to offer an equivalent replacement at the same price. Rather than changing the agreed-upon terms, we have decided to shut down the node. Great—no alternative or offer provided.

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Very reasonable take here. The only thing I would add is that when providers do annual deals that are sold as recurring, and then raise the price substantially before the first renewal, that isn't as

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You'll be surprised to know how many people don't read emails, regardless of how often you send messages or how many days in advance you notify them of price changes.

I do understand that a contractpartner will want to change the contract when the contract duration ends ( alias start on next due date ). So maybe he will cancel the product. Maybe increase the price.

A company emailing me that they are increasing prices is getting dropped. - there, I fixed it for you, it was broken. (Image)

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For example, you, I, or anyone else cannot know that selling 500 VPSs at 0.10 USD/MO that cost 10USD/month to operate might not result in 3K new customers paying full price over the next 6-12 months.

A company emailing me 10-14 days beforehand that they are increasing prices is getting dropped.

I believe that any provider has the right to change prices, but usually within certain rules:

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In balance sheet, any deviation from normal price will be a promotional expanse or in this case, I may call it as even customer acquisition cost.

Reputation has a price, and not all business can pay it all the time.

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Funny to see that from May, and now there have been 2 significant price increases (just on HDDs) since then. It's definitely a complex situation, bit of greed/bit of some hardware vendors being squeez