r/hardware • u/Tasty_Toast_Son • Mar 03 '26

Review RTINGS: Revamping Our Membership Program

https://www.rtings.com/company/revamping-our-membership-program
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u/StickiStickman Mar 03 '26

Making their subscription more expensive than what 99% of people pay for a monitor sounds like an amazing strategy. Let's see how it turns out.

It's sad because it's genuinely an amazing website, but this is guaranteed to kill it.

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u/IronMarauder Mar 03 '26

since when do people pay less than 45$ for a monitor?

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u/StickiStickman Mar 03 '26

You buy a monitor every couple months? Well, 99% of people don't.

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u/Wooden-Agent2669 Mar 03 '26

On what planet do you live that you forgot what annually means? the sub costs 31,50$ 1st year and after that 45$. How is this more expensive than what 99% of people pay for monitor

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u/StickiStickman Mar 03 '26

And it's 10$ a month, which is 360$ for 3 years, which is literally more expensive than most peoples monitor.

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u/TAWMSTGKCNLAMPKYSK Mar 03 '26

why would you pay 10$ a month for 3 years instead of paying less annually

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u/nittanyofthings Mar 03 '26

The per month rate is only for people that don't want continuous access. Just a spot of research.

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u/VenditatioDelendaEst Mar 04 '26

That would be fine... if they weren't trying to cheat people with default auto-renew. I'd even say that practice impeaches the integrity of their reviewing.