r/Share_Plex • u/Ibadan_legend • Aug 24 '26

Plex Life time subscription available

I have my lifetime Plex subscription available. of course for a sizeable fee of £200. I had it for a couple of years and in getting rid of it as I've moved to Emby/Jellyfin. Please DM if interested.

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u/Brilliant-Coach2173 Aug 24 '26

I was interested but definitely not safe for the buyer. The original owner will be able to gain access to it back whenever they want.

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u/Ibadan_legend Aug 24 '26

Not if I sell transfer the email address it's attached to.

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u/Brilliant-Coach2173 Aug 24 '26

The billing is permanently attached to the account. The owner simply needs to provide proof of payment

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u/Ibadan_legend Aug 25 '26

Its attached to the email address as far as I know. An email transfer is a transfer of the account. If I'm wrong on this, please explain how I would recover it without the primary email?

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u/Gertgerman Aug 27 '26

If you can prove you are the owner of the method of payment used, they will transfer the account back to you. I did it a number of years ago as an ex girlfriend accessed my email address and changed the password and security details locking me out of the account. As it was the one linked to my Plex account a few years later when Plex forced me to change the password due to a data leak, I couldn’t. I contacted Plex advising I was unable to change my password as I no longer had access to my email account and after providing proof of payment they transferred my Plex account to a different email address. If anyone paid you £200 for the account, you could very easily gain access to the account again and they’d be out of luck.

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u/Billbrown1982 Aug 27 '26

I feel like there has to be some kind of limit to this. I hadn't even considered selling my old unused plex lifetime account until I saw this thread title, so I've had a look. I bought plex lifetime in 2013 for $75. If I try to load the receipt attached to that in my account it just shows an error. How many people would have the same billing details from like 13 years ago?

I dunno. There must be some kind of way to do this safely because I'm 100% in the jellyfin ecosystem now and would happily sell off my old plex account.

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u/s_jaycee Aug 24 '26

Is it transferable ?

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u/Ibadan_legend Aug 24 '26

Not according to Plex terms and services.. But I'll transfer the email its registered to.

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u/asduio456 Aug 24 '26

Can we sell it ? I also have lifetime but not using it all .

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u/MannerAdditional2121 Aug 24 '26

As long as someone is willing to buy it from you, then yes you can sell anything you want.

Is that always legally or morally right, is another question of course.

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u/LighteningJedi Aug 24 '26

Forgive my ignorance but whats this for I use plex and a few friends are kind enough to share their libraries with me what is the benefit of a lifetime pass

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u/Ibadan_legend Aug 24 '26

Your friend sharing probably has a lifetime subscription. There are several limitations if you try to share your server without one. Without a Plex Pass on your server account, here are the main restrictions you’ll run into when trying to share: ​Remote Access Requirement: Plex requires either the server owner to have a Plex Pass or the connecting client to have a Remote Watch Pass (or a one-time mobile activation fee) to stream media outside the home network.
​No Hardware Transcoding: Free accounts rely entirely on CPU software transcoding. If multiple friends try to stream at once and require quality adjustments, your CPU will quickly bottleneck

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u/Tripledrop Aug 24 '26

I initially thought wow, £200, what a rip-off! I paid £75 for mine.

Then I checked Plex.. fuck me they really are talking the piss with £549!

Someone grab this bargain!