Ring push out mandatory 43% price increase

[Dr G]

https://support.help.ring.com/hc/en-gb/articles/19...

No reason. No increase in service. No new features. Only 2 years on from another large % increase (£25 to £35).

Ring acting like greedy little bullies. Already well reported in tech media, and all over forums/support groups.

Have cancelled my automatic renewals and will seriously look at alternative hardware.

[myvision]

Got the email myself and thought the same i'd only just renewed at £34.99 but won't again.

[DanL]

Hmm - £80 to cover multiple devices, or at least it was. Is this going up too, do you know?

[Beethree]

Yup absolutely outrageous.
Get everyone to buy a Ring product, then up fees massively. Fantastic business plan!

[Digger]

It’s only an extra £1.25 per month, which is how they’ll explain it to you . . .

[Semmelweiss]

Just cancelled my recurring renewal.

[ooo000ooo]

Any suggestions for an alternative?

[J210]

Every year the punish single device owners. All to try and justify owning multiple devices.

[Hoofy]

I always try to avoid subscription services. This is why. (Unless they say that you can lock in the price forever.)

Can you use the kit without subscribing?

[neth27]

I have the ring door bell but don’t have the protect plan. What does the protect plan add?

[ARHarh]

I feel this is the way most "smart home tech" will go in the next few years. Lots will head over to subscription based services once they have a large enough user base tied into their services.

The servers cost money to run, and unless they get lots of new customers each year they will need to charge. Cameras are the first as they take a lot of storage and bandwidth. Everything else will follow. I am surprised Philips Hue have not gone down this path yet.

Or they could just switch off support for their older tech and force customers to upgrade.

[phil-sti]

Is this only on the yearly plan?

[TikTak]

ARHarh said:

I feel this is the way most "smart home tech" will go in the next few years. Lots will head over to subscription based services once they have a large enough user base tied into their services.

The servers cost money to run, and unless they get lots of new customers each year they will need to charge. Cameras are the first as they take a lot of storage and bandwidth. Everything else will follow. I am surprised Philips Hue have not gone down this path yet.

Or they could just switch off support for their older tech and force customers to upgrade.

Exactly what I was going to say. Not even the worst price hike going. You want these services you need to pay for them, we're so far from you get what you pay for and that's it.

It'll come to a head though, like it has with streaming services and people will back out because they realize they don't need all this stuff.

[Philvrs]

Amazon trying to get some return on its 1$ Billion Dollar investment

[tr7v8]

OK unfortunately wife bought me Blink cameras for Xmas.
I already have a Ring doorbell (mains powered) and 2 chimes.
How do I convert to Eufy which looks pretty good? Can I use Ring chimes on it?

[dundarach]

I bought a pan tilt £40 camera from Amazon, has sound and video and emails me too.

[JQ]

Hoofy said:

I always try to avoid subscription services. This is why. (Unless they say that you can lock in the price forever.)

Can you use the kit without subscribing?

Yes. It just won't record anything.

neth27 said:

I have the ring door bell but don’t have the protect plan. What does the protect plan add?

It means you can record all movement outside your house in the cloud. Without it it's just an expensive live only video doorbell.

[DodgyGeezer]

JQ said:

It means you can record all movement outside your house in the cloud. Without it it's just an expensive live only video doorbell.

couldn't you just record to a hard-drive in the house/garage/whereever?

[Hoofy]

JQ said:

Hoofy said:

I always try to avoid subscription services. This is why. (Unless they say that you can lock in the price forever.)

Can you use the kit without subscribing?

Yes. It just won't record anything.

neth27 said:

I have the ring door bell but don’t have the protect plan. What does the protect plan add?

It means you can record all movement outside your house in the cloud. Without it it's just an expensive live only video doorbell.

Ah, there must be a hack to record to a local drive?

[Sheets Tabuer]

DanL said:

Hmm - £80 to cover multiple devices, or at least it was. Is this going up too, do you know?

No, just the council version.