{"id":12149,"date":"2023-11-06T18:37:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T17:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/06\/cloud-service-firms-lock-customers-in-while-nickel-and-diming-them\/"},"modified":"2023-11-06T18:37:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T17:37:18","slug":"cloud-service-firms-lock-customers-in-while-nickel-and-diming-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/06\/cloud-service-firms-lock-customers-in-while-nickel-and-diming-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud service firms lock customers in while nickel-and-diming them"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a company\u2019s dream business model \u2013 the services are too difficult to switch, and small price hikes are often overlooked<\/p>\n

Netflix recently announced another price increase<\/a>. It was just a couple of bucks. No big deal, right? Wrong.<\/p>\n

This price increase comes after another announced increase back in 2022 and this time actually ranges from 16% to 20% depending on the service. Why is Netflix doing this? Because it can. Netflix is no dummy. It knows that almost all of its customers will stick with the service even though it\u2019s costing a little more. And they\u2019re right. I love Netflix, so I\u2019m going to pay.<\/p>\n

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\nIt\u2019s a company\u2019s dream business model \u2013 the services are too difficult to switch, and small price hikes are often overlooked
\nNetflix recently announced another price increase. It was just a couple of bucks. No big deal, right? Wrong.
\nThis price increase comes after another announced increase back in 2022 and this time actually ranges from 16% to 20% depending on the service. Why is Netflix doing this? Because it can. Netflix is no dummy. It knows that almost all of its customers will stick with the service even though it\u2019s costing a little more. And they\u2019re right. I love Netflix, so I\u2019m going to pay. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a company\u2019s dream business model \u2013 the services are too difficult to switch, and small price hikes are often overlooked Netflix recently announced another price increase. It was just a couple of bucks. No big deal, right? Wrong. This price increase comes after another announced increase back in 2022 and this time actually ranges …<\/p>\n

Cloud service firms lock customers in while nickel-and-diming them<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}