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I know bikeshedding about names is discouraged, but in the case of signatures, isn't there a desire to evoke a "trust" feeling? It's hard to tie "cheap" to "trust". Some other synonym like "eco" might project trust better.
I will never understand why so many products offer saas pricing when it is of no benefit to the consumer. I don't want to be paying $10/month for something I might only use a few times a year. Just let me pay as I go. I'm relieved to see that model here. Finally. I signed up and I hope other services will follow suit in the same way and relieve us of saas pricing fatigue. Interestingly a startup I helped with some BI…
I'm tired of modern "subscriptions everywhere" too, but OTOH SaaS is burning money even if nobody's using it at the moment. AWS doesn't care if EC2 instance is idling :-) That cost is either included in pay-as-you-go price, or paid as a subscription fee.
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"lawyers will claim the third-party website is bogus" Docusign is bogus too. Either you buy a real eIDAS-compliant certificate and sign things cryptographically, or you are faking it, broadly equivalent to "tick here to accept the agreement". The only thing Docusign "proves" is that someone with access to your email signed the agreement.
That is for the EU. The equivalent regulations in the US are much more lax. > The only thing Docusign "proves" is that someone with access to your email signed the agreement. Also IP address and timeframe, which might be sufficient in the case of a dispute. Still, I agree investment in better authentication is worthwhile.
But that's roughly equivalent (but more convenient) to emailing each-other - your email provider will probably have records of your IP address too.
I know bikeshedding about names is discouraged, but in the case of signatures, isn't there a desire to evoke a "trust" feeling? It's hard to tie "cheap" to "trust". Some other synonym like "eco" might project trust better.
Unfortunately, 100% agree. When we signed purchase documents for our house, $2 for e-Signature was nowhere near the top 99% of costs/concerns :P. If our real estate agent sent us to "CheapSignatures.com", yea... we would've been uncomfortable. Irrational? Perhaps. Probably. But that's the gut reaction either way :|. If their aim is to capture potentially larger market of lower-revenue transactions, something like "St…
> Bikeshedding, also known as Parkinson's law of triviality, describes our tendency to devote a disproportionate amount of our time to menial and trivial matters while leaving important matters unattended.
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I'll never understand using "cheap" for a company name, especially when people who require signatures are usually in very professional environments. - They're positioning themselves to always compete on price, not offerings. - It's professionally embarrassing to use a product named "cheap" anything. I have so much trouble recommending namecheap.com to my clients because of this. They're reliable and budget friendly b…
Discount tire is the best tire place I have dealt with hands down. I still have people look at me like I am nuts because of the name.
- Discount is only referring to price while cheap can refer to price as well as quality.
- They’re going after a different segment of the market. Business to Consumer clients are not expecting the same level of professionalism as B2B clients would.
- Maybe it’d be a concern if they only sold their own tires. You might figure lower price means lower quality products. However, they sell the same tires as everyone else. It’s easy to see that it’s just a price play, not quality.
I will never understand why so many products offer saas pricing when it is of no benefit to the consumer. I don't want to be paying $10/month for something I might only use a few times a year. Just let me pay as I go. I'm relieved to see that model here. Finally. I signed up and I hope other services will follow suit in the same way and relieve us of saas pricing fatigue. Interestingly a startup I helped with some BI…
Would you mind sharing that startup you advised?
I will never understand why so many products offer saas pricing when it is of no benefit to the consumer. I don't want to be paying $10/month for something I might only use a few times a year. Just let me pay as I go. I'm relieved to see that model here. Finally. I signed up and I hope other services will follow suit in the same way and relieve us of saas pricing fatigue. Interestingly a startup I helped with some BI…
The counter-argument to that is that pay-per-use discourages usage: "every time you use it, you pay" encourages you to be mindful about how much you use. You may not binge entire series on Netflix if you have to pay for each episode. You may justify a Photoshop subscription so that you have a powerful tool ready whenever you need it, but maybe you would think twice about making a meme if you had to pay for it (with m…
I do agree that in the case of something like Netflix a monthly subscription is a good idea, but there are many instances where pay as you go can work so much better.
I know bikeshedding about names is discouraged, but in the case of signatures, isn't there a desire to evoke a "trust" feeling? It's hard to tie "cheap" to "trust". Some other synonym like "eco" might project trust better.
One of the best pieces of advice I got when I started my first business (A PC Repair business) was to use the term inexpensive instead of cheap for this reason.