[mfer]

How many places show a difference in their prices? How often to restaurants, stores, and other as a service companies doing that? I almost never see it. I wouldn't say they are doing something deliberate (in a negative sense). They are doing something pretty typical.

[colinbartlett]

They have a table of everything listed along with a new price for it. All they would need to add is a column showing the existing price. There is a 100% chance they have a spreadsheet internally passed around with that existing price column.

Do you really believe it was a not a deliberate choice to not show the side by side comparison?

[Xorlev]

Restaurants and stores are single transactions, not ongoing subscription services.

DigitalOcean makes you dig for the price increase, which is pretty scummy. They tried to soften the blow with a new droplet which looks even worse. At the end of the day, 20% is a huge change.