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Nope. The cost of the hardware is always necessarily still passed on to the customer before they even pay for the subscription to "unlock" it. It's double dippi
by sublinear 4y ago
Nope. The cost of the hardware is always necessarily still passed on to the customer before they even pay for the subscription to "unlock" it. It's double dipping.
It makes no sense to gamble that upsells will be successful in exchange for a more competitive price. There's guaranteed loss with that idea.
The components pre-installed must cost something and it's not possible for the manufacturer to get that money back unless they both installed inferior junk nobody wants and then baked it into the price.
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- bryanlarsen 4y ago> The cost of the hardware is always necessarily still passed on to the customer before they even pay for the subscription to "unlock" it. That's not true. Razors are the canonical example of a product sold below cost, there are many others. > The components pre-installed must cost something They must cost something, but there's also a significant cost to creating multiple SKU's, and that cost is likely more than the cost of the heated seats.
- sokoloff 4y agoOn my Jeep Grand Cherokee, without checking I wagered the wiring harness would be the same across the models without heated seats (mine) and with (the junkyard leather seat package I bought). I was surprised to learn I was wrong.
- sublinear 4y ago> That's not true. Razors are the canonical example of a product sold below cost, there are many others. Trivially wrong. Heated seats are not required for a vehicle to function.