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Turns out the 80s fearmongering of shoving free/cheap drugs at kids to get them addicted, then jack up the price was prescient after all.
Just with digital subscription drugs instead of narcotics.
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Submitted 6 months ago by Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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radix@lemmy.world 6 months ago
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 6 months ago
To stick with your analogy, I got so annoyed at the gouging I figured out how to make my own drugs and now I deal a little on the side too.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Weed? Or are you an aspiring chemist?
StereoTrespasser@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Why not, if you keep paying?
andrewta@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I can buy 7 movies on physical media for that yearly price. Maybe it’s time to end that subscription.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Fewer than one a month?
I guess a good heuristic is if you don’t watch one or two movies a month on Disney, you should drop Disney makes sense.
andrewta@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I can see why you would come up with that number. The reality is I tend to watch my movies multiple times. This would give me seven new movies per year. On top of all the other movies already own. Plus I still have cable TV, which there’s a good chance I may shut that down and just go with antenna. Which would still give me all of my local channels.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
It’s like when the ISPs area me offer me a 'better Price’s then my current internet plan…I know it’s always bullshit and I refuse to accept the ‘deal’ that they can revoke at any moment and increase the cost of.
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The ISP motto: “I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.”
oo1@kbin.social 6 months ago
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Then stop fucking paying them
Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
It’s kind of interesting, it’s not even mine, just something I took from elsewhere.
Was it necessary to be this agressive?
Anyway, have a good one.
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s just kind of annoying. People that complain about these things yet they are the exact reason it exists because they continue paying.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 6 months ago
And yet the mobile app is still garbage.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The whole channel is kinda going to shit. Even as streaming services go, they rank behind Netflix and Apple.
But they’ve got a brand that people cannot resist. So we keep drinking their garbage.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
It’s just inflation, guys.
tal@lemmy.today 6 months ago
goes to check how much actually is
This is only using yearly resolution, but given inflation from 2021 to 2024, $79.18 in 2021 would be $85.51 in 2024.
That’s 8.95% of the increase from inflation, and 91.05% of the increase being a real increase.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Why are you paying for this bullshit?
Even if it weren’t going up every year. It would still be Disney, an evil as Fuck company.
TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Why do you keep paying??
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
It’s entertaining that nothing posted to this community is mild…
Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Yes, I just noticed the comments can be quite negative. Probably my last post here for a while
InvaderDJ@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s why I cancelled last year. I got it for free through my FIOS Internet connection for a few years, but after that went away I paid for a year. But the price increase was just not worth the like 2 shows and maybe one movie that I watched on it a year.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yargh, matey. There be another option, if ye’ve got tha wit and tha courage.
malloc@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yet the person continues to pay it every single year.
The only subscription that I pay for is subsidized by my cellular provider. Otherwise, my subscriptions would be $0 per month.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m broke AF, but that might actually still be a good price if you’re regularly using the service. Inflation is one, I’m sure, as well as the inclusion of Hulu and their library moving back to their services.
You can pay or not.
WhyDoYouPersist@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I have to think a hard drive and even a VPN service would pay for itself in no time at that cost.
NoneYa@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Not surprising when you look at how much they’ve increased their annual park subscription.
And to be honest, I can’t blame them when people keep buying it and they’re still keeping the parks full. I wouldn’t hesitate that they are having a lot of subscribers too and hardly anyone leaves when they increase the price.
Such a shame for the rest of us that don’t want to put up with these price hikes.
zelifcam@lemmy.world 6 months ago
NoneYa@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I mean it’s enabling Disney to do it, isn’t it?
It’s a luxury service. It’s not a necessity. If it were a necessity, I wouldn’t blame other customers because everyone needs it. But when you keep giving money to a company who keeps raising the price without doing anything to benefit you, you can’t tell me that’s not enabling these anti-consumerist practices.
Going back to the Disney parks, with the price increases, they have actually taken away benefits like no black out dates, forcing members into reservations, and more. And yet people still pay for this…?
Yeah, it is a shame for the rest of us that don’t put up with this and vote with our wallets because it means nothing.
woop_woop@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s hard to have pity for people who do this, especially if enough people stopped, the service would get cheaper.
Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Sorry you went through this. Feel free to report any agressive comment, hopefully the mods will act upon them.
malloc@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Imagine being so poor you can’t buy the physical media, rip it to your media server, and stream at anytime.
Lol, enjoy your shitty subpar streaming service that serves media at less than 4K while paying increasing monthly costs.
JiveTurkey@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is the problem. People keep buying it.
malloc@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I also suspect there’s a dark pattern where the subscriber just forgets it is on autopay.
I want to hope that the person that posted this screenshot disabled auto renewal.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Its a luxury service in a declining economy, when everything is getting shittier and shittier and people will pay through the nose for relief. Why wouldn’t they charge through the nose?
tal@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I’d also point out that Disney’s parks are on the pricey side. Like, they do provide a lot of nice stuff, but it’s not like they’re the only amusement park operator out there.
googles
A few years back, but I imagine the ratios probably roughly hold.
businessinsider.com/cost-us-theme-parks-ranked-di…
On this list of 45 amusement parks in the US ranked by cost, Disney World is #2, Disney Adventure Park is #3, Disneyland is #4, and Disney’s Animal Kingdom is #5.
jettrscga@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is one of my worries with a growing wealth disparity in the world.
The average person is starting to get priced out of any luxury entertainment because there are wealthy people with unreasonable amounts of money to throw at whatever they feel like.
There will always be rich people who can pay whatever price a company asks for.
CarlosCheddar@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We’ll have to wait and see if they get away with it. I may be OK paying more if I already had my mind set on going and didn’t know about the price hike but if the experience is not worth it I won’t visit again.
Went to Epcot in November 2022 and it was the time when I paid the most and the park looked like a husk of its former self. Now I will actively avoid the parks for the foreseeable future.
tal@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I mean, for the parks, I’d increase the price to what the market could bear at the capacity the parks have, but also build more parks, if there’s that much demand.
googles
Apparently they actually do have a 14 acre expansion happening at Disney World at the moment.
www.cnn.com/2024/04/04/travel/…/index.html