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Things aren't priced based on what they cost to make, they're priced based on what people will pay. To me it feels like being nickel & dimed and honestly I'm s

Things aren't priced based on what they cost to make, they're priced based on what people will pay. To me it feels like being nickel & dimed and honestly I'm sick of everything being a subscription (I've written on this elsewhere). At least with Spotify I still own my computer and headphones if I decide to cancel -- Drop/Nestcams are essentially $200 bricks if the internet goes down or you decide not to pay. My Nest thermostat still works without an internet connection. Cell phones are a good example, you can either pay $0 up front and a larger subscription fee in a contract, or buy the phone up front and pay a smaller, no-contract subscription. Dropcams are the worst of both worlds. (side note: I saw no mention of subscriptions on any of Nestcam's top level pages on their site.) Obviously plenty of others think it's a fine deal, so I'm just the dissenting minority opinion :)

dguaraglia 11y ago
Exactly! You are the unhappy minority, and as much as I feel your pain, you are irrelevant business wise (sorry!) I know that I'm personally very irrational when deciding prices: I find paying for HBO Now ($15 a month) an outrage, but will go and spend $20 on a cinema ticket without batting an eyelid. Heck, an Uber ride from the cinema because I'm too lazy is ~$10. Throw in a soda, and every trip to the cinema is about $40. I'm getting around 10 to 15 hours of entertainment out of the HBO subscription, which at ~$1 an hour is a much better deal than going to the movies, but no amount of rationalizing it will make it feel good. There's clearly enough people that consider the $10 a month price "good enough" to be comfortable with it.