage Family Settings" and toggle it on.
I’m not too sure, I don’t think so? If anyone knows please comment :)
max storage i can see is oly 2TB, anyone know how to see 2TB+ on monthly or yearly?
I seem to only get those options after signing up to the 2TB plan. Not sure but you can try sign up to the 1 month 44c plan and if there’s an option to upgrade to 2TB+ (you can definitely upgrade and downgrade, but I’m not sure to what extent)
SIGNUP for 2TB, once its done goto upgrade again, you can go up to 30 TB
Thanks, let’s see how Google manages to backup 70k photos
What happen if I have got a exisitng Google one plan with 200G storage and currently I have 120G in my cloud drive.
How to transfer to Turkey without affecting my existing data?
ThanksBest to just let it expire first then hop on to this deal, rather than transferring
Thanks. When it expires, will I still have my data or they will be deleted?
You still have access yes, you just can’t upload more
To avoid all your devices changing to the Turkish play store, all you need to do is:
1. Make sure the family manager is an Australian account
2. Use a different account (ie. Burner account) to join the family and setup Turkish payment profile
3. Setup Google One, share, and away you go.Result: Main account gets shared storage and keeps Australian profile.
Oh very interesting. So it seems the family manager is the one that controls every account (I mean.. duh 🤦🏽♂️)
So as long as we don’t relocate family manager to Turkey, everyone stays in Australia and gets the Aus Play Store.
Thanks! I’ll add to OP
Do either of you know whether there is there a way to switch the family manager after the manager is already the Turkish burner account?
Without cancelling the family group, as there's already a sub in place etc
I don't think so - I think cancelling is the only way. But I would assume subs follow the individual account and can be shared with the new family?
Don't you get the message saying something about 'family member is another country'?
If not, defs going to try this
Nope - follow the steps in the exact order. Join the group whilst you have the AUD profile, then change to TRY after joining
Seems no matter what I do the burner will show AUD while within the Australian family… I can't get it to display Turkish pricing at all unless I leave the group.
At this stage I think what works is:
- Start family with main account with Australian payment method
- Create burner account and pay for the subscription with Turkish payment method
- Kill the Turkish payment method in the burner
- Add an Australian payment method so you can join the Australian Family Group
- In Google One settings, turn on Share Google One with familyWhen the subscription is due for renewal the burner will need to leave the group, change payment method from Australian to Turkish and repeat the steps.
Is this correct?
If anyone has any other solutions please let me know!
Price will display as AUD for the burner account but will charge in TRY with TRY prices!!!!
Yes you need to click through past the AUD pricing to get actually charged TRY
I tried to do this but it says that we are not in the same country and it wont work
Now I hv a Burner account with Turkish profile on One Subscription. My main AU account has several payment profiles (US for domains, IN for YouTube and AU for all other stuff - but I also hv a Turkish Payment profile)….cannot add AU profile to Burner account with One Sub…where am I going wrong?
what are people storing so big that they dont have privacy concerns
4k 🌽
I signed up on main account n bought the storage.
Now i am trying to add my REAL account in family group n encountering this error
Can't join family group
It looks like you're not in the same country as the person who invited you. Learn moreI tried to set my REAL account address to Turkiye add but its still giving me same error.
Any thoughts?
I did note that you will have to get your family together before signing up to this deal, because after you won’t be able to
Ya i realised that now :)
I wish it was as simple as signing up for YT premium :(
I am willing to pay to anyone to get it working for me. LolDelete your Australian payment profile and create a Turkey one. Be aware of all the notes in the OP though. Such as stuck in Turkey.
I have tried everything and it's still showing me Australian plans.
Try deleting all your payment profile and setting up and signing up for a new payment profile with a foreign address
Given I have the mixture of iOS and android devices
and using Google One tax invoice to claim tax deduction as work related expenses
seems not worth the risk of moving to turkey …Anyway, appreciate OP's detailed explanation and steps, definitely worth a upvote!
Yandex drive is way cheaper
I believe Google One is more than just cloud storage
The entire family can share the same storage quota including the use of Google Photo, Drive, Gmail etc
which I believe its not an easy move to Yandex for all these services
AU pricing or TRY?
Error
Something went wrong on our end. Please try again.Getting this error anyone knows how to fix this ?
Same problem with me, still can't get it to work with some fixes after googling the error.
Need this for Adobe. So expensive.
Adobe is super easy to bypass, you don't even need VPN
Link? Thanks.
A++++ for effort
Legend!
Hi OP, worked like a charm, I used a spare email address to do all the payment stuff. Deleted the Turkish payment profile and added an Australian one.
Now the question is, what happens after a year? There is no subscription linked to my profile anymore.
Actually found this in my subs, TRY 289.99/ year
Cancels on 16 Jan 2024We might need to go through this again before it renews, otherwise it will automatically cancel.
Tempted to get this with my 2nd account. But if we need to repeat each year, I dunno if I want to risk my account from being banned? Thanks for your info btw.
Good deal if you are willing to risk that this could end at any moment.
I'd much rather OndeDrive for $90/yr, includes Office and 6 X 1TB accounts.
I think they dropped the price of OneDrive with a new basic plan which would be even cheaper than $90/yr?
This apparently USD20 /yr for 100gb
Edit: doesn't include officeHe is talking about the One Drive Family Plan with 6 X 1 TB account
I do have the One Drive Family Account for the same reason.
However, I am having a lot of issues syncing plus One Drive seems to be using 20% of my CPU resources as "something" seems to be always going in the background.
Google Drive has been very reliable fast in Syncing with no errors
Any possible tips for One Drive
Anyone know if this stacks? I was successful with the last deal so I currently have a 2TB annual plan that I still have 6 months on. I deleted my payment method and wonder how I will go about renewing it?
Thanks guys
Can you stack multiple years at once? Saving the hassle to renew and worry about payment profile next year.
This is exactly what I'm worried about. And if my 20 year-old Google account somehow got banned as a result of this I'd be screwed.
So if I'm already paying for Disney+ through Google Play/turkey on my secondary account, I'm better off to using this account and share with my main account?
Does this also work with Google Workspace plans?
For those who can't be bothered but want free subscription….download the Google rewards app, answer a few survey questions every week and you'll have enough google store credit to just purchase with an Australian subscription. This is what I'm doing now. Works well.
Each survey takes about 10 seconds or less and gives you 10c to 70c depending on answers.
Not available on iOS
That sucks!
I have been getting a popup in that app saying "rewards are changing" or something, and offering to update the app. I haven't updated it yet. Do you know what the change is?
Upvote for the time,
but I would be to afraid that Google somehow decide to ban/lock accounts that use this kind of method. My account is worth more than this saving.Not saying it will happen, but I've seen a numerous time people getting their Google account closed, and could not appeal.
This is what I am worried about. I can take risk for any other service but google account.
Thank you so much for this, I have successfully updated my plan for the prices you mention and thanks again for a such an amazing writeup and details.
WTF - I paid $25pa (I think AUD) for Google One 100GB a few months ago
and now I see $4 for 200GB !?!?!?
"@ Google Turkey (VPN Required)" ? - meh
Thank you so much for the efforts,
i think i have an easier solution to this, and no need for VPN to do it, which is actually what i did.
Firstly, the main reason for my method was for family sharing, and it actually worked perfect.
1- Create a new account, Australia, and add it to family members, doesnt matter who the admin is (mine was still my main account, which also have YT premium in it). and add payment method in it, your card the australian one.
2- make sure it is a family member (that is why it was created as australian account), then change country, payment address, and all information on the second account to turkey, no need for VPN, just settings in google. (change it through manage payment address).
3- login with the new account on your android device (add it as a secondary account on google play, without signing out of your primary).
4- open google one using your second account, and go to subscriptions, you'll find it all in AUD, do not worry.
5- Click on the package you want, even if it is in AUD, next (half window) which confirms payment will be in TL (NOT AUD) and will give you the numbers you mentioned in your post. just click the one you want and buy it, preferably yearly. (it will not be a case if you should add the payment to your account or whatever because your payment is already added as part of google pay from primary account if you didnt add your payment card in step 1).
6- you have to go to your settings of your secondary account and share storage (by default it is set to off because you are not admin).
7- simply through google play store switch back to your primary account and you'll have full access to 100% of storage capacity without any issues. and since your primary account is your admin account, you still can add whoever from your family to this tree.
8- if you have family package of YT premium, and since your secondary account is in your family package, you'll lose 1 slot of family members to your secondary account, that means you'll also have YT in your secondary account as well.i did it my self and working with it no issues, and anytime i simply switch to my secondary account and upgrade or downgrade subscription at anytime without hassle of steps again. secondary account is fixed at turkey rates. and primary account is legit.
Where you say "change country, payment address, and all information on the second account to turkey", exactly where do you mean? I can't change my credit card payment details to Turkey (from Australia), Google says "you need to create a new payments profile to move to a new country". So do you mean I need to create a Turkey-based payment profile? If so do i have to close the Australian one?
Yes, you have to create a new Turkey profile and delete australian one, so you can set Turkey profile is default address.
do not forget to delete it AFTER YOU BECOME A FAMILY MEMBER.
Does the payment method address have to be the correct AUS one to match what my VISA card provider expects? Only the payment profile needs to be Turkey?
@juzdownunder: it has to be turkey, it wont matter the billing address for the bank, just put it as turkey all over your profile.
Hey mate, you're suggesting that on the secondary/turkey gmail account to remove the payment/address details after processing the transaction?
@whipcracker: Sorry, just noticed that i missed someone's question, apologies for late response.
no, after doing the payment, leave everything in the secondary account as it is, so you keep the turkish rates for future transactions.
what i meant by delete your address profile of secondary account was only to remove australian address ***AFTER**** you became part of family membership. otherwise if it was created turkish first, you'll not be able to accept invitation as you'll not be in the same country as admin.
Main account (family admin) still has full access to Australia play store with no issues?
100%, using it daily , i mean minutely or even secondly. no issues at all, all payments working, actually not only payments, even apps preferences, all searches, everything as original, even indian YT premium is still working and sharing with family members.
HAVE ALL MY UPVOTES! THIS IS CORRECT!
It shows as AUD but charges in TRY with the TRY price!This is exactly what happened when I had my Turkey account as the family owner and had joined with my main Australian account - all prices shown were TRY but when I paid it was AUD!
