11-26-2022 10:47 AM
https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001685450-Gifting-a-Subscription states:
"For the time being, we have removed the option to gift a subscription to an athlete. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience."
This seems to be a really bad idea. I was just looking up how to give a gift subscription. If it isn't possible, I'll be spending my Christmas gift money elsewhere.
Strava should consider enabling gift subscriptions again and stop throwing income away.
06-14-2023 01:09 AM
Looks like Strava want to lose some paid users or want to force people to self-renewing subscriptions model... Well... I can live without this gift. Friend will not make me this gift in this year and probably never again because gifts will not back. Your lose.
09-28-2023 01:28 PM
Today I lost Strava features... They gave me 3 free months, well... Thanks I had fun with Strava and probably this is the end of this adventure. I'm against subscriptions and gifts was a good way to have this features or good way to give them to someone. I had many situations where automatic flag of activities doesn't work and I made some work for Strava for free in many cases. Probably I'll miss route creator but we have alternatives. It's kind of strange but probably will be not so bad. Anyway I don't care about places outside the top ten 😅
06-06-2023 05:55 AM
Thanks for the update and transparency. I wanted to share that I found this thread while trying to gift subscription upgrades to 2 people I ride with. I guess they will stay on the free tier.
02-22-2023 02:52 PM
@Soren Any news related to this subject?
01-21-2023 03:01 PM
This is really weird, has anyone heard from Strava why they would do this?
10-05-2023 01:57 PM
I imagine they're blocked by Google and Apple from doing so, but they can't tell us that. I've seen other apps that don't accept gifts too, instead encouraging gifts through the app stores.
12-10-2022 03:50 PM
It’s weird that this isn’t an option. Why would they remove it? It’s literally free money for them for almost no effort on their part except some sort of gift card redeeming service (which used to exist). I have wanted to gift two people Strava at this point.
12-15-2022 03:10 AM
I agree, @SSynan . This was a perfect gift to several of my cycling friends who would not normally pay for a subscription. Strava had a marketing-free method to generate revenue and subscribers. As @ron_anejo said, I will be spending my Christmas money elsewhere.
09-03-2023 10:21 AM
I did NOT renew my own subscription over this. This issue, plus the rate increase that Strava recently made has turned me off of them. Garmin Connect and Ride with GPS offers similar features for much less.
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