Would that not have been better to on 29th February the day before subs go up? Not a trick question. I'm not sure if possible. Surely everyone will do that who wants to keep it. Or can you only do that if on monthly payment plan? Mine renews annually in November.
Frankly obscene Ring 42.8% subscription increase
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Would that not have been better to on 29th February the day before subs go up? Not a trick question. I'm not sure if possible. Surely everyone will do that who wants to keep it. Or can you only do that if on monthly payment plan? Mine renews annually in November.
We're here to be fleeced. They're all at it now.
Yea I have a eufy 2k doorbell, probably the same one as you and it works great, probably a bit more expensive to purchase but it'll make that up within the first year easy.
I dunno why you'd pay a subscription for a ring doorbell you'd have to have your head examined.
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Would it not be postable on said here forums?
It's an APP called Pushover
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FYI my daughter uses her Ring doorbell without a sub, she doesn't get picture notifications or the videos being saved
You also can't configure intelligent motion notifications where it detects people. Not sure if you can still setup all the detection zone stuff either and tweak it.
You also lose snapshot captures which are useful as you get a picture every 15 mins going back a fair way.
Had a ring doorbell for a bit. Found it totally unreliable at notifying.
So bought a Reolink and ran some PoE Ethernet cables (yes, plural - only have one camera and only one PoE injector but was able to run 4 cables once I did this as it wasn't much more than just one at that time).
Haven't looked back. The Reolink never misses anything and seems far more reliable and I get by with an microSD card, no subscription!
EDIT: anyone know of a per product inflation tracking website? As for a non physical product, this might have set a record. Or not!
So bought a Reolink and ran some PoE Ethernet cables (yes, plural - only have one camera and only one PoE injector but was able to run 4 cables once I did this as it wasn't much more than just one at that time).
Haven't looked back. The Reolink never misses anything and seems far more reliable and I get by with an microSD card, no subscription!
EDIT: anyone know of a per product inflation tracking website? As for a non physical product, this might have set a record. Or not!
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Just read the email and not happy with such an increase, tried we chatting with them to have a moan but it said 25 min queue and then it disconnected.
@Feek Have you checked that the cancel and resubscribe thing is indeed doable?
When I first got mine, it was the first on the road I live on and slowly a few more started to appear and I upgraded to the whatever brilliant one at £24.99 a year.
When Amazon announced their price increase to £34.99 a year I wasn't interested and switched to the Reolink (local storage and no yearly price)
Since I dropped the Ring a walk around where I live see's nearly every other house, give or take, with a Ring doorbell, so with the increase in sales and not that long after Christmas Ring decide to drop that massive price hike on people.
Naughty imo
When Amazon announced their price increase to £34.99 a year I wasn't interested and switched to the Reolink (local storage and no yearly price)
Since I dropped the Ring a walk around where I live see's nearly every other house, give or take, with a Ring doorbell, so with the increase in sales and not that long after Christmas Ring decide to drop that massive price hike on people.
Naughty imo
I haven't because my own subscription is due on the 1st March. I saw it mentioned elsewhere by someone who claims to have done it.
I've been talking to a friend who has his own business fitting security systems, he loves Ring because so many people buy them, have issues with their WiFi (it's really not very good) and then ask him to replace them with something else. However, when I described all the features to him and everything that it's capable of doing he said that fifty quid a year is a decent price! It may be a decent price but it's the sudden increase with no perceived benefit that's the problem here.
Especially as Ring are owned by Amazon, so you just know Amazon are using their own datacentres and running this service at a massive margin.
Yep, mine was flaky on WiFi for a bit. Just a case of tweaking with bands and power I found. Been fine for ages now. Got it linked to a Honeywell bell and it works well. Swell.
Yes it's disgraceful but at the end of the day you have a choice not to pay.
Don't complain, just don't pay.
As they’re now owned by Amazon, I doubt they’ll care how many people cancel.
Which is exactly what I wrote in my reply and was pointing out that this increase from Amazon is naughty for those that are new or tied into Ring.
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My Reolink doorbell and Front camera are on 24/7, the other two on motion.
They also record to my Synology NAS.
It has it's occasional tech farts, but isn't that normal across all tech and tbh has been pretty solid for me.
I would definitely consider the Reolink as a replacement to my Nest if it dies, seeing as they have a PoE version now. Or potentially the UniFi doorbell now that I have a Dream Machine Pro. Staying away from the unifi cameras though, very overpriced for what they are IMO. Maybe if money was no object.
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