this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
427 points (97.8% liked)

Buy European

5549 readers
546 users here now

Overview:

The community to discuss buying European goods and services.


Matrix Chat


Rules:

  • Be kind to each other, and argue in good faith. No direct insults nor disrespectful and condescending comments.

  • Do not use this community to promote Nationalism/Euronationalism. This community is for discussing European products/services and news related to that. For other topics the following might be of interest:

  • Include a disclaimer at the bottom of the post if you're affiliated with the recommendation.

  • No russian suggestions.

Feddit.uk's instance rules apply:

  • No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or xenophobia
  • No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies
  • No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users
  • Do not share intentionally false or misleading information
  • Do not spam or abuse network features.
  • Alt accounts are permitted, but all accounts must list each other in their bios.

Benefits of Buying Local:

local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.

European Instances

Lemmy:

Matrix:


Related Communities:

Buy Local:

Continents:

European:

Buying and Selling:

Boycott:

Countries:

Companies:

Stop Publisher Kill Switch in Games Practice:


Banner credits: BYTEAlliance


founded 3 months ago
MODERATORS
 

Obligatory !linuxphones@lemmy.ca plug

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] ne0phyte@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

But why if the customer didn't need any support and didn't cause any cost on your side? In B2B you are often mostly paying for the actual customer support, no?

How is it fair to not need any support and then have to pay for past months of smooth operation to get (security?) updates?

Edit: I get that further development and keeping products secure isn't free, but why not make it e.g. a 6/12 month subscription then? That way you can't just pay for a single month to get your issue resolved/software updated but also don't need to pay for the past.

[โ€“] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

having a support subscription, means being entitled to support... you were entitled ask the time.

I guess it's just different business models - it's cheaper to always pay in contrary to only pay when you actually need support....