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.

  • deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I did the same with my little computer support business. Doubled prices and kept the solid customers.

    Who may now seek cheaper alternatives.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      And they are free to do so! Why do I want small-time, bitchy customers who won’t, or can’t, pay? Let someone else coming up in the world take them on. I did my time, they can do theirs.

      Pick one:

      • A restaurant that charges $10 per burger, at a cost of $3 per burger.

      • A restaurant that charges $5 per burger, at a cost of $3 per burger.

      Capitalism is common sense!

      CAVEAT: When decoupled from a sense of the greater good. Which is sometimes called morality.

      • No_@lemm.ee
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        9 months ago

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

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          9 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.