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The marginal cost of digital goods tends to be low A bigger issue is that anyone with a VPN can access the discount
by libeclipse 4y ago
The marginal cost of digital goods tends to be low
A bigger issue is that anyone with a VPN can access the discount
- matchagaucho 4y agoNot if the SaaS has ongoing hosting bills, or years of R&D to recoup.
- TAForObvReasons 4y ago"years of R&D to recoup" does not affect the marginal cost of providing the service to another customer
- mhuffman 4y agoGood luck explaining sunken costs here! I have had many, many discussions about this on this very site and I think that since it is so non-intuitive to anyone that has not taken business courses they just do not believe it.
- matchagaucho 4y agoGoing down market with steep discounts most often has higher maintenance and support costs.
- Dylan16807 4y agoEvery SaaS has hosting bills. Some of them are significant per customer, and some of them aren't.
- JimDabell 4y agoLook at the billing address associated with the payment card. A VPN can’t mask that.
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- niij 4y agoprivacy.com cards allow any billing address to be used
- dalmo3 4y ago... if you're a US resident.
- niij 4y agoTheir terms state you can also be a non-US Resident Citizen (expat). But generally yes that service is only for US Persons. I wasn't really making a point about privacy.com specifically my comment was more to imply there are services that allow for arbitrary billing addresses.
- SXX 4y agoDebit / credit cards always show country where card is issued. By now you literally can't get card from a country you are not reside in. I guess there are few prepaid card exceptions, but they're generally rarely accepted anywhere. Banning those on e.g Stripe is super easy and a lot of SaaS do it. I not saying it's impossible to bypass these checks, but you either have to be very tech-savvy person to do it right or you you even have to break the law.