Parents outraged at Snoo after smart bassinet company charges fee to rock crib for crying babies
Parents outraged at Snoo after smart bassinet company charges fee to rock crib for crying babies
The bassinet costs $1,700 — then the subscription fee kicks in
"Must survive on sales alone." 1700 dollars for this thing... that would be your sales, you greedy fucker.
Exactly. Either sell products for a premium price or give it away for free and then nickel and dime every function, not both.
Oh no, this is a dark path... There's a third option...
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For just a short while.Well yeah, I think this news will reduce sales. Bad business move really.
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The company's founder, Harvey Karp, said the pricing change was necessary to "bring in revenue," noting that the company was not underwritten by a university or the government, and must survive on its sales alone.
Um, yeah? Many companies do that just fine.
Just wait until they find out the amount of telemetry it collects and sends to advertisers, or until it turns out video recordings of the babies were stored somewhere and a giant databreach leaks the videos for all to see.
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LOL. I can't even get angry at this one. It's just so preposterous that some executive dreamed this up, and then consumers actually purchased it. You can get one that you wind up for 94% cheaper, and it doesn't even need electricity.
Shit like this blows my mind. Just to think for how long you even need a crib for a baby.
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Severe lack of sleep tends to do that to a person. Don't blame the exhausted parents, blame the greedy fucking CEO's.
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Squeeze every penny... The greed is overflowing
Since becoming a father I've been absolutely amazed at just how awful the baby market is for shit like this, whether it's locking key advertised services behind subscriptions, treating staff like shit, releasing faulty products, having awful customer service, you name it.
The worst part is that there is such a strong market for "momfluencers" that you'll find that every brand has ambassadors that sign up for free, get money off of their products (sometimes not even that, just being able to get new products a day earlier), all for them to shill on social media.
I promise you, let the dust settle, and within weeks if you were to raise his in Instagram someone will reply to tell you to "drop it" or to "stop being so negative". The last time Kyte Baby went through some shit for firing an employee for being in the NICU and not in office their affiliates were commenting on "negative people's" pictures to criticise what their babies were wearing/using, because it wasn't their brand.
Snoo are big on the affiliate thing, much like Kyte are, and I promise you their affiliates will be on damage control soon.
This reads like a headline from a Black Mirror episode.