I can't believe I didn't think to try the reverse haha!
Thanks for this! Worked perfectly.
Upvoting this, as I've just done this and it has worked fine. Took a while for the Google One app to show family settings to be able to share, so you might need to close and open the app again, or clear cache etc maybe. Winning :)
hi mate, I am sure I am following your instructoins word for word but in the end, i get an error 'Something went wrong on our end. Please try again later'
Could that be something on my main account causing this? i have tried making at least 3 burner accounts, same result
Hi mate,
can you please explain exactly what steps did you take? in details please all the way to the error.
hey mate, I am getting exactly the same error, even after 2 days thinking it could have been a glitch due to caching. Were you able to get it resolved?
Thanks for the write-up. Question, when you say to change payment details in the 2nd step, do I create a Turkey payment profile, then delete the Aus one? Or should I delete the Aus one first, before creating a Turkey profile?
you cannot delete a profile and be profile-less, so you got to create turkey one first, then delete AU.
I went in to edit my aus payment settings and changed the address to a turkey one, without having to delete anything. Is this right?
Now when I go to step #4 and log in to google one with my phone using the turkey profile, it's telling me that I can't change my membership plan and that I have to "… talk to your plan manager"?
What have I done wrong here?
Thanks for the help.
@highon2str: The problem here is that you've done this with your main account (from the error you already have), instead of creating a fresh account without messing anything in your main account.
your main account shouldn't be touched, leave it as it is.
@StarGrapper: I haven't touched my main account. I created a new account, added my CC, then made this new account a family member of my main account, then edited the payment details and changed it from an AUS address to a Turkey address.
But when logging in to Google one on my phone, using the new account, it's telling me to talk to the plan manager, which is the main account. It seems that the new account cannot buy or change any plans, since it is a part of the main account?
@highon2str: shouldn't affect at all.
something is wrong in what you said, or you misunderstood.
the secondary account shouldn't be able to change plant, all you got to do is to buy an individual plan for your secondary account, then you change share settings on both accounts.
share some screenshots (hide your email address in the photos so you are not reported and banned).
@StarGrapper: Where do I go on the Google one app (while logged in as the new account), to buy a new plan? I can't seem to find that option?
"4- open google one using your second account, and go to subscriptions, you'll find it all in AUD, do not worry."
This is the step from your instructions that I seem to be having an issue with. I can't find the subscriptions page on the app? Unless Google have somehow discovered this loophole and have disabled it :(
- Open google one app.
- on the top right hand corner, make sure that you are on your secondary account. then go back to google one app home screen.
- Then scroll all the way down to the bottom, will show you subscribe or upgrade. continue from there.
@highon2str: Also, even if your other accounts in the same family group have subscriptions, you still should be able to get a subscription or upgrade/downgrade your existing one.
lets keep this chat alive until you are subscribed.
@StarGrapper: Thanks for helping out, I appreciate it, given your profile 5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 😁
This is what I see on the secondary account google one app.
@StarGrapper: Scrolling all the way down shows this, as you can see there is no option to "subscribe or upgrade".
@highon2str: this is weird, and it says you already are subscribed on 31st of Jan, a week ago.
is this your secondary account? did you check top right corner? (says P)
@StarGrapper: Yes, "P" is my secondary account. It says 31st Jan because that's when I created it and that is the date that it became a family member of my main account. It is subscribed based on the fact that my main account is already subscribed to the 200GB plan.
@StarGrapper: Talking through this now, it is starting to make sense. It seems that I cannot use my secondary account to subscribe to a plan, while it is part of a family group which is already on an existing plan.
Do you think it would work if I removed the secondary account from the family group, then subscribed to a 2TB plan using the secondary account, then re-adding the secondary account to the family group? Would the storage be combined and shared that way?
@highon2str: that is wrong, i already had my main account subscribed and sharing, then i joined my secondary account and subscribed as well.
then try to remove storage share from your primary account, then go back to secondary account which will show that you do not have storage, try that.
@StarGrapper: Ok we have some progress! I removed sharing from the primary account. When I log back into google one with the secondary account, it now gives me the option to upgrade. However now I am having issues with this step:
5- Click on the package you want, even if it is in AUD, next (half window) which confirms payment will be in TL (NOT AUD) and will give you the numbers you mentioned in your post. just click the one you want and buy it, preferably yearly. (it will not be a case if you should add the payment to your account or whatever because your payment is already added as part of google pay from primary account if you didnt add your payment card in step 1).
After I've selected 2TB, it shows as AUD$124.99, but even after I select the next screen, in the bottom half where the half window appears, it is trying to charge me in AUD.
I've checked my secondary account on a laptop browser and when I select "payment method - edit", it is definitely showing my AUS credit card but with a Turkey address.
@highon2str: alright, so the problem is that your profile is still australia, you have to change it to turkey and DELETE australian profile.
- go to your secondary email on browser, manage account
- Payments & subscriptions
- Payment methods
- Addresses ( and change your address to Turkey, and delete your australian one). if you cant delete australian address, go to next step then return to this one.
- Settings (create new profile, and set it as Turkey, and use fake turkey address - you can find them online- and then DELETE australian profile, and keep only 1 profile which is the turkish profile).
let me know how you go.
@StarGrapper: OK! That helped somewhat, thanks again. I realised I had a Turkey address card, but my address was still set to Australia like you said. So I've changed and only have 1 legal address now, which is a Turkey address.
Went back into the google one app on my phone using this secondary account, but still shows 2TB as AUD124.99. I might have to wait a couple of hours to see if this changes? 🤔🤔
@highon2str: You should change your profile in Settings, or actually, create a new profile and delete first.
there should be no delay, instant change.
Also, make sure to check second payment window, not first.
@StarGrapper: Ah yes I see that under settings I have 2 profiles. Had to click on the sneaky down arrow to show both profiles. I then scrolled to the bottom and closed the aus account.
Back into google one, secondary account, tap on 2TB option, wait for the half window to appear and now it states "Something went wrong on our end. Please try again."🥴
@highon2str: clear cash and data of your google one app, then open it again and try again.
waiting your response
@StarGrapper: Cleared cache & data. Logged back in and the selection screen looks a bit different! But at the half window it still says something went wrong 🥲
@highon2str: That is strange, i really ran out of any ideas.
i'd suggest that you create another fresh email address with correct settings and try again. at least you know where your mistakes were.
@StarGrapper: Do you think it's because I used a made up street name for the Turkey address? Does it have to be an actual, real street name?
@highon2str: it could be, why dont you search for (Turkish fake address) on google, and it will give you full address with post code that is legit.
@StarGrapper: Used a legit Turkey address, cleared data+cache, still no go. I will delete this account and try setting up a new one again without making those mistakes. Thanks for helping this far! Fingers crossed! 🤞
@StarGrapper: Created a new gmail address and with Turkey payment method, payment profile and address. But still getting the "Something went wrong on our end. Please try again." error.
I'll leave it for a day and see if there is any difference tomorrow. Thanks for your help today!
Thank you a lot - this worked. I was using a VPN set to Turkey and when I was about to pay, I was getting this error "Your transaction can't be completed. To continue this transaction, secure your account". So i disconnected the VPN and it worked.
Glad to help. :)
Took me an hour to go through all the comments and problems. Your method is the one to follow! Successfully signed up and shared 2TB plan for the price of 100GB Aussie Plan. Thanks heaps! Willing to answer any questions for people that having trouble with the card payment and others.
Glad to help, :)
Very, very late to this awesome comment and post. I'd look into this a few weeks back, wish I'd read this comment at the time - 100% works as described. Thank you all :)
@StarGrapper, thanks for your comment above.
I already subscribed to the 2TB plan on the burner account (Turkish payment profile), now I am going to add it to the family managed by my main account (Aus payment profile).
My question is if I just add a second Aus payment profile to my burner account, before adding it to the family, do you think that would be fine and won't result in changing the payment profile of all family members to the Turkish one?
Or do you think we will still need to remove the Turkish payment profile first before adding to the family?Thank you very much for your help
in order to add a turkish payment, your account address has to be turkey, once you added the payment, then you can change default country but DO NOT CHANGE YOUR STORED PAYMENT.
Any changes to any of the accounts WILL NEVER affect other accounts. this account in turkish, the other one in indian, wont affect your main one.
Also, have you added the account to family member list before you do any of this? i doubt you'll be able to add it to family members now. because payment address is different.
in order to solve this, you might need to change your main account payment address to turky until the other account join family member list, then switch it back to AUS. (might work, might not). you missed step 1 which is the most important step in above.
i did it 2 days ago with a different app. you must be doing something wrong.
Also, i have just checked my google one account, still working perfect. another proof you doing something wrong.
@wizko: sometimes what happen is, because you still have your main account on google pay on the same phone. to sort this one out, you have to sign out from your main gmail account temporarily, sign in with your dummy account with turkish rates, buy your subscription, then return back to your original account. it is just taking your main gpay as your default.
another easier way, if you have a tablet or any old device, just use the dummy account on it and use it to subscribe. it will work.
Thanks mate, worked perfectly without messing about with VPNs etc.
@StarGrapper thanks so much for this, I will add this to my next guide, all credits to you!
Tried this method. Step 5 gives me "Something went wrong with our end. Please try again"
Also, this isn't mobile phone specific. If I want to purchase this on a laptop browser it gives me the same error.
I finally got this working.
- I deleted the original family group
- Recreated, used another account as the Main, and added everyone back in
- Followed the steps above
Hi StarGrapper. Thank you for the write up. I have a question for you.
I have existing Manager account with 100GB storage. I created a burner account, added to the family and signed up for 2TB. In my burner account, I can see total storage of 2.1TB. However, in my Manager account, I only see 100GB. Is this correct?Hi. How do this do step 6 for the secondary account? I can't seem to be able to do it
Thanks so much for this. Does it make a difference if the family has an active Google one subscription already? All I can rly do is cancel the renewal though, it will be active til January
i am confident you can control which account to share the google one subscription, so you can add this one to yours and control which one is sharing or if both are sharing at same time, so won't harm, will just increase your account capacity for a while until either one is expired.
sorry for late response.
Just wanted to say thank you for sharing.
Been on this plan for a year and it has been awesome using this without worrying about space!
From my personal experience, I would have a 2nd Gmail account to use this deal. I know the original transition can be daunting but once it is all setup, it has been very seamless and stress free :)
Hard pass. Sounds like a good way to screw up an account. Thanks anyway for all the effort OP.
