Re:What I learned unsubscribing from 22 newspapers
by gnicholas on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @10:59AM
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How long do these prices last? Seems like the super-high price would reduce their top of funnel, since people like me (who end up on the site infrequently) would never consider it at the listed price.
Re:What I learned unsubscribing from 22 newspapers
by dualityoftapirs on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @11:30AM
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Usually if you somehow end up in this kind of sales funnel, you get offered a ridiculously cheap first year subscription. Say $20 for first year, but then it's $12 a month after that. You call to cancel, and they'll keep dropping the price until it's back to that $2 or $3 a month.
It's a stepped thing.. you start at $30/month. Try to cancel and they offer you $20/month. Say you still want to cancel and they go through a series of discounts till it's < $5/month, maybe as low as $1/month.
When I went through this before online cancellation the process was so gross every new offer made me more determined to cancel even though the better offers were cheap enough to want to keep it. The whole process made me feel like I'd been ripped off.
Not really the same as Radiohead offering to let you name your price from the beginning.