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You’re free to cancel, and I’m sure customer service would give you the refund on the extra cost for the first month. I’ve noticed this in restaurants too, the
by _3u10 3y ago
You’re free to cancel, and I’m sure customer service would give you the refund on the extra cost for the first month.
I’ve noticed this in restaurants too, they just change the price like a normal business in an inflationary environment.
I bet you get raises too, or ask for them and move on if you don’t get them.
- VS1999 3y agoI have no idea how that relates to what I wrote. Edit: Actually I see now, you're replying to where I said they bought services and raised prices without the customer consent. If we're using a restaurant comparison, it'd be like your local burger shop raising prices because your meal comes bundled with discounted carwashes. Consumers generally don't want bundles, they want to buy the thing they're interested in.
- lotsofpulp 3y ago> Consumers generally don't want bundles, they want to buy the thing they're interested in. They have been able to buy the individual song for $1 to $2 for a long time.
- VS1999 3y agoI mean bundling unrelated services. A subscription to just access all the music is pretty useful if you want to listen to music, but then they decide it should also be attached to a subscription of cloud gaming, shopping, podcasts, it becomes anti-consumer. Eventually you won't be able to just subscribe to the thing you want, but you'll also have to rent the kitchen sink.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoThose seem to be arbitrary lines to draw. What if someone only wants to stream heavy metal, rap, classical, electronic, English, Spanish, Hindi, 1950s to 1980s, etc. Building podcasts or audiobooks or even other services is just a business decision. It’s like cable/satellite TV used to be. The market will figure out where to settle.
- drstewart 3y agoThank you. I don't understand why Spotify licenses all this rock and rap music when I'm only interested in pop music. So ridiculous. Why can't they just exclude all the stuff I don't care about?
- croon 3y agoI assume you're sarcastic, but Spotify is spending hundreds of millions on Rogan alone (and many other podcasts on top of that), and I have yet to listen to a single podcast on Spotify. They're making you pay for branching out to other content than music. If I want podcasts I go to my podcast app(s).
- _3u10 3y agoMost restaurants also do this, ever ordered a combo? Ever gotten a car wash from a gas pump? If you don’t like it there’s plenty of restaurants that don’t do combos. And plenty of gas stations that don’t have car washing.