Ring: extortionate price hike

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Just me who thinks the Ring doorbell subscription has had a ridiculous price rise?

Current annual price: £34.99
New annual price: £49.99

That's huge. 43% increase 😳

If you're on a security light subscription, you could replace it with a solar light that comes on with movement. We have one from the Solar Centre and it's been fantastic. Cost about £20 and unless the rules change, the sun is free

I switched at the end of last year from ring (when it died) to eufy which doesn’t have a subscription model, you just use an sd card to keep the recordings

I purchased one in the black Friday sale. Got a month free subscription and then did without for a couple of weeks before signing up to the yearly subscription a few weeks ago. Does that mean my subscription will continue at this price until its time to renew next year or will they take the extra money from my account when the price goes up on 11 march? Sorry for being a bit thick but the email doesn't really explain this. Thanks

Yes. And if you really want you can download any videos of interest and save on your phone forever. We have the wired in eufy.

Greedflation.

It's about £1.25 per month,
I couldn't get worked up about that.

I've just done this too! Brilliant tip. I was very pissed off about the price hike.

Oh that is a lot. However, as well as the doorbell I have several ring floodlights around the house and garden, so it would cost me a fortune to replace all the hardware with similar!

I never realised they had a subscription, what a swizz!

We have ring doorbells and lights but don’t pay the subscription. I’ve noticed that since covid the ‘free’ services have been massively reduced, to the point where they are only good for answering the door/checking the cameras in real time. Won’t replace when they break, will probably go for a proper cctv system instead.

My Eufy stores the recordings on an SD card (in the chime located indoors, not in the doorbell itself). It depends how big your storage card is and how many events you have as to how long the recordings are kept (it just records over the oldest clips once it runs out of space). You can view / download to your phone using their app.

Huh? The price increase makes it much more than £1.25 a month?

We have cancelled our subscription as a direct result of the price rise. It just seems like pure greed from Ring.com & once this one inevitably starts showing poor battery life etc will swap to a different brand.

I'm probably going to keep it for another 12 months as it's cheaper than buying a new doorbell and have a rethink in the black Friday sale

I have the nest/ google doorbell. The annual fee went up from £100 to £120 P/A at the end of last year.

We have a doorbell and a camera covering the front of our house. The protect plus yearly subscription, is £80 and covers the household, no matter how many devices we have. We currently have the basic plan on each of the devices as that is £70 a year, so when the renewal is up, we will switch to the protect plan.