That's why you use a burner account
What I did was create a new family account and only use it to manage these kinds of subscriptions. Currently, I have Youtube Premium and Google One with overseas subscriptions then invite my own account and family member's account. Works great without screwing our Australian accounts. The only disadvantage is it takes away one spot.
can anyone help me to show me how to do this project
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thank you very muchfor the life of me i cannot get this to work.. setup new email, confirmed address and vpn and linked family account but all i get is aus $ for google one even in incognito mode and then when i try to even click to purchase, it just says theres an error on there end and i cant proceed…. what am i doing wrong?
Same problem for me, I think it's when you delete your Australian payment profile it also deletes your payment method (e.g. your VISA card). After trying for a while I gave up, removed the dummy account from my family and forgot about it for an hour or so. Then I went back into the dummy account just for a look and noticed Google One had changed to TRY currency. But I'd unjoined the family group, and couldn't re-join 'coz it wasn't in the same country. So maybe it's a timing thing….but I can't change the country back to AUS to rejoin the family group 'coz you can only change country once a year. I'll start again with a new dummy account at some point.
I had your same problem. I think it may prevent you from paying because your family has members from multiple countries. The moment i left the family with the turkish burner account it changed to TRY.
I created another TRY burner but haven't left the family yet, will try again in case its a timing thing like you said
Does anyone know, if I sign up for a 100GB plan but decide to upgrade to a 2TB plan, how difficult it is? Is it a matter of just changing the plan, or do I need to cancel and start again?
Is there something like this for Microsoft 365 Family/OneDrive ?
Question for anyone who has this specific scenario:
Say I have my main account under Google one subscription on a monthly basis and I have added my burner account as a family member. If I were to purchase a yearly subscription from this approach, which plan would the main account inherit?
I also have my partner under the family group using the main account.
Are there any suggestions for such scenario?
Ok it seems like because the main account is a family manager and has a google one subscription, the burner account is unable to signup for a subscription - it says "Talk to your plan manager" - I may need to cancel my subscription on the main account, this is very complicated and unique situation.
I have the same situation but i don't think it is very uncommon. I have a main account which already had Google One. I cancelled the subscription which will expire in a couple of weeks. I then created a burner account with turkey profile and went to re-subscribe. It shows me AUD pricing and does not let me subscribe with the message " Talk to your plan manager" about subscribing.
I think this is how everyone is using it with the burner account so i don't think that part is different. Only thing i can think of is the primary account subscription still exists.
You don't necessarily have to cancel the subscription (though you should!), you just have to go to your main account and turn off 'Share Google One with family'. Even with my main account's existing subscription expiring in Feb, turning off sharing allowed me to sign up my secondary account to Google One with no dramas. Then on that account I turned on Sharing to family, and voila, my main account and other family accounts all now have access to the 2TB storage in addition to the old subscription that will disappear in Feb.
excellent idea…i followed your steps:
1) turned off the Share Google One with Family on main account
2) cancelled my monthly subscription on main account
3) setup a payment profile with TRK profile and address (there are no other profiles) on burner account
4) tried to purchase a plan but seeing AU price and when click on Get Started it throws "Something went wrong on our end. Please try again."Note: I am connected to VPN all the time and my other main account has an AU profile (I hope I don't have to delete my AU profile on main account)
@velvetForce: You can just purchase a plan in your burner account first, then delete the turkey payment profile to join your family.
@velvetForce: Delete payment profile only turn off the auto renew. So the subscription will be good for another year.
It works, also if you get AUD after doing that then I might be cause you have an AUD profile setup so just delete that in setting the payments center page.
How well does the family sharing work (for this and YouTube premium too)?
If I make a new Google account and add my main Australian Google account to the family group before doing the steps above (and steps in the YouTube post) for family account, my main will be able to access everything + retain Australian Google Play store, etc…?
Reading the instructions makes me want to throw up. I don't have time for that shit.
return your OzB badge!
keep getting the error message- that family member is from different country when getting other family member or burner account to join. i am thinking it must be related to fact already have my account (family manager) using argentina youtube premium. not sure how to get around it while adding family members. i thin i may have to cancel youtube premium for a few days and do that way.
I initially had some errors but managed to get it to work.
I created a new account -> joined as a family member to the main account (make sure to accept the invitation before proceeding) -> created a Turkish payment profile -> Connected to Turkey via VPN (Windscribe) -> sign up for a 2TB annual plan -> share Google One storage sharing.
I could then add another family member (Australian account) to the group without any issues (main account, new account, another family member's account).
If anyone gets an error, try removing the family group and start fresh.
Looks promising, my current subscription runs out in May.
What would happen to my survey credits?
If your main account with the survey credits makes the family you will be fine.
Follow the method where you add a burner account with Turkey payment method which will be paying for the sub
Bit of a pain if you have to go through all this every year? Monthly just rolls on and direct debits
Do it once -set and forget
Transferred successfully, by following the exact provided steps, and it eventually worked after deleted my existing AU profile
Thanks OP!
OK I wanted to use the same family accounts as I have the Youtube Sub on…. Using one of the sub accounts I changed to Turkey and set up billing. I get the Error message when paying "Your transaction can't be completed. To continue this transaction, secure your account. Learn more about securing accounts"
I tried this: Turn off VPN then try to pay again. If this doesn't work, delete your debit/credit card off the payment profile and redo all the steps again - when you go to pay it will ask you to enter a new card - try and use a different one and it should work.
I tried with VPN off and on, deleted the pau profile a couple of times in cognito mode and not.
removed account from family changed to turkey tried to re-add can't as it was now a different country.. Changed back to Argentine and readded to family. Changed back to Turkey and tried again and no love same issue every time……… Do I just have to setup another Google family? Was trying to avoi
If anyone has trouble with subscribing to this deal, below is steps that I followed and succeeded. No VPN is needed.
1. Create a burner account.
2. Go to Payment profile and delete Australian profile if one exists.
3. Add a payment method with country=Turkey, try different card until 1 got accepted. I got lucky with a NAB VISA card.
4. Install Google One app on your phone and login using above account.
5. Buying your desired plan from the app, price should be showed in TRY throughout the process regardless of VPN status.
6. Delete the Turkish payment profile.
7. Add an Australian payment profile.
8. Join your family.
9. Go to Google One setting and enable Goggle One sharing.
10. Profit.So what do you plan to do when the sub needs renewing?
In that case just simply leave the family and redo all the steps again (sans 1 of course).
I have test and confirm an account (even with Google One subscription) can leave and join a family many times it wishes as long as it doesn't not join another family in between.
I guess I was just trying to say that that is not necessary.
If you have the burner account join the family first and then setup the Turkish payment profile, you can then keep it as is and not have to worry about it at renewal.
@atlas: Ah I see your point now. Indeed if I can purchase the plan while in the family it would save a lot of time (remove and add payment profile). But in my specific case I was unable to purchase any plan after joining the family. "There is an error in our backend" was always show up after clicking on any plan. I suspected the cause was someone else already has an ongoing Australian subscription but it was too much a hassle to check. Hence I improvised your instructions a little bit. Hope it may help someone.
Thanks @Squirtle - followed the steps you indicated and worked perfectly.
And as @atlas, just highlighting again to make sure you have added/joined the burner account to the family first otherwise you will hit problems.
Following the instructions here: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/13246657/redir
You can set and forget. The main difference is I added my burner account to the family first, then added a payment method with Turkish address.
When using the Google One app on that account, without VPN, it showed AUD pricing, but the actual Google Pay window showed ₺289.99. I went through with it, and sure enough on my bank account I was charged the Turkish price. Google One continues to tell me I'm signed up to the AUD price, but Google Pay subscription list shows my next payment in 2024 to be ₺289.99.
The storage is now fully shared across my family group, and I'm just leaving the burner account with the Turkish payment method.
How did you do 6. I couldnt do it, it wants me to add another payment card before I can remove the Turkish payment profile.
I tried this and got an email sent to the burner asking me to verify my account by providing some form of Turkish ID
I used a 28 deg card and used a random Turkish address when filling in the payment profile.
What can I do?
I did it using this Redditors post and didn't have to use any Turkish ID at all. Might be worth another try with this method.
Do I need to wait for my current plan to expire or can I do this now?
@sammysamsam: I would guess it's better to cancel your current plan and wait for it to expire. That's what I did. How long have you got to go?
Thank you! I couldn't get it working the original way- I think because of Argentinian YouTube and an app subscription in AUD through the Family Manager account. This worked.
Ok so this worked for me BUT the annual fee hasn't been charged yet (because it forces me onto the first month free offer).
If I delete the TRY payment profile, how will that affect my subscription ie after the free month, will it charge the TRY amount on my Aus payment profile?
Please dont tell me I have to wait a month for the offer to be finished and then I can re-join the family.
This is like Konami codes for real life. Incredible.
Hey I'm keen on getting this just for storage for some online backup from my PC. Am I correct in understanding that this switches my google play store over to turkey? Does that mean I should create a separate google account for this?
Just read the first post. It has all the answers
Worked a charm. Thanks for the detailed write up & links!!!
Very well documented! Thanks OP!
is there an Argentina version of this google one cheap version similar to turkey one?
also, can I have both youtube premium and google one with turkey account?
currently have the Argentina youtube premium, unfortunately cant be added into the burner account.Thank you.
I have problem one. I have deleted all my Australian payment profiles and as soon as I login with my Gmail it triggers the au pricing. What's the best way around this?
Thanks for this! Just got it setup.
- Created family group with my main gmail account as the manager
- Invited my family and additionally a burner account
- Logged into burner account, accepted family invite
- Used Windscribe VPN to go to Turkey; added a payment method using my Wise card and a fake address using the linked generator
- Purchased Google One on my burner account (home page showed AUD but when I clicked through to 'Get Started' the popup showed pricing in TRS. Purchased, confirmed I was billed in TRS (I use USD on my wise account, came out to ~$15 USD for 2TB)
- Disconnected from Windscribe VPN; Went to Google One settings on my burner account and shared with my family
Didn't take long at all and a huge discount, thank you!
Does this also mean your main account doesn't show Turkey store and shows AU?
Also follow up did you try to subscribe to youtube premium on the burner account too and share it up to your main account the manager?
