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Help me find some luxury (strange) product have rrazor and blade business model ? The more funny and controversy the better. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by letme_meowmeow@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Me go first:

Most printer: we all know ...
Keurig: a coffee pod machine that use one-time pod. They once refuse to use third party pod with a chip.
Juicero: a luxury juicer that squeeze juice from repack pod (which you can squeeze by hand). The machine will only work with pre-pack pod. You cannot make the machine work with your own food or vegetable.

You know any ? Any product, startup, dead or alive.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 13 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Peloton. An expensive exercise bike that doesn't work without an expensive subscription, and which has now even resorted to trying to discourage resale of used machines by extorting an activation fee from second-hand buyers.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The thing that gets me about Peloton is running and to a certain extent biking are fairly inexpensive ways to exercise, and they somehow turned that into a high upfront cost with a subscription model.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

Peloton is overpriced to the point of being predatory, but at least the concept of an exercise bike in your house makes reasonable sense. Or at least, it's no worse than mounting your real bike to a stationary trainer.

What really boggles my mind is things like "spin classes" and exercise bikes at gyms, where you waste time/money/pollution/road capacity driving a car to a place, pay to ride a fake bike there, and then drive home again. If you'd just ridden a real bike instead, you'd get the same benefit with both less money and less time.