Staying with Ring Doorbell?

[dapprman]

With the increase in annual subscription from £35 to £50 next month (making it double in just over 2 years) I'm wondering whether to renew in July. My only option, aside from going with a normal bell (giving up on the remote answering and viewing) is the Eufy with Homebase, but that's now over £200 or about £175 in the sale (I think Costco may reduce it more occasionally). Added to this, none of my three batteries seem to hold charge particularly well (bought a spare then on my third replacement noticed the return text said to keep the battery), dropping from full (or what ever is full after a couple of months) to 20% in about 3-4 weeks.
My pros are:

• Response to the door bell is quick and I can often remotely respond before the visitor goes.
• Audio and video is decent quality on my present and previous devices (was terrible on the first).
• When I have had problems the support has been great resulting in my first Ring being replaced, being given a Chime Pro to test/improve wifi, my second being replaced, my third being replaced and upgraded for free to a 3, and my Chime pro being replaced and upgraded to the newer version for free when that also failed).
• Stored video can be useful and I did once send some to the police.

However...:

• Motion detection has never worked for me across all four door bells.
• I'm on my fourth unit in just under 4 years (had the present one for a couple for year now).
• When will the subscription increase again .....

As I know there are a few other users on here, have any of you decided what you are going to do ?

[dapprman]

On the motion detection I have it set to detect but not alert me. It occasionally triggers when a car or a person walks past along the road/pavement but never when someone walks up to the door .....

[dapprman]

Timothy Bucktu said:

I had no idea these Rings had a subscription...that's nuts! Talk about fleecing rich clueless people!

The subscription is just for the saving of recordings and for being able to remotely respond when someone rings the door bell. It is the latter I find rather useful.