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You know this was not yesterday but in 2010 right?

IIRC it was like 70$ for premium. You know the radio and their competitors were free back then right, and the radio had less ads? I had actually paid previously but they screwed up my account a few times, I forget the details.

Now I get prime music with my prime account and a bunch of other stuff including video for $9 a month.

I thought it was pretty dumb to pay for a service where I couldn't pick what I wanted to hear. I also didn't play for XM at $10 a month when it came out.

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In 2010 it was $40 per the year, or about $3.33 per month. Ridiculously cheap in my opinion.

Yes, not a great response however the time value of calling in to complain easily exceeds $40.

> the time value of calling in to complain easily exceeds $40.

Fortunately, at least some people value their principles more than their time.

How exactly is that a principle? He wasn't forced to listen to the ads, he was able to pay to have ads removed.

His principle was that he found the ad unpleasant and didn't want to hear it anymore.

I'm all for fighting for what you believe is right but it's a bit exaggerated when you're aren't forced to use the service, can pay for the service to remove ads and yet you claim to stand on principle.

If you were standing on principle, you would refuse to use Pandora because they are funded by an "unsavory" company and not just call to say you didn't like the ads playing on the free service that they're providing to you.

stopping using them without telling them why is pretty in-effective. They turned the campaign off a few weeks later.

You're right on the price I was going off memory. I actually value the entertainment of being disgruntled with a product sometimrs and talking to CS about it. I actually value new experience even if it's not really please tell. I was deposed once on pretty easy terms and thought it was very interesting.

And that $40 saved apparently got me 40 hacker news points as well ;).

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