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Re:Renting Horsepower by phantom784 on Thursday May 04, 2023 @04:01PM (#35821281)
Even worse - if you pay for the subscription and then later sell the car, you don't get anything back and the next owner doesn't get the feature unless they pay as well.

If you pay to have it permanently, you can probably recoup some of the cost when you sell. (Unless Mercedes does something so that the feature is gone once you sell, which I wouldn't put past them)

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Re:Renting Horsepower by mysterydip on Thursday May 04, 2023 @04:52PM (#35821885)
This is the same thing people found out trying to sell their used game consoles with a bunch of downloaded games. No extra value to the buyer, because as soon as the seller disconnects their account, all those games disappear. And in the case of the WiiU and 3DS, are now unavailable for purchase.
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