With the burner account, do you need to create that while VPN is on with Turkey Survey or can that be created without VPN?
how long did it take the new storage to share to other accounts?
I did the sign up with a burner, bought the subscription and did the sharing but my other account (member, not manager) still shows 100% used of 15GB…
Hi. On your main account, what is the total storage? For some reason, on my main account, I couldn't see the 2TB storage that my burner account just signed up to
I have a problem here: my Google One payment methods are different from what I have in my Google payment methods. I figured it out those are from my Android payment methods long long time ago, however, when I tried to manage the methods, it took me to the main Google payment methods page and those Google One or Android payment methods are not there. Anyone has experienced this?
Great write-up, and thanks for all the tips from everyone.
Here's what I had to do. as I could not get my main to show TRL, and I didn't want to risk deleting my billing profiles etc.
Thanks atlas, for suggesting using an alternative account.Used an old alt email, with no address/billing info, and set up fresh with turkey address, and changed the name to match my credit cards (for next step).
Added a Visa debit, as my Mastercard debit would not 'authorise' by my bank. (not sure if its a visa/MC issue or bank-specific)
I created the family group on my main acct, and invited my new turkey alt
It would not let me join the family group as I was in a different location. I had to add an Australian payment profile, and deleted the turkey one
Once joined the family, I just had to go into the alt, and share the storage with the family group.
Now fingers crossed, I'm getting 2TB for less than I was paying for 100GB. (have to wait till I'm billed to confirm)
When using @StarGrapper's method (without VPN), I seem to be running into an issue trying to upgrade my google one account.
In step #4 when I log in to google one with my phone using the turkey profile, it's telling me that I can't change my membership plan, that I have to "… talk to your plan manager"?
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Just a noob question, can 2 separate gmail account's storage be combined if they join the Family without having Google One subscription?
so I managed to do this
Possible Problem 2: Error message when paying "Your transaction can't be completed. To continue this transaction, secure your account. Learn more about securing accounts"
Possible Solution 2: Turn off VPN then try to pay again. If this doesn't work, delete your debit/credit card off the payment profile and redo all the steps again - when you go to pay it will ask you to enter a new card - try and use a different one and it should work.
I got charged AUD22.09 on the annual 2TB plan which is good but when I checked my account I will be billed A$124.99/year. Do I need to do anything after this so that I don't get charged? Do I need to cancel it before the next billing date?
Couldn't get it to work. I kept getting USD even when connecting via VPN to Turkey with different providers (Windscribe and NordVPN).
Thanks, op. A bit of work involved in getting it all sorted but following @atlas method worked ok.
In my haste to set this up I deleted all my Aus profiles and found out later after reading the notes of the risk , sure enough I lost all my google credit. Is there any way to get it back now?
When creating a Turkey burner gmail account its asking for a Turkish phone number to send a text message to verify your account. How do you get around this? Or do you create it without Turkey VPN on?
You can create an Australian account first with your number and then change it so that Payments Profile reflects to be Turkey.
Subscribe with VPN on, then create a new Payments Profile for Australia, and delete your Turkey profile.
Then you can be invited to the existing Family.
Windscribe didn't work for me but I used hide.me (free version) and it worked
I just want to add for future reference:
Since you are getting Google one account through Turkey, even the 2TB+ plans don't offer google's new VPN service. So don't get your hopes up lol.
Just a PSA…
So I have set up a Burner account with a Turkish payment profile. It shows Google One storage in TRY.
From reading above posts, I should:
1. Add to family using main gmail account as the family manager
2. Sign up on Google One using burner account paying in TRY
3. Turn on sharing in the burner account.
4. Now everyone in the Google family gets access to the 2TB?Since I run another Youtube family, I would prefer if no other members of the family has access to the 2TB of storage.
Is there a way to set this up?If I use the burner account as the family manager, and invite my main account into that family of 2, does that mean my main account's Google play store will get changed to a turkish one?
Thank you for everyone's help.
I tried all these steps and I noticed when I turn on the VPN, it the Google One prices are in TRY. When I attempt to buy it, it changes back to AUD. I have 5 users in my Google Family all AUS based. My payment profile is Turkey though. How can I get around this issue? Cheers.
Was getting this same issue, Turns out I had an Australian payment profile as well as an Argentine one on the account with the Turkish payment profile. I deleted those and it worked. All prices in TRY as was able to subscribe.
Please Note - there seems to be an issue with Turkey servers atm using Windscribe VPN. Server relocates to Prune (India) rather than Istanbul (Turkey), hence everyone is getting USA prices. Not sure when it will be fixed. I suggest using Hola or Urban VPN which works a charm :)
Can I use the same gmail account to get Google One storage from Turkey and Youtube premium from India?
I probably would have tried this first from what I learnt when creating a burner account and signing up. I think you can just create another Turkey payment profile on current account and from a Turkey VPN click on the link https://one.google.com/about/plans and sign up that way. Let us know if it works?
I tried OPs method a number of times, but just couldn't get it to work. I'm sure I was doing something wrong, but it was doing my head in and I quit. By chance, I saw this on Reddit, tried it and it worked first time. I still have no idea why, as both processes look similar, but as an old fart at 68 years of age, I think that's understandable.
Thanks I finally done this and followed your instructions. However I stuffed up, ended up accepting the invite first only to see I didn't get the storage. In hindsight what I should have done was go to the cog wheel and enable the storage and this probably would have worked without following 2nd half of the instructions.
Instead I ended up leaving the family group and rejoining but I was not hopeful as I saw the you can only join 1 family per 12 month warning and initially kept getting accounts need to be in the same country. I ended up deleting the Turkey payment profile on burner account like your instruction said and creating couple of other country profiles that matched (Aus and India for YouTube premium). I Also enabled storage sharing then it worked.
No 5 TB plan for annual?
Hey! I'd already signed up with the burner account as the family manager, and my main Australian account as a secondary member of the family group.
I'd like to be able to download Australian apps on my main account, is there an easy way to switch who is the main family group member?
I remember it was a bit of a mess around adding myself to the family group in the first place (I think we all had to be Australian first, then switch the main burner to Turkey after I was in the family group, but took a lot of fiddling).
I also have youtube going monthly through this burner account.
@I Smell Pennies hey mate, any ideas here for somehow promoting a third party Australian account to family manager, or easily migrating to a new family with a Turkish burner account+main Aus account? Feel like if anyone knows how to do this, it'll be you!
Been trying to figure out a way to do this without starting the whole thing from scratch (which I remember took almost a full day to work successfully, and have also prepaid for heaps of stuff on this account already)
I'm not able to download certain apps on my Aus account, and am having problems adding things like my Australian cards to tap and pay. Can't seem to think of any options other than just leave the group, give up all my purchases, and start again with a brand new Turkish burner.
Hi guys, I just couldn't get mine to work, keep getting error something wrong on our end
I used an old google email account, joined family group, deleted Oz profile, added Turkey payment profile and keep payment using 28degrees, went to google one, all plans showed up as Aud regardless i have Windscribe and Surfshark vpn on or off, cannot proceed any further as keep getting error something wrong on our end
Any ideas how to go pass this one.Have you tried the method from Reddit that I linked above?
Hi, finally got the subscription to work following the one you posted but I have to create a few accounts before getting it to work, however auto renew no longer work and if want to upgrade the plan all plan are now shown is Aud before I no longer have the Turkey profile that I used to bough the subscription. So when the subscription expired I would have to either create another subscription account then repeat again
Yes, that is correct, but I think the saving is worth the effort. If you are the only one using the storage, perhaps you could try what one of the other redditors did and that was to not set it up as a family share and leave it as a Turkey account.
So for anyone who have google account banned. Is that for all in the family or only the one who subscribe ??
So… after much trying and failing I finally installed Hola VPN, connected to a Turkey server, created a new Turkey account and subscribed for the annual 289 TRY 2TB plan. Don't want to have to manually redo/risk the process annually so I will just use this account as a standalone cloud storage facility.
So, thanks for instruction.
The burner account needs to be created using VPN (turkey servers) or can that be created without VPN (i.e. using Australian internet)I'm about to use my 100GB, and looking at using this method to get the 2TB but I'm also hella scared about google deactivating or banning my account using this method how irrational of a fear is this? Is it really likely to occur at all? Have important photos and videos I don't really want to put into a hard drive or ssd I may forget or lose
Thanks
It's a non-zero percentage risk, and Google has demonstrated a history of disabling people's Google accounts (unrelated to this offer, but on other issues) preventing them from email access etc. I would say if you're very risk averse, maybe don't.
Having said that, my Google account is also very very important and I could not risk losing it. However, after many months of deliberating on this, I pulled the trigger - but in the safest way possible that a lot here are doing.
Create a burner Google account, that creates a Google Family. With the burner account as the Family Manager, invite your real Google account as a family member, do the process described in the post/comments, and then share your Google One storage as the family manager to all family members. This is a little bit safer because now if something was to happen to the burner account due to circumventing Google's regional pricing, your main Google account should have a better chance of surviving anything. I don't imagine Google would burn all Family Members accounts if there are dodgy Family Managers. There are lots of people around the internet that share Google One Family accounts (as with Spotify Family accounts, Nintendo Switch Family accounts etc.) so I doubt they would.
Thanks so much for this idea that seems like a fantastic alternative, I agree in thinking that Google would deactivate the burner as opposed to any other "family" members that's perfect thanks for your help Smokey
Your method is a little different to what the others posted. You are using your burner account (with Turkish payment profile) as the family manager whilst others are using their main account (with Australian payment profile) as the family manager.
I was wondering when your main account joined the family group created by the burner account, did it force your payment profile to change to turkish as well?
Or did you have to change your burner account to an Australian payment profile before inviting the main account to the family group?Just curious can your main account be the manager of another family, and be part of the family managed by the burner account at the same time?
Hmm, it's an interesting behaviour. I can confirm the following:
- On my main account, I have a Turkey Payment Profile (But I am unsure if this was created as part of the family group, or from other previous deals/attempts)
- If I go to check out Google One pricing on https://one.google.com/about/plans from my main account, I still do see pricing in Turkish currency.
- My main account also has 200GB via a grandfathered Australian purchase, so I have in total 2.2TB on my main account.
As for whether or not my main account by a manage of another family, I can confirm that you cannot create another family if you are already in a family managed by someone else as it does not give me an option to create a new family under my main account.
