• pdxfed@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    The cost in electronic services is in acquisition; the nominal cost to deliver services to a paying subscriber is lower than acquiring a new one.

    Yes you would flatten your margin with existing customers by not hiking their rates (or not as much) but pretending there won’t be defection assumes near monopoly–which the US has permitted largely for the last 4 decades.

    Cell phone companies made it super easy to leave by only offering good discounts to new customers.

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        7 hours ago

        Jesus…

        This is a couple years old but:

        Shares of Netflix closed down more than 35% Wednesday after the streamer reported earnings Tuesday evening that showed it lost subscribers for the first time in more than 10 years.

        https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/20/netflix-plunges-trading-subscriber-loss.html

        The product is the stock price.

        Amount of subscribers effects stock price.

        They raise price as a reaction to not meeting aubscriber goals.

        Which is a short term fix that needs to be done over and over again.