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Alternative headline: People who actively use their subscriptions are being subsided buy those who don't. If you use the gym a lot be grateful people are paying
by bruceb 3y ago
Alternative headline: People who actively use their subscriptions are being subsided buy those who don't. If you use the gym a lot be grateful people are paying that don't. If they did, the gym would have no room.
While bits based subs are not quite the same, still holds that if people who don't need that sub any more cancelled then others would probably pay more.
- daxfohl 3y agoIDK if that holds. If pricing is such that people would probably pay more, then the business will raise the price. The fact that they're getting free money from zombie subscriptions doesn't really change things. Though perhaps you could say businesses then actively reduce pricing to keep things just under the zombie radar, but that's even more effed up: it means the pricing strategy is such that zombie accounts are actually the business's goal, not just a side effect.
- bonton89 3y agoI think it does. The amount of effort people will put in and outrage that will ensue is going to scale up with the price of the service. So there is probably a careful identified max here. But they also use the "only $2 for the first 6 months" thing to get you hooked first and then wait for you to become complacent and forget about it.