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Monthly equivalent in title while the billing period is 1 year or more
itachikonoha
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Recently I am seeing lots of threads popping up where the headline says, "X $/month!!!!!" but when you open the thread and check, the link will show that they have just divided the annual amount by 12 [which will be hidden behind a pile of texts].
This is a very misleading promotion in my opinion which might cause following issue:
X $/month (no strings attched) and (X*12)$/annum are two very different products. You are writing headlines as if there is no committment required except month to month contract yet in reality, it is an annual contract.
It also shadows the providers who actually provides month to month price yet higher price since it is actual month to month contract and not annual.
In my opinion, if it is annual, the title should directly read "$48/annum" and not "$4/month". Both are not equal even though numerically one may want to manipulate so.
From selling rules:
6. List total price per billing period, not just equivalent monthly cost.
These threads are also breaking rules.
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thanks for highlighting 🫡
The worst of them all is the one with $22/year and when you look inside, minimum 3 years for that lmao.
iykyk.
I hate it when providers offer terms that are bigger than the time they(or their lineup) have existed.
Yeah commiting for that long is a bit hard
I always liked how @Clouvider did this (I dislike other things they did, but how they did this really deserves credit)
They had a big discount for first term, or a smaller recurring one
Where in all ”/month” or ”/year” marketing they used the recurring version
And then in the thread they offered a choice further down
hard agree title should show actual deal, not after maths.
Collect the feathers and heat up the tar for the next provider that does that.
This used to be a rule, but it was either removed or is no longer enforced to it's intent. If I can't make a purchase of the product listed in the title for the price listed in the same title, I won't do business with the provider that listed the offer. Integrity is important and if you start out telling me you don't have any, I'm out.
$1/mo (Prepay 500 months required)