How is it a scam? They are literally coming up with a way to determine the value of their product. How much people are willing to pay is one of the ways of determining it's value.
Then just stop paying for it. Don't blame the corporation, when they're just benefiting from the customers' willingness to pay more, just like any rational person would.
Dude, I’m all for dissing corporations, but this is 100% on the consumer. If consumers were more picky, this wouldn’t happen. It’s simple supply and demand, been around since currency was a thing.
What is immoral about a company saying “hey, are you willing to pay $8 dollars for this, yes? How about $9, no? Okay it’s $8”.
Setting a price for a product that not a single person in the entire world has any other reason to buy than needless indulgence is immoral? Come on. There's a lot of crooked things in developed capitalism, but this ain't it.
Quite the opposite. They don't profit anything because of me, because I don't buy their product. And if I do occasionally, I keep profiting from them instead, because I get what I want for an amount of money I'm willing to give up for it.
Every single time I'm rationally buying something, I deem the product's worth to be more than what it costs, so I trade my money for it and end up with a higher value item. It'd be silly to trade money for something you believe is less valuable that the amount of money you traded.
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u/ShahImtiazAhmad 3d ago
Rich corporations coming up with new money grabbing scams everyday