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Thats why I always create a calendar event and make it remind me so I will know to cancel (or not). Few days ago I saw that one gas station offers 10€ monthly

by jve 3y ago

Thats why I always create a calendar event and make it remind me so I will know to cancel (or not). Few days ago I saw that one gas station offers 10€ monthly subscription for a daily coffee. Brilliant I thought: Cheap. However not every day a person gonna take the coffee. And you ensure the person will for sure fuel up right at your gas station and maybe buy some snacks.

MrFoof 3y ago
What’s funny about those kind of deals is if people actually maximize the benefit, those deals get adjusted way upward, or eliminated entirely. 4-5 years ago, Smashburger did their first, “Smash Pass.” Daily (excluding national holidays) free entree burger — via a daily one-day-only expiring coupon - with no additional purchase required, for 100 out of 102 calendar days, for $100 including sales tax. So the theoretical benefit was $800ish worth of food for $100, plus not paying sales/service taxes. Best part of a 90% discount depending on where you lived. I couldn’t make a comparable burger on my own for anywhere near that price. I lived right near a Smashburger at the time, and it was literally on my walk back from a subway station I would exit on my commute back home. I got 100 of the 100 burgers. Only twice did I ever order something with it, because I was only a 7-minute walk from home and could have something else or a drink at home for much less. Next year? 30 one-day-only-expiring-coupon burgers for $50. I was apparently far from the only person willing to structure part of their day around a free burger. I guess some of their stores were eaten alive by the promotion.
tzs 3y ago
> Thats why I always create a calendar event and make it remind me so I will know to cancel (or not) I'm glad to see I'm not the only one here who uses a calendar. I wish that was a joke, but the number of posts and comments I've seen from people who forgot to cancel at the end of a free trial, or had a site stop working because they forgot to renew a certificate, or forget to renew a domain, and many other things I'm forgetting is way higher than I would have expected.

by jve 3y ago

MrFoof 3y ago

What’s funny about those kind of deals is if people actually maximize the benefit, those deals get adjusted way upward, or eliminated entirely. 4-5 years ago, Smashburger did their first, “Smash Pass.” Daily (excluding national holidays) free entree burger — via a daily one-day-only expiring coupon - with no additional purchase required, for 100 out of 102 calendar days, for $100 including sales tax. So the theoretical benefit was $800ish worth of food for $100, plus not paying sales/service taxes. Best part of a 90% discount depending on where you lived. I couldn’t make a comparable burger on my own for anywhere near that price. I lived right near a Smashburger at the time, and it was literally on my walk back from a subway station I would exit on my commute back home. I got 100 of the 100 burgers. Only twice did I ever order something with it, because I was only a 7-minute walk from home and could have something else or a drink at home for much less. Next year? 30 one-day-only-expiring-coupon burgers for $50. I was apparently far from the only person willing to structure part of their day around a free burger. I guess some of their stores were eaten alive by the promotion.

tzs 3y ago

> Thats why I always create a calendar event and make it remind me so I will know to cancel (or not) I'm glad to see I'm not the only one here who uses a calendar. I wish that was a joke, but the number of posts and comments I've seen from people who forgot to cancel at the end of a free trial, or had a site stop working because they forgot to renew a certificate, or forget to renew a domain, and many other things I'm forgetting is way higher than I would have expected.