@SmokeyTheCorgi: I already subscribed to the 2TB plan on the burner account (Turkish payment profile), now I am going to add it to the family managed by my main account (Aus payment profile).
My question is if I just add a second Aus payment profile to my burner account, before adding it to the family, do you think that would be fine and won't result in changing the payment profile of all family members to the Turkish one?
Or do you think we will still need to remove the Turkish payment profile first before adding to the family?Thank you very much for your help
@concento: I see what you're asking. I can't confirm one way or another, so you'll just have to try.
My total guess is it should be okay. Add the AU payment profile, switch the main payment profile in the burner account to AU, and try adding the burner account to the AU family managed by your main account.
Good luck.
@SmokeyTheCorgi: Thanks I thought the same but in the payment profile setting it doesn't seem to let you pick which one is the "primary" payment profile. It only lets you add or delete a payment profile. Am I missing something?
@concento: In the payment profile settings, if you have multiple payment profiles, there should be a drop down arrow that you can press that will list all the payment profiles with a radio button next to them. If you click on the radio button, that selected payment profile will be the default profile for Google transactions.
If you don't see the drop down because you only have 1 profile, go the Settings in the Google Payment, scroll down to the country/region and click the Pen Icon to select a new country. That will create a new payment profile, where you can select Australia and fill out the necessary info. Be sure to confirm after creating the profile that it is the default one.
But again, I can't confirm if this will or won't change your payment profile on the other family member.
Can someone confirm if I sign up for the 2Tb say today, can I get 10% back on pixel bought through the play store or do I need to wait 30 days, please?
I nearly used this hack to sign up for the annual 100GB plan at ~$4.50 but thought it's not worth the risk of getting my account deleted/banned by Google so I'm now doing it legit and paying $24.99 per year. So the saving is only about $20 per year for the 100GB annual plan which isn't worth the risk of getting all my data deleted
Exactly, the risk is not worth the (small) reward in my opinion. Moreover, what happens when you can't renew using the same hack and then you are no longer able to use the smaller plans? Might even be a ploy by Google themselves to sell the larger plans and then patch the deal after a year.
Tried using another burnt account within the family group. When subscribing, it says contact family plan manager. So can't move ahead with this scenario…
after one year, will it renew at the SAME price?
got the renewal for 2 TB (signed up in July last year) - same price TRY 289.99 for the upcoming year
I've tried this multiple times with two different VPNs located in turkey. The most I can get it to change is into russian RUB even when IP address says im located in Turkey.
Even when continuing through to the price, it still shows in AUD. Tried the burner account, removing AUD payments and entering in turkey details. Has anyone managed to get this to work?
Awesome deal.
I've got Google Home set up at my place with a doorbell, lights etc.
My mates also have their own Google Home setup at their place with the same thing.If I invite my mates to the 'family' and do this deal, will they lose access to their Google Home or will they just be able to have multiple 'google homes'.
Follow up question to that - if they can have multiple homes (which I assume they will be able to) can they be removed or can they elect to leave the home without leaving the 'family'?
I managed to do this with a brand new account. But it signed up to a trial for the storage at ₺14. I had to remove the payment methods to be able to add to my family, which I did. Now i want to add the payment profile back, but it wont let me verify the card. Anyone else have this issue? I was using a wise card. If I use an australian card, does it charge the full amount or will it charge the ₺289.99 annual amount?
Note: If you plan on sharing your Google One subscription with any family members (or others), you must add your Australian family members / accounts into a Google family group before signing up to Turkey Google One subscription, otherwise you will get the following error: "Looks like you're in a different country from the family manager".
Is this barrier something that can be navigated? I want to start the Google One family sub now but one of the accounts cannot move into this family until June 2023.
This is incredibly well documented. I followed this when it was published and finally had my annual Google One expire. All activated on the 200gb Family plan for $8.80aud. Thank you OP! Amazing!
Thanks y'all - I had a few goes and it took a while to sort out, but the below steps worked for me!
in TL:DR fashion:
- Existing AU Family Manager Account -> with an Active Sub :-(. Proceeded to "cancel" sub.
- Invited new burner account which had a Turkey Payment Profile (this account was created whilst connected to Turkey VPN)
- Stopped Sharing Storage on AU Family Manager Account (if you don't do this, Burner account will see "refer to Manager") - this step performed on iOS app (Google One), no VPN.
- Signed up on Burner Account for $124 - but no, it changes to Lira on next screen! 14.99 Lira for 1 month and 12 months for 289.99 Lira. Yay! - this step performed on iOS app (Google One), no VPN.
- Got Burner Account to Share Storage - this step performed on iOS app (Google One), no VPN.
Everyone gets access to 2TB!
Hi. For some reason, in my main account, I cannot see the 2TB that my burner account just signed up for. Is there anything else that I need to do?
Can no longer see 100gb plan, lowest is 200 for 115.99/year
Edit: Also lost access to Google VPN
After the case where Google cancelled a persons account because their doctor requested photos of their child's groin area for diagnosis and the photo synced to Google Photos, I'll never willingly sync my data to the cloud.
Imagine losing your email account with no recourse - financial issues, password resets, everything tied to it.
Better to have a locally hosted cloud.
Is the Google Store 10% credit working immediately upon subscription? It's neither visible on check out or in the Google One "Benefits" tab right after subscribing
This worked for me today using this method
- Bring up an incognito browser
- Make a new random Google account with Turkey VPN after selecting a plan here - choose Aussie number when it asks in signup
- Go to your normal browser and invite the new acc to your family with your normal account - turn off VPN when accepting or it will error saying you are in a different country
- Go to Google One site, with VPN on - Turkey pricing should be there on the new account
- Subscribe to Google One, will apply to the family you are in but you MUST be in it first. It was about $22/year for 2TB storage.
- Then share your Google storage here
- Enjoy.
Hey does this work if you cancelled your existing subscription. I followed the steps but i can't share it from the burner account to my main account.]
EDIT: got it working by switching a toggle in the settings.
So, my burner account shares the Google One membership - this wouldn't affect any of my data in my main account right?
Yep wouldn't affect anything in the main account
Yep, I will just let the existing subscription on my main account expire then.
Is there a way around "You can only switch to a different family group once every 12 months"?
I had the family group working properly for YouTube premium with the burner account as the manager. Because of this, my main account couldn't install Australian apps (I know a way around this was having a seperate Australian account).
So I thought of creating a new family group from my main account after leaving the family group but it didnt let me due to the 12 month penalty.Hey after signing up, can i delete my turkey payment profile?
you can but it won’t renew next year
Thanks for the reply mate. This trick saved me some money.
But now all my play is Turkey Based. I created a AU payment profile (2 profiles, AU & Turkey) and selected the AU profile as my default profile but my Play Store is still Turkey based. any solution for this?
Thanks for the write up!
Once this is set up and all, would I still get 10% back on Google Store purchases? Couldn't really work out an answer from the comments
probably not, this is Turkey
Haiyaaaa
Got the renewal for 2 TB (signed up in July last year) - same price TRY 289.99 for the upcoming year
Can I pay with play store credit
Thanks OP, took some time to get it all set up but got it working in the end.
Hello, it keep showing pounds for me, using pure VPN.
Hi, check VPN again
remove old unnecessary payment profile (if any from India) you signed up earlier
I followed this guide back in November and didnt read or see the instruction regarding android and play store issues. Now my playstore on my phone is stuck on turkey and I cant download apps I need. I believe I can change back after 1 year i.e. November 23. I have tried signing in with a separate Australia based google account but playstore was still in Turkey. Is there anything I can do or simply wait for the year to be up?
Creating a second Google account based in Aus, and switching to that in the Play Store worked for me.
Once the year was up I resubscribed to Google One via my Turkey Payment Profile, then deleted the profile and everything reverted back to Australian - subs, purchases and reward credit all stayed with the account.
They removed the updated instructions and referred this as a duplicate… So misses the MasterCard virtual instructions
I am finding the private internet access VPN is crappy to use for turkey. Too hard to get a working IP that is recognised properly and not known by Google.
You have to delete your Australian payment profile if you have an existing account. They know you are using a VPN they make Android OS and have total knowledge of your location.
If I delete my Australia payment profile will I lose access to existing apps or subscriptions, I am subcribed to this google one and a youtube deal via turkish vpn.
Follow these instructions confirmed worked for me.
Thanks I followed those instructions exactly. My new burner account is in the family and has a subscription to google one.
Now do I need to delete both my Australian and turkish payment profiles from my main google account to get the AUS play store back on my phone?
check google credit TRY15 free on monthly tiral plan
Can we pay with Google opinion rewards dollars??
I already pay for YouTube Premium through Turkey but have Google One through AU. I've just cancelled it and will wait until the end of October for the sub to end before trying this out.
Thanks OP, I've already used your other deal posts for Crunchyroll & YT Premium. Next up, Neflix and this 😄Does anyone know if there are similar workarounds for Google Nest Aware at all?
Interested in this too.
i bought the 2tb version not thinking how much space i had. it was only 17 bucks and thought why not. So far ive only used 20gb LOL. overkill
So, my burner account shares the Google One membership - this wouldn't affect any of my data in my main account right?
So im trying to use this method but Argentina (have already done it for youtube premium).
All account details and payment method is set to argentina.When i go to purchase, its showing in $$, even when i click all the way through to the very last window..
When i log in to another account i manage (turkey based), its set to turkish prices even without a vpn.
Anyone have any ideas what could be happening to the argentina account only showing $$?
I have tried multiple broswers, computers and android phones…all the same :(
Thanks OP, followed the instructions had some issues earlier but after removing the Australian payment profile, it showed the Turkey figures. Subscribed for 2TB annual plan👌😊
Can anyone link me to the post about Google bans mentioned? I couldn't find it going through the linked posts (new OzBargainer here haha)
If you're afraid of bans just use a throwaway
anyone might have a renewal write up?
i signed up last year…due to renew in aug. dont want to get caught…
Tried signing up for the annual 100GB plan using the instructions above - getting the error message "Your transaction can't be completed. Please visit the Help Centre for more information". Have tried multiple cards, including my Westpac debit card, Revolut virtual card, and Wise virtual card. Have tried using the method on my phone browser. Even tried after turning off the VPN, as suggested above - no luck. Does anyone have any suggestions?
