How bout it? Huge savings for a lifetime sponsorship of chess.com.

I guess nobody is interested.

Say like $599.00

It used to be that diamond was life-time Platinum, but Chess.com can't afford it now at that price. Life-time diamond membership should sale for several thousand dollars.

Not a bad idea -- some simply calculation like the average term of a user, then make them pay roughly that for a lifetime membership figuring either way you're getting at least par for the course.

I dunno how businesses figure prices like this, it's probably something a little more involved.  I like the idea though.

 Brilliant!!!!!! I'm sure everybody is going to be fighting to be first in line to pay SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS for a life time membership. LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

we used to offer this. if you want to do it, let me know :)

I'm basing my price estimate over this:

Lifetime from the time most can pay for it is about 70 years at most. 70 x $95.88=$6711.60 for lifetime. Given that Chess.com gives discounts for longer periods I would say $5000 is a reasonable price.

But more important is that longer subscriptions than 1 year are needed-chessgames.com gives out 2- and 3- year subscriptions.

 Nobody is going to pay 5,000 for a life time membership. Nobody is going to be on this site for fifty years.

Does it let me take back moves at any point in the game?

Another reason why Chess.com doesn't sell these.

(@Beester:Please take that down!)

Depends on the size of it. Interesting possible business. Tell erik about it.

If you use the game type "takeback".

 No club or organanization bases their cost of a life time membership on what the next 50 years of an annual membership would cost. The next FEW years yes, but NEVER anywhere near fifty.

My alumni association has the following pricing:

1 year $64

5 year $274  (like 1 year free)

lifetime $950 (seniors $475 -- wonder why )  Lifetime =4*5 = 20 yr

But that's an alumni association, which is pretty much a known entity. Nobody can realistically predict what chess.com (or competing sites) will be like in 10 years, except they will probably be different from now.  I think this option would have limited appeal.

Just seems like a nice way to generate some income for the holiday season...Say limit it to like 200 slots, and make it some requirement that you have to have been a member for at least a year already.

Then make it a good price

200 x 595 is 119,000

Seems worth it for the bandwidth usage of those people.

And it would be like a Jeweled Crown Icon to the distinguished few..something special for supporting Chess.com

What price would you pay today for *any* asset ? The trite (but correct) answer is the present value of the expected future benefits. If you offer me $100 in a year's time, today it is worth $100 / 1 + r (where r is the interest rate at which I can borrow for 1 year). For annuities and similar lifetime commitments it's a bit more complicated. To determine what it's worth to you, you would have to decide the maximum of how many years you and chess.com are going to live, what the likely cost of diamond membership would be each year and discount with an appropriate yield curve. If Erik offers you lifetime membership for less than that number it is, in theory, a good deal.

Bear in mind that if Erik discovers that becoming a monster truck driver or entertaining wealthy west coast widows is more lucrative than dealing with us jackasses, the time to live part may be shorter than you think ...

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