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04-25-10  03:26am - 5355 days Original Post - #1
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Retention Discounts

Whilst not wishing to 'look a gift horse in the mouth', I am a little ill at ease with this.
When I see it, I think 'How long have I been paying over the odds?'

If the webmaster is prepared to market at a reduced price, why isn't it offered to loyal repeat customers automatically?

I don't quite lump it in with the 'regional pricing' scam, but I put it on a level with the non-porn related widespread use of promotional offers to attract new customers, whilst giving existing long term customers nothing.

I would be interested to know others thoughts.

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Edited on Apr 25, 2010, 03:58am

04-30-10  08:44am - 5350 days #2
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It obviously doesn't bother anyone else then.

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04-30-10  11:08am - 5350 days #3
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I suppose I just look at it as, if the work the guy puts out is good, like it would have to be to have a long term membership, then he deserves the money I give him. Life is too short to be fiercely protective of an amount like $10.

04-30-10  11:18am - 5350 days #4
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It used to bother me that new customers were offered a better price than what I was getting, on things as different as a newspaper subscription or water-treatment service or whatever. Wasn't the idea that customer loyalty was rewarded being observed any longer? But then I realized that we live in the real world, where ideas like loyalty are the bullshit people sell to other people while ripping them off.

04-30-10  01:39pm - 5350 days #5
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Originally Posted by lk2fireone:


...then I realized that we live in the real world, where ideas like loyalty are the bullshit people sell to other people while ripping them off.

Careful - you're starting to sound like me. Sarcasm is a body's natural defense against stupidity.

04-30-10  02:32pm - 5350 days #6
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Is it disturbing that porn sites are offering retention discounts? No. I've taken advantage of my share of them.

I've also taken advantage of retention discounts offered by my local newspaper when I was going to cancel, as long as they offered them, then I canceled.

I know a co-worker that got a great deal from Comcast when she called them to cancel her cable TV, saying that it was too expensive.

It's called Marketing and so long as it's giving something more and not taking something away, then it's not a bad thing.

In all these cases, and with any retention discount, it comes down to this - it costs more to get a new potential customer in the door to buy your product than it does to keep getting money from a person that has already been giving you money - about twice as much, according to studies that I've seen on the subject.

04-30-10  04:18pm - 5349 days #7
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Sometimes you hit good timing for a deal, and sometimes you don't. It all evens out in the end. Couple months ago I picked up a year subscription to sapphic-erotica for a $100 special, where current subscribers still only had 6 months for $100. And, if I wanted too, I could have passed on that deal, and in a year subscribe for 1 month @ $20 and downloaded all the updates.

Life just becomes more enjoyable when one stops worrying about squeezing every penny of value out of something. I'm not being loyal to them, and they are not being loyal to me. Although it is hella fun when the site *does* respond and is loyal to me

04-30-10  10:24pm - 5349 days #8
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Afford what you must, and save for what you can not afford.
The reward to event is sweeter if its special and not just another purchase. Since 2007

05-03-10  03:12pm - 5347 days #9
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It is the principle of the practice.

Ethics?

Nah forget it!

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