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When Dish puts a price tag on a feature such as "External HDD enabling", it's 100% profit.
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What about "free market economy" or "capitalism" do you people not understand? When has profit become a crime?<br />
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[donning flame retardant undergarment]<br />
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Pay the $40 or not. You are complaining about a corporation attempting to turn a profit. Business are not to be confused with charity. $40 is the price you pay to have a feature, what Dish does with that $40 is their business.<br />
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The feature is of a set value to the individual. This value may be greater for some and far less than others, but Dish Network/Echostar sees value and profit in this feature and as a corporation in a free market, they have set a price based on what their research sees as a "reasonable price".<br />
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I for one will jump in with both feet because my drive is nearly full, and with an upcoming television series I will certainly need more storage space. I am extatic that the price is "only" $40 per household, and not $45 or $50 per DEVICE! I am thankful that they didn't choose to enter some sort of proprietary hardware market and require that we purchase Dish Network branded hard drives!<br />
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It's capitalism people, like it or not. The price they charge is the price they charge. Don't like it? Can't afford it? To bad! Your choice is to not pay/boycott, leave for a service that is less expensive, or obtain capitol to start your own company (and then see how your attitude changes when you've got stockholders to answer to).<br />
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There is a reason people pay more for features, take air conditioning in your auto for instance. It isn't needed, but you want it, and you buy a car with it. Or leather seats ...which I do not have by the way, because they hold little value to me and they cost so much. Do I go off ranting in forums that the price of the features on a given automobile are too expensive or that the corporation is greedy?! Nope!<br />
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Now you'll excuse me while I close the windows of my home and turn on the central AC. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></div>
