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> $6.67/user/month billed annually or $8 billed monthly I like this project. But please stop putting dumb shit like this on the pricing page. There is no suc
by cxr 2y ago
> $6.67/user/month billed annually or $8 billed monthly
I like this project. But please stop putting dumb shit like this on the pricing page. There is no such thing.
The options are $80 a year, or $8 a month. That's it.
Although "$X per month, billed annually" has become a popular and socially acceptable way to be deceptive, it's still deceptive. There are few better ways I can think of to signal that you'd happily lie about a bunch of other stuff if it meant making slightly more money for yourself and you could continue to get by in polite society (limiting yourself to the same deceits that everyone else is engaging in).
- canjobear 2y agoWhat is deceptive here? This seems like a reasonable way to present the information.
- 2Gkashmiri 2y ago> $6.67/user/month billed annually or $8 billed monthly it doesnt say you have to prepay $80/year. why say "/month billed annually"? what benefit does that give?
- _flux 2y agoIt gives you the benefit of seeing the price difference in the long run more easily. Maybe providing also year-long pricing examples of both would be even more helpful.
- cxr 2y agoGrocery stores figured this out years ago. It's by giving that secondary number a subordinate position on the price tag. Not by redesigning the price tag to list the actual options in a misleading way (and then making the customer do even more arithmetic—not less—in order to answer the question, "How much is this going to cost me TODAY?") No one who is doing the "$X per month, billed annually" is doing it because they're trying to make it easiest for the customer. They're doing it because lower numbers on the price tag makes for more sales.
- ildon 2y agoActually, I prefer this rather than "x monthly, n yearly". Having the two values in the same scale helps to compare the difference.
- stavros 2y agoI made a service (https://imgz.org https://imgz.org) and showed the pricing as "$5/year". I got SO MANY complaints that "$5/month is outrageous" that you better believe I changed the price display to "$1/month (billed yearly)".
- cxr 2y agoI remember this story and chuckled the first time I heard it. But if you were comfortable charging $5 per year, what's wrong with $1 per month (billed monthly)?
- stavros 2y agoI'll pay 40% of that in credit card fees, rather than 3% of that.
- cxr 2y agoHuh? $12 × 0.60 = $7.20 $ 5 × 0.97 = $4.85
- stavros 2y agoStripe charges 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction. 30¢ every dollar is a lot.
- cxr 2y ago... Huh? $7.20 > $4.85
- stavros 2y agoYou can't assume that someone who paid $5 for a year will keep their subscription for 12 months when there's a way to cancel after a month, and there are overheads that 60c for a month wouldn't meet. My price would also more than double for my customers while I received just a bit more, with Stripe getting the rest, and I also just don't want to give Stripe that big a cut.