• @krelvar
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    3926 days ago

    “Must survive on sales alone.” 1700 dollars for this thing… that would be your sales, you greedy fucker.

    • @[email protected]
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      725 days ago

      Exactly. Either sell products for a premium price or give it away for free and then nickel and dime every function, not both.

      • @[email protected]
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        425 days ago

        Oh no, this is a dark path… There’s a third option…

        Starts rocker

        Rocker plays soft lullaby

        Rock a bye baby
        On the tree top
        Dendrine’s new treats
        Are perfect for tots
        If you need diapers
        Try our new style
        Half price at Wall-mart
        For just a short while.

  • The Pantser
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    2726 days ago

    America: Land of the fee

    • @moistclump
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      726 days ago

      And the laaaaand of the feeee and the hoooome of the slaa…

  • @spongebue
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    1825 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      125 days ago

      “Did you argue with your wife last night about vegetables? Did your teenage daughter make noise in the baby’s room at 3am and lie to you about it? You need: WomanGuard. The only quantum-aligned energy emitter that protects you from women problems. (sideeffectsincludebwingcalledstupidanddivorce)”

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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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.

  • @Tylerdurdon
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    826 days ago

    Squeeze every penny… The greed is overflowing

  • @EnderMB
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    224 days ago

    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.

  • @automator404
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    123 days ago

    This reads like a headline from a Black Mirror episode.