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Financial people love the idea of subscriptions
Every car they sell is an income stream for the next x years - when x may be up to 10 maybe
Of course, at some point they may decide to 'upgrade' the central system and you 5 year old car that you bought second hand will require several hundred pound to install a new board somewhere so you can keep using it
I would guess that this will be a main dealer only 'upgrade'
The problem is that people don;t really look ahead at costs - after all it is only a few quid a month
I got this sort of thing a lot when I was an IT Technician in school. Teacher and management would come along witha really wonderful new IT system or website that they wanted to start using.
OK - how much?
It's only £x and then £(very small amount) a month per user
By the time I added up the full costs over 5 years it had normally gone to a figure that made the senior management squirm.
but I was the only one that seemed to see it
according to some people I was always negative
but over 5 years this sort of subscription can get silly - especially when you need a connected system that will last the lifetime of a car - which could be 15-20 years
Every car they sell is an income stream for the next x years - when x may be up to 10 maybe
Of course, at some point they may decide to 'upgrade' the central system and you 5 year old car that you bought second hand will require several hundred pound to install a new board somewhere so you can keep using it
I would guess that this will be a main dealer only 'upgrade'
The problem is that people don;t really look ahead at costs - after all it is only a few quid a month
I got this sort of thing a lot when I was an IT Technician in school. Teacher and management would come along witha really wonderful new IT system or website that they wanted to start using.
OK - how much?
It's only £x and then £(very small amount) a month per user
By the time I added up the full costs over 5 years it had normally gone to a figure that made the senior management squirm.
but I was the only one that seemed to see it
according to some people I was always negative
but over 5 years this sort of subscription can get silly - especially when you need a connected system that will last the lifetime of a car - which could be 15-20 years