I finally got Google One to show me in TL. Here's what i have done:
a) set up a new google account, authenticated via Au phone number though
b) New payment profilewith Australian ING debit card with Turkish address
c) Use Tor browser in incognito mode to get to Google One page. Initially the page showed AUD prices, clicking on 100Gb option and prices changed to TL. smooth sign up after that.so no VPN?
VPN Windsccribe to Turkey (Istanbul only, not the other 2)
oo thanks.
When I tried turkey the other day via windscribe, i was getting British Pounds on google one prices.
Maybe was a temporary issue, ill try again in afew days. thanks for the info!
@amityaaron: i had encountered that with Chrome in incognito mode.
disconnect / reconnect + using Brave with TOR incognito mode.
Tor gave me the page in Turkish Liras on my first attempt.
set up a new google account? like actual new??
i setup a brand new one to avoid making too many amendments on my existing account.
This is what i did:
a) VPN to turkey (Istanbul) first, setup a new google account + Turkish address + Turkish payment profile with AU debit card
b) disconnect so that i can join my family group
c) reconnect VPN to Istanbul
d) Google One sign up without encountering AUD prices.nice, but i just learnt that my old google acc is already part of family. Darn, your trick works.
UPDATE: According to atlas:
To avoid all your devices changing to the Turkish play store, all you need to do is:Make sure the family manager is an Australian account
Use a different account (ie. Burner account) to join the family and setup Turkish payment profile
Setup Google One, share, and away you go.
Result: Main account gets shared storage and keeps Australian profile.Not sure if anyone been in a similar predicament as I am. So my main google account is already in an existing family group, which is also the one I need for the extra storage (due to drive + gmail). This google account is also on an Android with an Australian payment profile. I am not too concerned about any google credit as i dont have much anyway, but my main concern are the google play data. I saw that i can always re-create an Australian payment profile after, but will I be able to "import" back the deleted Australian payment profile?
Is there another workaround for someone in a scenario that my main google account is in? TIA
Is the family full? If not, create a new account to join the family.
That's a good point - meaning to create a new turkish google a/c and sign up for the plan, and then get this a/c invited into the existing google family and share the subscription's allowances to the existing family?
Follow the steps in the exact order - join the family first
So what are the exact steps? I signed up for this google one via a turkish vpn and now my play store on my phone is in turkey and its a real issue for me. It is my main google account and has an australian payment profile. What do I need to do exactly to fix this?
I just renewed my subscription. My family is full so I couldn't use a burner account.
I had to wait till the subscription expired, otherwise I can't re-buy the same plan. To do it the way I did (which is pretty much the same as the first time):- VPN to Turkey; I used NordVPN
- Login to Google (I used Chrome in Incognito), go to Account Settings, add a Payment Profile for Turkey. To add a Payment Profile, click on the pen icon next to Country/Region. I reused the original Turkish address I used last year.
- Close your Australian payments profile by selecting it at the top and clicking Close at the bottom.
- Buy Google One again.
- Don't forget to go back to Google One settings, Manage family settings, and re-enable the share option.
- Create an Australian payment profile then delete the Turkish profile. If you use a burner account that isn't the family manager you should be able to just leave the Turkish profile there and it should auto-renew next year; if it's the family account then every family member's Play Store will be Turkish and some AU-specific apps (e.g. the ANZ app) will not be downloadable.
- Deleting the Turkish profile will not delete the subscription.
Got apple id turkey, gone to google one app and try to upgrade from there, pops out ₺139.99 100gb annual instead of 57.99.
Still better than AUD, just a little annoyed not 57.99.
That’s so weird. I just upgraded yesterday for 57.99 TL
Yes so weird! Sigh
I've been trying to follow the stesp (android device) for the post by Atlas, but the secondary accound does not show option to upgrade or change plans. It says "talk to plan manager". The main account (manager) is Au based and still seeing Au pricng :(
Does your main account have Google One already?
Yes it does. but it expires in a couple of days.
The real bargain for Google Drive was unlimited storage for about A$10 per month. It lasted a few years, but eventually they wanted real money. I think I had 25TB on the drive at one time.
Why not use o365 subscription and get 6x1TB for RRP of $139 AUD (or cheaper)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-AU/microsoft-365/buy/compare-al…Because the point here is to use Google products, Google photos, Gmail. etc.
let say i pay for 2TB storage and uploaded 2 TB of stuff then stopped paying. what would happend to the stuff I uploaded? deleted or unable to access until I pay for 2TB again?
I tested this scenario. I was on 200GB plan. Stopped paying since Feb 2023. Data continued on the cloud storage until I removed in early June. Though there were 2 issues.
a) I couldn't upload any new data.
b) constant nagging notification on phone about data exceeding free quota and I need to pay for data blah! blah!! blah!!I finally set up a NAS and moved all my data from cloud. Happy days! No more google peeking my data.
cheers mate
Seeing as this deal is currently on the home page, I have to say I'm not a fan of this new re-posting feature which has been hinted at, and it's confusing - "REPOST" doesn't show on the app, and I thought I was on the long-running page for a second. It's just a way to see even less of what I want to see (ie. only popular new deals on the home page), and now we require yet another option to hide clutter. The home page should be for new deals, and if I want to find deals for specific products I'll search for it.
Agree
They would be reposted as a "new" deal anyway
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What is the use case of a Google one account? Do people just use it for storage? What happened to ssd or hhd these days?
What is the use case of a Google one account? Do people just use it for storage?
Lots of people use their phone as their only camera nowadays. Having a lot of Google One storage means all your photos are automatically backed up. It also makes searching through your photos much easier as you can describe what you're looking for. You'll also be able to display your photos on devices like Nest Home Hubs and Chromecasts.
You can also store all your documents on Google Drive and access them wherever you are. If your hard disk at home crashes, or gets ransomwared, or gets damaged in a power surge, or your laptop gets stolen, or the house catches fire, no worries as you have a copy in the cloud.
It's always a good idea to at least have a copy of everything both on your hard disk as well as a remote location (e.g. Google's cloud). It's better to use an actual backup service like Crashplan or Backblaze, but this is the next best thing that's easier to use which makes it more attractive to more people.
I am having a dilemma Google One VS iCloud turkey. As I am an apple user but I know phones we can also sync with Google as a backup for photos etc. I am finding the cost for GBs Google One more pricer.
I am finding the cost for GBs Google One more pricer.
Hmm, how so? This deal is $1.62/month for 2TB (or $16.20 for a year). iCloud is $7.25/month for 2TB, or $87/year.
For clarity @atlas
"To avoid all your devices changing to the Turkish play store, all you need to do is:"
- Should the burner account buy Google One before or after joining 'the family'? (Or does it not matter as long as they hit share once in the family?)It's been a while since I set mine up, but I'm fairly certain you need to join the family first before setting up the Turkish payment profile and Google One. Otherwise you might encounter errors joining the family.
Probably too late not but yeah the account must be apart of the family prior to purchasing
Sweet my account stopped working for some reason time to do it again
Hello,
How to get on this when I have already got Google One?Let it end, then come back to this deal.
Can anyone help with my situation.
- I have existing Google Family account with 1 free slot.
- I created burner account and set up Turkish Payment Profile / subscribed for 1 year of 200GB/m
- Tried to join family but couldnt as i'm in differant Country. ( My fault for not reading instructions properly, If i cancel payment profile and switch to Australia will i lose my 155 Lira?
- Is there anything I can do appart from Switching from Turkey >> Aus, join Family >>> to Turkey and resubscribe?
I'd probably ditch the account and start again
You can bypass it by joining with VPN on, if that doesn't work then join with VPN off. Muck around with it. Because I had the same error initially when creating my first ever guide and I managed to bypass it by mucking around and trying.
@I Smell Pennies the hero we need but not the one we deserve (i saltue you)
Thank you for your support mate :) @Trying2SaveABuck
I dont know what the issue. I created a burner account joined the family. Vpn in Turkey went to google one shows Aud. However if left the family it shows lira. Is there some issues with the family set up? Did this couple of times.
@I Smell Pennies
Thanks again for this.
More coffees coming up later in the week.
Created new account and used Oldubil. Gonna use it for plex storage. Didn’t see option more then 2tb. Just did a month to start with.Also new updated payments from Revolut worked. Transferred using the updated option instead of akti…
When trying the YouTube (wanting to change to family plan as individual, cancelled plan but don’t see options until October when runs out to enable family I guess. (I am already using Turkish YouTube)
Ahh. After initial 2tb, option there to upgrade to more.
Yeah the option only comes up after you sub to 2TB for some reason. Thanks for your comment and support
Quick tip I just spent 30 minutes figuring out.
If you have set up a burner account and joined a family group that already has an account that has is sharing a premium subscription, there will be no toggle for "Share Google One with your family" in the Google One settings of the burner account.
I found the answer on reddit, essentially the "Share Google One with your family" toggle will not show if you have another premium Google One account in the family with that setting on. You have to turn off the "Share Google One with your family" slider on one account for it to show on the other. It seems like Google is not allowing more than one family member with premium Google One plan to share their storage at a time.
Once you toggle it off on the existing account, the toggle will appear on the burner and happy days :)
Much appriciate the details penny!
Do you know how to change my payment detail for Google drive from Australia profile to my Turkey one?
I have 2 payment profile, one from Turkey for youtube Red and that works perfectly fine.
The payment profile for Google drive is charging me AUD.
I assume that I would have to delete my Australia payment profile for google drive first right?
Please help me on that thank you
So I have YouTube Turkiye family plan (I'm manager), with both Australian and Turkish payment profiles. Signing up to G1 as is didn't work as I kept seeing AUD prices. Will deleting the Australian payment profile cause any problems (apart from losing GP credits or purchased apps which I don't have) for my family members apart from their Google Play store changing to Turkiye as well? If I then delete the Turkish profile, won't that disable YT Turkiye? And if I add the Australian profile back will their Google Play change back to Australian too?
I removed the Aussie payment profile and signing up to G1 Turkiye worked. Re-creating the Aussie profile didn't restore the play store, so looks like I need to remove the Turkish profile. In doing so, what will happen to my Turkish YT?
edit: found answer: When you close this profile, the service(s) below will be cancelled: YouTube, Google One
so just means re subbing to YT Turkiye then I guess.
Does it matter which credit card you use? I see mention of ING Everyday but no other reference to special cards/banks
I just used my Coles Mastercard.
