Actually no, I didn't, and I would have thought differently about buying credits if I had. I actually think it's their obligation to mention that to potential buyers if they were considering that possibility.hibidy wrote:But it's IK, you knew this would happenbluedad wrote:true, but they're readjusting the value of credits not just raising prices.hibidy wrote:Well......I hate to add a point.....but they have every right to raise prices.
Are you saying we should have known because IK has done this before, because you generally don't like the company, or because the world sometimes decides to suck? As I said, I'm fairly late to the IK party, and I had no reason to expect this that I'm aware of, other than general cynicism about corporate ethics.
For an example of another approach, Amazon raised the price for Prime a bit ago (don't want to debate its worth or other ways it might be a rip, this is an example of how a price increase could be handled, nothing more). That's all they did, simple and clean. NEW Prime subscriptions cost the NEW price. They didn't tell all existing Prime customers they'd have to pay more to continue, or accept slower shipping, they honored the agreement those customers paid for, at the price they paid.
Let's hope IK's price changes are relatively small. But of course we won't get info about that until prices have already gone up, and it's too late to base decisions on it. Total corporate BS.
Every day companies have the choice to ENHANCE their reputation, BUILD customer loyalty, INCREASE connection, or take short term profits. It's sad when they take the cheap shot, and ultimately it harms the business, because it pits the company against their customers, not where any company wants to be.
I've stood up for IK when other people bashed them for what seemed like emotional reasons as far as I could tell, but I'm pissed.
The key here is the phrase "starting from the next subscription period." The Prime subscription you bought still continues exactly as you bought and paid for it. The NEXT time you subscribe, the price will be higher, and you can decide at that time whether it's worth it to you or not. The benefits of your current subscription haven't changed, "honoring the agreement", only the price of future subscriptions has increased.
