Apropos the recent thread on 1Password’s price hike I am sort of curious about the evolution of what seems to be an odd business model.
WAPO increased it’s subscription by 60%
Every one or two years most of the streaming services increase their rates by about 20% or something (not scientifically verified, btw) And not with much improvement of content, or functionality of their websites
But here’s another thing: most notably with Washington Post: these services are not that shy about rationalizing these rate increases on the notion that their sales revenues are shrinking and they just would like to put the onus of their flagging profits onto their loyal customer… just seems pretty weird to me.
Like all sunscription services, when my WAPO subscription is about to expire, I call them up and say I would like to cancel. This ALWAYS results in an offer at least as good as what I had before the “increase”. They know that many folks won’t bother to cancel or ask and they will make money that way.
Of course, the recent gutting of the WAPO staff by Bezos et al is another reason to stop reading it.
Probably shouldn’t use the bandwidth here for this question …but
I notice you cannot email Paramount…. you know the service that just got bought by billionaires backed by trillionaires … few days later comes the price hike. And the only salient feedback would be to cancel the service … theire customer support basically shies away from non-technical questions leading basically to the option to Cancel for anything other than pure tech details
Do these service do a kickback response like news outlets usually do … like offering a new special rate to Not Cancel … I sort of doubt it
Every time I’ve attempted to cancel the Wall Street Journal online, I’m offered a discount instead. So, at least some subscription services do so online.