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The globe defaults to everyone gets a really high price, then if you try to cancel they immediately start offering you better deals until you agree to not cance
by ben7799 3y ago
The globe defaults to everyone gets a really high price, then if you try to cancel they immediately start offering you better deals until you agree to not cancel.
It's a stepped thing.. you start at $30/month. Try to cancel and they offer you $20/month. Say you still want to cancel and they go through a series of discounts till it's < $5/month, maybe as low as $1/month.
When I went through this before online cancellation the process was so gross every new offer made me more determined to cancel even though the better offers were cheap enough to want to keep it. The whole process made me feel like I'd been ripped off.
Not really the same as Radiohead offering to let you name your price from the beginning.
- gnicholas 3y agoHow long do these prices last? Seems like the super-high price would reduce their top of funnel, since people like me (who end up on the site infrequently) would never consider it at the listed price.
- dualityoftapirs 3y agoUsually if you somehow end up in this kind of sales funnel, you get offered a ridiculously cheap first year subscription. Say $20 for first year, but then it's $12 a month after that. You call to cancel, and they'll keep dropping the price until it's back to that $2 or $3 a month.
- gnicholas 3y agoYou're right — they also have low-price options at the beginning. I just tried loading an article and, what do you know, I was "selected" to be able to subscribe for just 99¢!