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This type of subscription model is a little less annoying, most "normal" people will sign up for the non-subscription rate, and frequent users are already frequent users, so they will be more OK with a subscription.

Speaking personally, I don't see enough movies or do enough ride shares to want to subscribe to AMC or Waymo, but Doordash would make sense. Maybe it's OK for me to pay a higher price for the ~1 time per year I use those other services.

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I was recently offered a sale price by a restaurant on Doordash, when I was logged out. I logged in as a subscriber and the sale deal went away, which meant that the delivery actually cost slightly more. I've noticed this pattern a lot: the subscription supposedly offers savings, but when you A/B test the same meal against a subscribed/logged in account and a non-subscribed account, the amounts are usually very similar.

My conclusion is that Doordash actually cares more about their non-subscribed users than their subscribers: that's where they see growth.

The problem is that they'll keep advertising it to you. I'm already giving them money, but they'll still push me to subscribe while I'm in the middle of trying to give them my money, because that's not enough for them.

> The problem is that they'll keep advertising it to you

If you don’t like it, then change providers.

If all providers do it, then you must pay to avoid advertisements.

Or, complain to your elected government representatives.

What’s that? Your Chase/Amex credit card gives you a monthly/annual credit? Ok. No more complaints then.

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