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What are you surprised that people pay for, when there are free alternatives in existence? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 3 days ago by Soulifix@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I was going through my Wal-Mart+ subscription plan that I got for free and I saw their offers. One of which was EMeals, that was a 60-day trial. I thought that this was like Blue Apron or other meal delivery services so I thought I'd take a crack at it and hope that it would get me on a path to eat better.

Turns out, it's just a meal planner. And it's absurd to me why and how would anyone pay for something when there are countless and countless recipes and meal planners readily available for free. Who'd the fuck would want to pay for a planner? That's like paying for a calendar app.

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[–] renzev@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Gray market license keys for software. The money you're paying for these will never make it to the developer, so you might as well pirate.

[–] Soulifix@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 day ago

A lot of them don't even lie about it as much if you read between the lines. GreenManGaming, HumbleBundle are the exceptions to that.

But places like CDKeys, G2A .etc yeah you can't be assured that anything you buy from them is going back to the developer. If the developers so much even hears the existence of these kinds of sites, they'd be protesting to have them shut down.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

On that same idea, camrips sold out of the back of a car. I knew someone who bragged about being able to get them and I always thought they looked like ass. They just liked acting like they had hood connections.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Then there's people paying for pirated software in CDs/DVDs

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 7 points 2 days ago

It's more convenient to have a license. I only buy those when the developer is being scummy