I use Commbank, Suncorp they all work
Hi guys, I started using my Google account I used to sign up for this for Google (Opinions) Rewards. And it asks me to set up payment profile in order for me to claim rewards. What's dos and don'ts here? Should I avoid using this account for Google Rewards at all? If I proceed with setting up profile, the default country chosen is Australia.
Please advise. Thank you.
I cannot seem to have the currency change from USD with the correct payment profile as Turkey and the Australian one deleted when I use Urban VPN. Anyone found a solution yet?
I'm stuck dear OZB Community.
I have 6 slots, all full.
1 iOS, 5 Android in the family. I am on Android and am the family manager.Followed the steps on OP:
Step 1: Skipped, as I already have it set up
Step 2: Activated VPN for Istanbul Turkey, (either Nord or HMA, verified via whatismyip)
Step 3: iOS user had nothing set up, so successfully added a Google payment profile for Turkey using a fake address. There is only one single profile and that's Turkey.
Step 4: Go to https://one.google.com/about/plans and it shows currency in AUD & I can't get it to change.When I click on the blue button, 'Get Offer', I get the message:
Error
Something went wrong on our end. Please try again.I have:
Tried different VPNS
Incognito in Chrome
Deleted and re-added the card from under payment methods.
Verified that the Payments Profile has the Country set to Turkey.Any ideas, please?
TIA@atlas &
@I Smell Pennies@lordra will help you soon, sorry I have a huge backlog
No worries, will wait, thanks mate.
Don't suppose anyone else has Google One? Or any other family sharing turned on?
Nope, I'm the only one with Google one.
Yes, as the family manager, I have YouTube Premium from India turned on.
Following as I'm in a similar boat. Family manager has YT premium from India which is shared. Trying to sub to Google One with a family member that just has one Turkey payment profile gives me the "Something went wrong on our end. Please try again." error.
Suspect the YT premium India that could be the cause?
@NitroJolt: Welcome aboard, hope we can get off this ship quickly. Did you have an existing Google One sub? I did and cancelled it. It has now expired. The Indian payment system isn't on my profile, it's on someone else's, so mine is clean.
@lordra: @lordra Nobody in the family has a current G One sub.
The family manager has the YT premium sub and hence the Indian payment profile.
The account I'm trying sub to the Turkey Google One is brand new and just a member. It has no other payment profile besides Turkey.
I might have not read the guide properly or interpreted wrong, but now looking for a solution. I created my side account but made it the family manager. Added all the aus family main accounts, then went in to purchase Google one and I got an error that wasn't one of the two in the guide (I can't remember the error but it was something about Google Play store not being supported in this country).
If anything, the error I encountered will be closest to the 2nd one but I removed the payment method and added a new one with a different card, but I still received the same error.
Without deleting the family group and trying to keep all the members in the group, is there a way still to save this or I've screwed it up and I need to remove a member to make a new side account as a member? (note I've already used up the switch a family within 12 months period on my main account and the family has android devices)
Thanks in advance
I am getting the same message "Google Play purchases are not supported in your country. Unfortunately you will not be able to complete purchases.
The signing up account only has Turkey payment profile (after deleting other profiles).
Yep that's the exact same error message I am getting.
I also have no other payment profiles except for the Turkey profile
I eventually followed instructions from "StarGrapper" in page 3 then it worked!
Update on my issue… It seemed like the problem fixed itself when I used a different VPN provider. I successfully purchased using the Turkey profile and my side account being the account manager.
As mentioned in the post, all member play store payment options are showing TRY currency. So I will do the workaround to fix it.
Thanks for the input!
if you wouldnt mind sharing, which VPN provider is that where / when you were successful with this?
@reivaxX: odd - i am also using NordVPN and had incognito switched on - somehow always detects and reverts my pricing to AUDs. I must be doing something wrong
Following the new instructions I mentioned above, we don't have to use any VPN.
The failure I had earlier was using Windscribe extension to connect Istanbul proxy.
Yep that would work in other instances. But the problem I had was I accidentally made the side account the family manager and in the instructions from StarGrapper, it specifically says to make sure the side account is the family member.
It shows USD in for my account. Already added TR payment profile.
Just signed up today to 200 GB. Good now until May 2025. Thanks very much.
I did it with my Indian account no problem. Added a burner account, set up turkey profile and purchased there. It showed INR prices before but when wnet to next page, it showed TL prices. However I am trying to do this for a friend from Peru most probably, Did all the same steps, in burner account, only TR profile is there. But it still shows PEN prices. And when tried to click next, it shows error: "Google Play purchases are not supported in your country. Unfortunately you will not be able to complete purchases"
So maybe, this won't work where Google Play purchases are not supported?
im getting the following error:
Couldn't complete your purchase. Check that you have the correct country selected in your Play account. Learn more
i put in a Turkish address with my normal bank card…. is that incorrect ?
HI guys, when I make a burner account thats been added to the family gorup, I deleted the australian profile and kept the turkey one. But when I go to sign up its in AUD and says talk to your plan manager?
That means you're trying to access the plan pages from an account that isn't the current holder of Google One but is a part of the family share
Ah I see, I managed to pass that but its still in AUD and showing that 'something went wrong on our end' Still gonna take some time to crack this one looks like
anyone managed to renew? mine is due in a few days. my turkey account is showing talk to your manager…what do i do?create another new account?
Do we have a few days after plan expired to renew or i should really try to do it before it is due?
Thanks, works a treat with a burner account. Just have to flick the switch in your settings to make sure it's shares to the family.
Once you sign up to Google One via Turkey, every Google account in the family will relocate to Turkey, even if the other accounts don’t have a Turkey payment profile. The only fix that I have seen right now is to delete the Turkey payment profile on the account that was used to sign up to Google One - that will revert all accounts to the Australian Play Store.
Hi all. So I made my burner account the family manager. All the family users are showing turkey play store at the moment. I deleted the turkey payment profile and was forced to create a new Australian payment profile to "transfer" the Google one subscription. It's been 2-3 days already but the main accounts are still showing turkey play store. What else do I need to do to revert the accounts back to Australian play store?
Hi, so, a couple questions:
If I just make a Turkish account, will all potential risk to my normal Google account be avoided?
Can you use the 10% cashback bonus on the Turkish account in the Google Store? Or will it try to shop through Turkey?
Can anyone connect to Turkey using Windscribe? Everytime it just connects to Iran or Nigeria
There was a windscrobe pro deal
I can see the order coming through with TRY but when I press subscribe button in android device, its saying "Something went wrong. Couldn't complete your purchase. Check that you have the correct country selected in your Play account". But my google play was logged onto an account with turkey payment profile(and country, but using latitude mastercard). Anyone encountered this before?
@I Smell Pennies, I don't have a current Google One subscription yet, but my main Google account is currently part of someone else's Google Family (due to sharing Youtube Premium).
Is it possible to sign up to the Google One in TRY without leaving that other family group? I'm halfway through paying my annual subscription and didnt want to waste it if possible.Wouldn't work with my account so had to create a new Gmail specially for it whilst in Turkey to get it working
Can any one help please ?
i am getting an error:
2 TB (Google One)
Couldn't complete your purchase. Check that you have the correct country selected in your Play account. Learn morei used the VPM ( located in Turkey ), payment address in google profile is a turkish address but using the CBA debit card.
Just a guess, but i'd say it will be CBA blocking the transaction from going through. I had success using my Turkish prepaid Mastercard via OlduBil. Best of luck!
Thanks for the update, what is the process to get the Oldubil ?
ok i downloaded OLDubill but now trying to put money on it but not working FML lol any help anyone on the process
Oldubil no longer accepts transfers from international banks.
I had luck topping up my card using Binance P2P trading. Refer to my comment in the Spotify Premium comments for details
yupe tried with revolut, citibank and hsbc and all failed.
Thanks @I Smell Pennies for the writeup and @atlas for the Google family account advice! I've upgraded my account successfully using my OlduBil turkish mastercard. Worked perfectly. Cheers!
+1 mate, thank you for all your hard work!
I have spent HOURS trying to figure this out - the blocker is not having a Turkish virtual card to pay with. Oldubil no longer lets you transfer funds from debit/credit cards any more.
Is anyone able to recommend another way?Looks like the solution does not work anymore. Google is blocking payment using australian bank credit card - tried HSBC, Citibank, Revolut for google one plan.
I can see Turkish lira for the plan but couldn't complete the transaction, payment kept getting denied.
looks like the case.
I also tried NAB, ING both credit and debit card plus google play giftcard in AUD and TRY nothing worked. Can't load money to Oldubil so not sure if that'll work.
They've blocked everything!
I've just switched to 100gb paying in AUD :(
Not getting this deal to work anymore, weird cos Spotify is still taking money from my OlduBil account. Has Google patched this now?
Question: Did anyone try paying via Turkish Gift card ?
Doesn't work sadly:
https://i.imgur.com/zdPW1jf.png
Tried for science to buy the smallers Google Play Turkey region code and redeem when trying to purchase the 2TB yearly. Sends me the above error. Google really has closed all the loopholes.
Guess we need to wait to find the next cheapest country.
After spending hours trying to get this to work, I finally got everything working. Unfortunately, by the next day, the account was suspended. While there is every chance I made a mistake, I do not recommend you chance it on an account you intend to use as a main account. It appears Google has very much discovered this and clamped down.
Ouch. Did they give a reason for the suspension?
Potentially breaking ToS, basically. Suspicious activity, I believe was the term. I was smart enough to use a burner account, so I'm totally fine, but yeah. Frustrating that this no longer works. How dare Google make money!
That sucks mate. What payment method did you end up using?
Just my Mastercard. Through Up. A lot of people were having issues but with Up at least it went through fine. Didn't last, unfortunately!
Thanks for sharing this mate. I'm up for renewal on my Turkish family member account and am not able to change plans with my Revolut card. In the process of getting a FUPS card and then will use that to reload Oludubil card and hopefully that will work. How did you get everything working?
When I took an old burner gmail and tried to change payment country with Revolut to Turkey, I was told that Google demanded govt ID and when I refused to comply it made it so my gmail is out of space despite using 0gb out of 15gb storage. Clamped down indeed!Also, I made a reddit thread quoting you to inform people about this new development. Seems like everything was working as of 25 Aug but stopped working on 26 Aug onwards.
