Subscription service: Difference between revisions

Subscriptions differ from Purchase|purchases in that when a person purchases a product it is expected that they permanently own the product and have full control over it while a consumer's control over a subscription product/service ends when they stop paying or cancel the subscription; in other words a consumer temporarily controls a subscription product only after a subscription has been purchased while a user owns a product if they purchased the product. Subscriptions can be beneficial for consumers in that they act as a sort of "trial period" where a product or service is accessible for cheaper than it would be if they purchased it to own. Some subscription plans even guarantee their customers frequent updates that would otherwise require a secondary purchase. Subscriptions can also be negative for consumers, however, as companies may view subscriptions as a way to extract more revenue out of their customers rather than a trial period. Additionally, some companies have even [[retroactively amended purchase]]s such that consumers lose access to a product they previously "owned".