DStv's pricing problem

for a change the OP is right on the money!

the problem is: despite losing subscribers all the time the idiots keep hiking prices ... supply & demand 1-0-1, your demand has dwindled, you make the supply more expensive ... guess what happens next f-ing retards
 
If we say that the average subscriber fee is R500 per month. 144 000 subscribers cost DSTV R72m per month which is gone! They need to make their fees less so that more people will subscribe but they don't think that way! People rather go for Netflix etc. which is much cheaper!
 
NarrowBandFtw said:
for a change the OP is right on the money!

the problem is: despite losing subscribers all the time the idiots keep hiking prices ... supply & demand 1-0-1, your demand has dwindled, you make the supply more expensive ... guess what happens next f-ing retards
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ala Eskom
 
I see at the end of the article Showmax is mentioned. I currently have a problem with Showmax on my tv so I contacted their support and it's the worst support I've ever had to deal with.

At first I thought it was just that specific person but then I tried again and the people on their live chat do not know the difference between a phone and a tv, much less Android and Tizen. So I emailed them and it took a week for them to reply with I should log out and sign back in again, even though I mentioned in the email that I've done that multiple times.

Then I contacted them on Facebook where they told me I'm on the free tier and I need to sign up for a subscription. I posted a screenshot where it showed I'm not on a free tier. And I told them I can watch on the PC just fine. And they just kept on saying I should buy a subscription.

So screw that. Just like Telkom and Makro, never again.
 
LazyLion said:
The Ironic thing is... if they slashed their prices to R300 a month for the premium package and made it a single tier option with sports, they would sign up like 24 million subscribers.... :cool:

But greed is clouding their thinking.
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Not a bad idea. They could launch a BF promo where new or inactive subscribers pay R500 per month for 12 months. This could test the market then.
 
The problem with DSTV and other large corporations like it, are that as soon as the numbers start to show pressure, they change the metrics to keep the shareholders "confused". They used to measure only premium as premium, then started reporting on subscriber numbers differently, then introduced compact plus as a "premium" service to boost the numbers, then included the 39 rand a month service as part of subscriber numbers .. etc ...

Just like Telkoms fixed line / ADSL numbers back in the day .. accountants doing accountant things, instead of dealing with the real issue, that DSTV has been circling the drain for about 8 years, and they have no brand loyalty left .. in fact ... I would say its the opposite .. people are hoping it will fail, because it deserves to, and people want to see a new more appropriate service rise in its place.

Obviously I feel for the people who will / would be affected by DSTV's demise, but I get great pleasure in seeing the mighty / arrogant fall... If they had shown a bit more sensitivity as a brand over the last decade, it would be a different story .. but they bled every drop from the south african public for as long as it could last...
 
Don't know why people pay to watch repeats and adds and outdated content. There is much better alternatives out there.
 
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