Interesting, very strange that they demanded government ID. They asked no such thing of me! Everything worked smoothly, I got my main account as the family manager and invited the turkey account and a few others. Then the Turkey account gave everybody else in the family the Google One benefits (you do not have to be the family manager to do so, it turns out). Next day, it was just gone. Not exactly sure I did anything special, maybe some (profanity) with the VPN let me do it at all. If you do get caught when the family's in there, don't worry, only the turkey account should be in trouble. I didn't bother appealing, I highly doubt I would have gotten away with lying there. Hope this helped! I've also notified the OP of this.
Supposedly a different (still very cheap) country DOES work, according to a poster further down, but I'm afraid to risk doing this again, so I think I'll just ride out the basically free (like $9 total) 3 month trial they're doing atm and see if anything further develops by then.
Yeah and they restricted the account until such ID was provided, even if I tried to change the locaiton away from Turkey. I did the same last year, main account was the family manager and the Turkey account was just a member but passed on the storage to everybody else. Thanks for your help! Did you pay with a FUPS or Oldubil? I'm hoping if I add an Oldubil card to my Turkey account then the renewal should hopefully go ahead (currently have a revolut on it) but not sure.
@OzzyManReviews: I paid with a regular bank card (Up Mastercard)! Never heard of FUPS and never used Oldubil. From what I've heard the latter is no longer viable as they stop you from doing transferring across countries (I believe?) Maybe just using a bank card was what screwed me over, but it seemed to work fine for others. It's a mixed bag, I think, but I think everyone can see now that this is patched. This method, at least.
@dongltron: Thanks for your help mate! Just coming here a couple weeks later to update you. I was up for renewal and was stressing that it wouldn't go thhrough and I wouldn't be able to receive emails etc etc. Well when the day came I noticed a charge on my card that didnt go through but a few hours later another charge that went through and I was able to successfully renew at the TRY price but I couldn't change the plan at all. Only continue on the same plan as before. I would still stay it is patched though. It will renew on old accounts but on new accounts they now ask for Turkish IDs which is what I experienced with another burner account.
Sorry to hear mate. What happens when the account is suspended, are you given a chance to download/move anything off? What happens to the Gmail access on the account as well?
Nah, it's okay, it was a burner account. No harm done to my main account, even though it was family linked to the burner. There was nothing on the account, but as far as I could tell all Google services were locked behind the deactivation message. Only option was to appeal. I didn't bother.
i don't think this works anymore… Google have made it that only local credit/debit card can subscribe to it it seems, and now that Oldubil can't be topped via CC/debit or transfers, seems like we're shit out of luck :(
Did your Oldubil work for Google One purchaes in the past few days?
Ah I haven't needed to try that because I already prepaid for a whole year's subscription
My oldubil worked for a recent YouTube Premium subscription (and my local aus card declined)
i think google's clamping down specifically on Turkey, i just tried with another more expensive region, same process as per OP and it worked (PHP)!
which region?
i am guessing they meant Philippines?
Yep Philippines, it's more expensive than turkey but cheaper than Australia 😅
Im paying 30c a month for an account since this post, and dont use it. But ill keep it running for now.
Its good for buying cheap games, appsHi..followed the steps. On payment screen I'm getting
Your transaction can't be completed. Please visit the Help Centre for more informationI've deleted all profiles I had with just Turkey one remaining.
Had to add payment details again and it did deduct a small sum for check.
Tried paying with and without vpnAny suggestions please?
I think you gotta try another region, had the same issue then tried Philippines and it worked with AU credit card
But do note, it's more expensive than Turkey.
I think google clamped down specifically on Turkey, possibly because it was ozbargained
thanks..which plan do you go for and how much in AUD did you have to pay?
This is happening to me too! Any suggestions will be appreciated!
this method has now been patched - only works if you had already set your country as turkey before they patched it!
So does this mean this deal is no longer obtainable unless we have Turkey set as the country?
Also, are you really THE Ozzy Man?
Definitely NOT a matter of minutes as indicated in the post.
I have a Bulgarian Netflix and Russian antivirus licenses and going for the cheapest (Turkey) is likely to get flagged, in fact I wasn't able to go ahead… so I'll take my chances with another country, thank you for the comprehensive post thought…Update, still didn't work with other country like Russia.
There are just so many reasons it wouldn't work…Google knows where you are, if you happen to have Android devices (Mobile or TV), if you use Youtube of Google Home, or if you have an existing Google account, then it is easy for them to know where you've been located for most of the time, hence it'll prompt you to pay in A$ regardless of your address and payment profile.
I think the best way for this to work would be:
1- Get a VPN on StackSocial (They have cheap lifetime VPN services)
2- Connect to Russia
3- Open an Incognito/Private Window on Brave/Chrome/Edge/Firefox (etc…) so there is no sessions cookies prior to starting the process
4- Create a "new" google account, don't use the existing one!
5- Subscribe to Google One
6- Forget about your original Google account and all linked services/devicesOutcome: that's way too cumbersome and not worth the hassle IMHO.
Obviously you wouldn't have this issue with other companies but Google truly is in every young household already…Also burner account doesn't work from Russia it appears:
<< 2 TB (Google One) // Google Play purchases are not supported in your country. Unfortunately you will not be able to complete purchases >>The steps you've outlined is essentially what the original post is, minus the Turkey bit. You can definitely make Google think you're elsewhere, just as easily as any other service. I have multiple Google-connected devices in my home, no problem with the VPN. This method has just been patched by Google, as far as I can tell. I'm sure something else will come around. I've heard people having luck with other countries, some people it isn't working at all.
Hi, if anyone has other countries work for them please let me know :) it would be much appreciated, my turkey one has expired and Im struggling to find other storage options.
Thanks!Following…
Since no methods or Australian cards work, should mark deal expired?
Have you tried using your Oldubil card to make payment. I have just recently tested for a YouTube premium subscription and noted that my Australian card declined, but my Oldubil card was successful
Continue to use India Youtube famil deal from previous deal and had my Australian Google One expired this month, I am unable to upgrade my One with TRY account even though I have the required Turkish Payment Profile and a couple of good VPNs to connect to - keep getting price in AUD.
Not in a position to delete my AU Payment profile as I have a ton on items on Google Play eventhough I am on iOS. And I definately need a Google One to share with family since I have YouTube family in that order.It seems the party is over. I have googled and a lot of people reporting this is no longer working
https://www.reddit.com/r/googleplay/comments/161wp0y/gp_turk…Don't think this is obtainable anymore… I had previously bought an annual Google One sub using a Play Voucher (used credit card points to buy the voucher so was "free")… In the last year I've subscribed to YouTube Premium using a Turkey Payment Profile (monthly sub, that is working fine)… But I can't subscribe to Google one, tried different VPN's and even without a VPN, it shows the TRY currency, but won't let me pay, says that I must check my country in the Play Store settings.
Only have a Turkey profile, but the credit card on file for YouTube is an Aussie card. Tried a different card, same error…
Since I don't wanna lose YouTube premium, I'll have to create a separate google account and use that for the storage - I'm only using the storage for Google One for my NAS and photo backups - so don't actually need it on my main account - just annoying that I have to pay full price
it still works, i did this to a friend of mine a few weeks ago and went ahead like a charm.
go back to my comment with my method and it will save you alot of time.
and by the way, no VPN needed with mine.
Hi @StarGrapper
I have tried all the methods mentioned in the post by you and others, used old and new accounts, and tried multiple CC and Google gift card- was not accepted when tried to redeem.
Please advise if you are able to help.
google gift cards are most likely restricted to a specific country of purchase, so cannot do it anywhere, use your bank card instead.
i am happy to help you, let me know and i'll guide you through it step by step.
Tried to subscribe but keep giving purchase error. Tried Urban and Windscibe VPN
I currently have this set up with a turkish profile, australian credit card.
Once my subscription expires, will it auto renew or will it fail and i have to pay full price? :(
I went through the steps and setup a FUPS account and an Oldubil account to see if it would work with a local Turkish card.
Have the Payments Profile set as Turkey, see the TRY prices - but once I press subscribe it gives me the Purchased failed error.
Tried with and without the VPN on.Hope this saves someone in the future from trying this process - happy to be corrected if it is possible and I am missing a step.
Hey can anyone advise if this method using Turkey VPN is still working?
No more working. Thanks
Will deleting existing payment profile impact my YouTube service subscripted via Turkey VPN?
I want to know the same thing.
is it working? or any alternative
Can anyone check if the price is the same with what i get
Google one annual 2tb plan on ipad is TL 649.99/yr
On android is TL 499.99/yr
Massive increase from TL 289.99 /yr few months ago! And why the difference in price between android and ios?
The extra 150TRY/yr when purchasing it on iPad is because Apple takes a 30% cut of in-app purchases.
Google also takes a 30% cut of in-app purchases, but I guess they waive that on their own apps.
You're better off making the purchase from a desktop browser, since that'll be the cheapest (same as Android).Thank you!
That make sense.
My turkish google account can’t make purchase anymore due to oldubil crackdown.
But i still have balance on my apple turkey account. That’s why i purchase it on ipad.By desktop browser i guess that means paying with turkish cc only?
i can't get my turkey google playstore to work anymore, are you still able to ?
No, but my itunes turkey still works
I'm on an existing 100GB Google One Turkey plan. Trying to upgrade to a 200GB but getting a:
Your transaction can't be completed. Please visit the Help Centre for more information
error
So I guess the party's over for "existing" users trying to upgrade too?
What do u need 200gb storage for?
I have just been attempting to re-subscribe without luck, after reading the recent comments I now understand why! Real shame there isn't a website listing different international prices, I have blindly tried a few other countries, but nothing comes close to Turkey pricing.
Based on ur tries, which country is the cheapest after turkiye?
My plan expired today and I got email saying plan has been cancelled, with no further explanation.
Payment profile on the burner account does not seem to be there anymore.
I am scared now my Youtube premium will also be affected since its using the same burner account.. will renew mid Nov..
From what I've read, YT Premium and Google One are charged a different way. My YT Family is still going strong but I can't get the Google One storage to renew no matter what I do.
Basically only two options at the moment for me - move to another country (like Pakistan or Philippines) and pass the cost on to my Family or live without Google One. The latter is such a pain because I thought Id use it to back up all of my photos from the past 10 years
Damn, was waiting for my Google One to expire to try this out - but looks like it's not working anymore?
If anyone finds any way (even if it's not as cheap as Turkey), I'm all ears!
Plus for the write-up.