Small companies raising their prices after being made VC bitches is a whole separate genre of cringe.

I’m a big fan of price hikes due to external issues like tariffs, bad harvests, and similar problems that cannot be controlled by the seller. Then, once the problem is gone, the price is mysteriously not updated.

@retoor I'm all in for raising gas prices. ppl shouldn't have cars in cities.

@retoor Police cars are almost always bought at a massively discounted price because it's good for marketing. The - catastrophically underfunded and understaffed - UK police rejected an offer of a few hundred free top-of-the-line Audis recently presumably because they felt it would create this exact kind of false image.

How come such a company, the very last bulwark of virtue in their battle for what is true and just, would blasphemize their noble cause by selling their own interests as compliance to the wishes of its customer base.

Waaaaa