Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy

• null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I mean, do you have any examples of companies trying to pull this? Where they automigrate one base of users to another tier of whatever it may be, and then successfully pretend it was organic growth?

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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You’re talking internal accountability. That doesn’t apply at this scale.

    The accountability here is to shareholders. And they don’t care about why, just quarterly profits and growth.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is a good one: lemmy.world/post/41564641

    Amazon also got in trouble for auto enrolling people in prime.

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    • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This is a good one: https://lemmy.world/post/41564641

      Did you link the wrong post?

      Amazon also got in trouble for auto enrolling people in prime.

      In trouble with investors for tricking them?

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  • verdi@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Microslop and automigration to the copilot containing 365 sub rather than the default lower priced sub.

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    • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They automatically moved customers to a tier that cost them more money than it did for them previously?

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      • verdi@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yes, at least in Europe they did. Went from 59€/y to 99€/y

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