[rarkins]

Visicom really pumped the ManyCam lifetime upsells. I found 15 emails over an 18 month period in 2020-2021 with them pitching lifetime (which I eventually bought). An example email text they used is:

> Upgrade now to ManyCam Studio Lifetime for only $39 and get access to all the future versions and updates, forever!

What they presented to the user was unequivocal. In a just world, the company who sold ManyCam (Visicom Media) should not be able to get away with this.

[rarkins]

From https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/PALTALK-INC-11131...

> On June 30, 2022, we entered into a License Agreement with Visicom (the "License Agreement"), pursuant to which we agreed to distribute, at the discretion and direction of Visicom, a specified number of ManyCam software updates to certain license holders to whom Visicom has previously granted a "lifetime" license to ManyCam software. As consideration for distributing the software updates, Visicom paid us an initial upfront nonrefundable payment of $65,000. The License Agreement provides that Visicom may purchase additional licenses at prices specified therein. Other than providing a one-time, limited license to Visicom for the distribution of ManyCam software updates pursuant to the terms of the License Agreement, we do not have any obligation to provide support or service to the licensee end users.

[mannykannot]

That pumping might have been seen as a warning that the company either does not intend to support the product much longer, or has doubts that it will be able to do so. And while I agree with your final sentence, unless Visicom was careless, the actual license agreement, which supersedes the promotional claim, will have permitted what happened and so essentially revoked the offer. Caveat emptor!

[mnw21cam]

Not in a large number of countries in the world.

[Takennickname]

Wow how many countries are you licensed to practice law in?

[emodendroket]

The fact they were pumping these for only $39 kind of suggests the reason they never should have made such a commitment in the first place.

[mh-]

They eventually went down to $20 (from $199!), which is when I pulled the trigger, according to the email receipt I just found. January 2021.

I archived the email's "view in browser" link here: https://archive.is/y23DN

[mannykannot]

I wonder, was there was ever a time when buying the lifetime license turned out to be a better deal than a fixed-term one?

[mh-]

Their fixed-term ones are $100/year currently. so, yes.

[rarkins]

This seems relevant: https://contracts.justia.com/companies/peerstream-inc-2967/c...