How did Peloton convince people to spend $20 a month to use their $2500 treadmill

[Dorian Breh]

Morons in here defending other morons overpaying for these bikes

Like you can't buy a cheap stationary + a tablet and have the same experience

 

[NatiboyB]

$20 a month? You wish.

shyt is like $40

Hit ‘em with the $39.95

 

[ImLionyall]

Because people are stupid.

I was just in target today and saw that all the wireless headphones were over 50 bucks with almost all of them being 150 bucks. You had these fools really going out their way to pay 300 dollars for beats by dre because of the name. Headphones used to cost 20 dollars. The most 100. Beats by dre changed that. So now all the headphone companies are charging all this money for headphones. You can forget the wireless headphones. I guarantee those parts are cheaply made in Taiwan or China off of slave labor and break quick yet folks will be willing to pay 300 dollars just to say they got headphones.

Its these stupid people fukking it up for everybody. We need to start smacking these dumbass people some sense. Letting these business scam them. I don't know where these people got the money to spend or wanna keep up with these wack ass uppity Robin leach royalty lifestyles centered around inflated someone's ego usually an insecure person's.

https://m.aliexpress.com/wholesale/wireless+headphones.html?osf=auto_suggest

Look at these prices, it be the same shyt sold in these stores!! China be fukking up the game, use it to your advantage.

 

[dtownreppin214]

42.22 a month after tax.

Copped it during the pandemic, but OP got a point, I probably need to cancel this shyt.

 

[JLova]

I'm gonna own the treadmill in the future when I move to my new place

how is it? What makes it better than others? I’m sold on the bike but I’m playing the long game here. That shyt gonna be half price by the end of the year.

 

[humminbird]

how is it? What makes it better than others? I’m sold on the bike but I’m playing the long game here. That shyt gonna be half price by the end of the year.

they need to make one without the screen. I already have an iPad mini that I bought specially for my treadmill.

 

[RennisDeynolds]

I see PTON owners getting offended and resorting to name calling:

"Y'all dudes are just too broke to understand"

At the end of the day, as gyms and fitness classes come back online, these bikes are an overpriced exercise machine (a technology that has existed for damn near a century) that charges an outsized subscription fee.

And the fact remains that its biggest utility for most owners was its status symbol, and a rather poor one at that. Because unlike a nice car, watch, or a house, a damn bike is not on display for all to see.

Unfortunately, the Company must continue with this subscription-model to continue branding itself as an SaaS and to justify its lofty (and unstainable) valuation. But things are going south very quickly:

that treadmill debacle hurt them badly. They had a good thing going in the pandemic


Lot of imitators

 

[JLova]

they need to make one without the screen. I already have an iPad mini that I bought specially for my treadmill.

thry won’t get rid of the screen. That shyt allows them to charge up the ass.

 

[The ADD]

how is it? What makes it better than others? I’m sold on the bike but I’m playing the long game here. That shyt gonna be half price by the end of the year.

Tread is dope. My view is the level of content/instructors. I generally hate treadmills but they have programming that makes it enjoyable even for me.

 

[Mr. Togo]

how is it? What makes it better than others? I’m sold on the bike but I’m playing the long game here. That shyt gonna be half price by the end of the year.

I want it for the reason this thread is about the subscription coaching, no interest in biking but I do want the treadmill, I have one now but want a bigger upgrade

 

[Wildin]

Because people are stupid.

I was just in target today and saw that all the wireless headphones were over 50 bucks with almost all of them being 150 bucks. You had these fools really going out their way to pay 300 dollars for beats by dre because of the name. Headphones used to cost 20 dollars. The most 100. Beats by dre changed that. So now all the headphone companies are charging all this money for headphones. You can forget the wireless headphones. I guarantee those parts are cheaply made in Taiwan or China off of slave labor and break quick yet folks will be willing to pay 300 dollars just to say they got headphones.

Its these stupid people fukking it up for everybody. We need to start smacking these dumbass people some sense. Letting these business scam them. I don't know where these people got the money to spend or wanna keep up with these wack ass uppity Robin leach royalty lifestyles centered around inflated someone's ego usually an insecure person's.

Kids Altec Lansing Bluetooth Wireless Headphones (MZX250)

19.99

At target.

I have a pair I use when running. They're $20 Bluetooth and come with an aux cord and charging cable.

They're all the kids get too cause they break'em.

Thank me later.

 

[Wildin]

Once that bike is half price I’ll jump in.

You better be checking Craig's and FB.

I literally copped my co-worker a new one for $950 just like Nov 10th.

Person that bought it said they didn't use it as much as they thought and the subscription was worthless for them because it was out of their price range because they didn't ride enough. The guy wasn't a fat b*stard either.

 

[Wildin]

Peloton ain't doin nothing that echelon ain't doing and echelon is a quarter of the price.

 

[saulhoodman713]

My wife wants a Peloton bike but doesn’t even hop on a bike when she goes to the gym so that definitely ain’t happening

 

[GatorStaceyAdams]

Peloton Shares Sink on Report of Production Halt


Obviously not convincing enough people