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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Waldemar_Firehammer@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Disney is raking its customers over the coals with a 75% price hike for their annual subscription (originally $80.) People wonder why piracy is on the rise.Multiple commenters are saying I'm off base about the 75% price increase. My payment less than a year ago was $79.99. Here's the proof.

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[-] ModsAreCopsACAB@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago

Anyone who calls any customer "bitchy" for not staying after raising prices deserves to jump off a cliff.

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If he meant exactly what you said, I agree. But, there is an alternate interpretation of what the guy was saying:

You tend to get different kinds of customers with different price ranges. The ones who can afford to spend money generally don't give a crap about what you're billing them for, and they just want the work done properly.

The ones who aim to get a "good deal" tend to be less hands-off and more critical about the work done/supplies used and billed for. Frugal customers take extra time and sanity to field questions/suggestions, and sometimes, it's just not worth dealing with.

If raising his fee filters out the latter category, it's hard to blame him. I wouldn't want to deal with penny-pinchers either, and simply being more expensive than the competition is an effective deterrent.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

^ This is exactly what I meant.

[-] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space -2 points 8 months ago

Frugal customers take extra time and sanity to field questions/suggestions, and sometimes, it’s just not worth dealing with.

And if this is a problem for you, maybe you don't deserve to be in business.

[-] T1000@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

All businesses have cheap customers that you bend over backwards for but they still leave a bad review. Those types hurt businesses and force strategies to not have cheap customers.

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago

Or raise prices and don't deal with them. Guy didn't say he was hurting from raising prices. Man some of you guys seem to think everything should be free, wonder if you practice what you preach and work for free.

[-] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 2 points 8 months ago

a raise in price should correspond to an increase in value being provided

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