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>As lousy as this is, the consumer experience is dramatically improved. Is that worth paying $43 extra per year on a HEY subscription?
by Hamuko 6y ago
>As lousy as this is, the consumer experience is dramatically improved.
Is that worth paying $43 extra per year on a HEY subscription?
- breakfastduck 6y agoNot to me, but that's my choice to make. I just won't use it.
- Hamuko 6y agoUnfortunately Apple's intention is that you would not hear about an alternative way to pay for the subscription and that the alternative way is cheaper.
- Spivak 6y agoI mean if you partnered with Target to sell your shampoo I think they would be rightfully pissed if the bottles you sent them to put down said something like "Buy it on our website instead for 30% cheaper!"
- Hamuko 6y agoI imagine that if a consumer sees a product at Target, they have an idea that the product might be cheaper somewhere else. However, do consumers have an idea that if they seen an in-app purchase that the exact same thing might actually be on sale somewhere else and that it has a different price? If the app says that "One year HEY subscription" is $142 and the app is from HEY itself, what reason is there to believe that it's not just the plain old price of HEY?
- jfim 6y agoHarry's razors are sold at Target, and they do a subscription service for razor blades.
- screwycaboose 6y agoProbably could be a lot less than $43/mo if Basecamp didn't feel the need to spend 7 figures on a domain. They're not filling some massive need; it's yet another email service. If they can't justify it at $142 a year how do they justify it at $99 a year? You reap what you sow.