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Please explain how $80/year is insane?
by davedx 4y ago
Please explain how $80/year is insane?
- CaptainZapp 4y agoLeaving aside the price of the watch I can get a dive computer for 200$ +. That's for me to own never having to pay a subscription fee.
- ethbr0 4y agoApparently a decent starter dive computer runs $300-400. $400 = $80 * 5 And with the dedicated option you have a purpose built device and something you can resell.
- CaptainZapp 4y agoDepending on what you're looking for you can get a perfectly suitable dive computer for 200$. If you need an example: Look at the Cressi Goa. But there are other examples in this price range.
- mcphage 4y agoWhy would you pay for a subscription in months you're not going diving? You don't need to sign up for the yearly subscription if you only do it a few times a year. Just pay for those days or months.
- LtWorf 4y agoYou need to factor in the time it takes to unsubscribe and re-subscribe.
- Karunamon 4y agoMinutes or less on Apple since they give you a dashboard with all your subscriptions and canceling or restarting is extremely simple
- ethbr0 4y agoIf Apple's value proposition is 'Just manually unsubscribe + resubscribe' then they have a problem.
- Karunamon 4y agoIn a conversation based in good faith and not tired nitpicking most people would understand that it being simple to cancel a subscription when you're not using some thing and then easy to restart when you want to use it again would be a positive…
- LtWorf 4y agoNot so simple… if you forgot to do it at home you certainly can't do it on a dive, given that those often happen from boats, far from cell signal.
- moistly 4y agoYah, and if you forgot your pressure regulator, you’re right f*d as well, qu’elle surprise. You present a fatuous argument.
- LtWorf 4y agoBut you can put the regulator in the bag and keep it there for free. You need to do the subscription just before or you end up paying more. It's a thing that has to be done last minute… so it's way easier that it gets forgotten.
- Karunamon 4y agoI don't know about you but checking apps that are a requirement for travel/important events is something I already do. If I am traveling somewhere for a convention you better believe I made sure that my airline's app, hotel's app, whatever ticketing app the event organizer is using were all updated, logged in to, and tested before leaving the house. Any 1 of these having problems could be anywhere from annoying to catastrophic. Why take the chance?
- matthewmacleod 4y agoYes, I’m sure there’s a massive resale market for five year old used dive computers.
- bombcar 4y agoThat’s about the rent/buy ratio for anything - it usually costs about X days of rental of electronics to buy it outright, where X is between 10 and 40 or so.