[libeclipse]

The marginal cost of digital goods tends to be low

A bigger issue is that anyone with a VPN can access the discount

[JimDabell]

Look at the billing address associated with the payment card. A VPN can’t mask that.

[niij]

privacy.com cards allow any billing address to be used

[dalmo3]

... if you're a US resident.

[niij]

Their terms state you can also be a non-US Resident Citizen (expat). But generally yes that service is only for US Persons.

I wasn't really making a point about privacy.com specifically my comment was more to imply there are services that allow for arbitrary billing addresses.

[SXX]

Debit / credit cards always show country where card is issued. By now you literally can't get card from a country you are not reside in. I guess there are few prepaid card exceptions, but they're generally rarely accepted anywhere. Banning those on e.g Stripe is super easy and a lot of SaaS do it.

I not saying it's impossible to bypass these checks, but you either have to be very tech-savvy person to do it right or you you even have to break the law.

[matchagaucho]

Not if the SaaS has ongoing hosting bills, or years of R&D to recoup.

[TAForObvReasons]

"years of R&D to recoup" does not affect the marginal cost of providing the service to another customer

[mhuffman]

Good luck explaining sunken costs here! I have had many, many discussions about this on this very site and I think that since it is so non-intuitive to anyone that has not taken business courses they just do not believe it.

[matchagaucho]

Going down market with steep discounts most often has higher maintenance and support costs.

[Dylan16807]

Every SaaS has hosting bills.

Some of them are significant per customer, and some of them aren't.