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Re:The upsell game – Vercel upselling tactics revealed by bombcar on Thursday April 30, 2026 @07:25PM (#47969630)
Enterprise pricing always works out to “what can you pay? That’s exactly the price!”
Re:The upsell game – Vercel upselling tactics revealed by gib444 on Friday May 01, 2026 @12:47AM (#47971387)

  price = what_you_can_pay * just_how_much_your_problem_is_hurting_you
Re:The upsell game – Vercel upselling tactics revealed by vasco on Friday May 01, 2026 @01:51AM (#47971646)
This is a very naive take. It's so common to get big companies in as signal to others, or just match the current provider you have for X or offer you a cheap price to then hike it up next year, among many other sales tactics. It's definitely not "always ask for the most if the company has a lot". In fact I'd say companies with more money are more likely to get early good deals.

Have you done procurement yourself at the type of companies you describe?

Re:The upsell game – Vercel upselling tactics revealed by RajT88 on Friday May 01, 2026 @11:18AM (#47975827)
I have sat through a few "license compliance" shakedowns. Sales guys intentionally misreading the license docs to see what they can talk customers into paying. Looking at you, Oracle.