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Comment by cwyers | Hacker News Reader

It costs $84 for an individual. I support their right to charge whatever they want for their product, but I had to click through about three pages to get to that info, so I though someone else here might want to know that up front.

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This sentiment gets shared a lot. In cases where someone is shopping around for a specific product, it definitely makes sense to make the price as obvious as possible.

But in cases where the service needs to be explained and demand generated AFTER explanation in can be counter productive to lead with pricing.

That's why I have noticed a lot of sites lately don't show a pricing page at all. And no amount of looking and searching through the site will turn up a price list. Just places to sign up to learn more.

But if you google the product name and the word pricing, they will have a dedicated pricing page in the search results that isn't linked to from anywhere inside the site.

Definitely a dark pattern.

Why should I want to buy a product/service when you are so bloody shady about the price...

Even though everybody is downvoting me (which just proves that this malicous way of dealing with your potential customers has already crept into everybody already sadly): If you are doing something like this I don't want to make business with you – which is the opposite of what you want, I s'pose.

Really appreciate your feedback! The price is now more clearly listed on the sign-up page, along with the free trial.

and it says: "Free for the first week.

$84 thereafter."

so, is it $84/week?

They have edited the site (and added the free trial!) based on feedback here.

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