Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel

Re:Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to c... by taffer on Saturday January 20, 2024 @05:05AM (#39066092)

> What's wrong with asking businesses to simply not charge you if you don't use the service

Pay-per-view services exist. Customers seem to prefer subscriptions.

Any subscription model works by amortising costs over a large population, which always means that some people will benefit more than others. To prevent businesses from charging for unused subscriptions, the only solution would be to ban subscriptions altogether and have everything on a pay-per-use basis. That would also include internet subscriptions and transit passes.

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Re:Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to c... by eropple on Saturday January 20, 2024 @03:45PM (#39072116)

> Pay-per-view services exist. Customers seem to prefer subscriptions.

If Netflix will let you pay $2 to buy something from them, they sure don't advertise it. So this assertion requires what the customer wants to buy to be fungible. It's a mindset that requires one to implicitly accept the idea of content-as-gruel, and I think most people don't do that.

It also implies that people are rational and responsive actors and habituation doesn't exist, which isn't true either.

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Re:Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to c... by taffer on Sunday January 21, 2024 @12:57PM (#39080803)

I have no idea what you want to say. Is this what you mean when you talk about riding the personal responsibility bicycle, only this time it is the jargon bicycle?

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