Peloton’s New Fee Punishes Secondhand Buyers - This cannot be normalized!

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@RehabFlamingo 16 дней назад

What Louis says makes me angry, but the fish make me happy. I think the addition of the fish is a healthier method of content consumption.

@anstropleuton 16 дней назад

Louis changed his video style (No I mean the other things in the video: cats at the end of video, fish pond at the end of video, clouds/scenery, etc.) & title/thumbnail style (clouds thumbnail, his face like traditional youtube style, cats, fishies, etc.) like if it's a party trick Guess there is always something new every week :D

@computeroid6162 16 дней назад

A Subway Surfers alternative for the folks with brain rot

@Nevir202 15 дней назад

What we need in future is fish in the main screen, Louis in the little window lol

@SilverCymbal 17 дней назад

You can't fool us. You are just teasing us with the fish feed, free for now. Next month it will be a subscription

@Kane0123 17 дней назад

Ads are coming… Rossman branded fish food being sold on a fish feed. Big koi gets everyone eventually.

@5nowChain5 17 дней назад

@@Kane0123Remember Mr.Clintons Greenies😂

@mattice9083 17 дней назад

Lmaoooo

@OneIdeaTooMany 17 дней назад

@@Kane0123Hahahahaha Big Koi!!!!!

@Loridak-q1p 17 дней назад

this makes me smile

$@countfrackula6707$

@countfrackula6707 17 дней назад

It should be illegal for the manufacturer to remove purchased features or functions from a product that was resold as used.

@mrkthmn 17 дней назад

They'd probably just say you never owned it in the first place therefore you never actually sold it to the next guy and since the corp gave a $mill in donations to the right people last year the courts will say they companies right.

@skidooshlayman12 17 дней назад

legislation too slow, must revolt

@DAxBatres 17 дней назад

What is buying a BMW? 😅😂

@Ichijoe2112 17 дней назад

In all fairness, what have Peloton actually removed? It's an older meme but, it still checks out. If you the original owner, ever decided to cancel your "Subscription" then they would lock your Device to.... Protect the Children! I sh---it you not. I'm sure Louis covered that Many, many long moons ago. This "On-boarding" Fee is just a blatant cash grab.

@adolfdoenitz3380 17 дней назад

whoredic track does the same with their i-fit bullshit :(

@-Johake- 17 дней назад

TAAS(Treadmill As A Service) is crazy. Not something I would’ve thought would have existed 8 years ago

@rossmanngroup 17 дней назад

Life is a service, and the only subscription that has a 0% chance of turning into ownership or unlimited renewals.

@imbalancedstatus8824 17 дней назад

Dude, I refuse to pay more than 300 for a good bike... to ride outside. I hate these stationary bikes

@MrJeree95 17 дней назад

@@rossmanngroup Just you wait

@a9ball1 17 дней назад

One thing that would help us if you pay this money it's also going to extend the warranty.

@householdhacks 17 дней назад

@@rossmanngroup sounds like taxes controlled by corrupt politician.

@beejls 17 дней назад

Just another corporation doing what corporations do, screwing us over. Thanks for fighting for what's right, Louis.

@imbalancedstatus8824 17 дней назад

First world problem... they wont try this in third world, i mean developing countries

@aleks138 17 дней назад

they're only screwing over the idiots who shit

@apocalypse487 17 дней назад

@@imbalancedstatus8824because 99% of people can't afford it anyway.

@JoesBrandonomics 17 дней назад

They're screwing themselves over because this just depreciates their used products. Don't buy from them and assume other people are smart enough to be doing the same.

@moonasha 17 дней назад

@@imbalancedstatus8824 they're too busy trying to figure out how running water and toilets work to worry about this stuff

@0utc4st1985 17 дней назад

Take your smartphone, strap it to a standard "dumb" exercise bike and boom, you've got a Peloton at a fraction of the cost and no fees. The solution is simple, stop buying overpriced junk.

@user-ul7jb8cl7g 17 дней назад

In my case, it is an exercise bike, a small TV and a Roku. And a fan.

@Samael1113 17 дней назад

To be fair-ish.... No. Peloton employs personal trainers for live one-on-ones and classes through their app and equipment. While the physical product would be close enough, you'd not have the option to access the other Peloton resources. There's plenty of argument to be had about value of the various products (both personally and in general), but there are services there that go beyond just the bikes or treadmills that have value to some people out there - enough that they were, and are, fairly successful as a company. Peloton just has no idea how to manage the surge in adoption, followed by mass abandonment of products that the pandemic brought with it, while keeping short-term investors who bought in, and also failed to understand that situation who are now looking to sell, happy.

@bobclarke5913 17 дней назад

Or, get an actual bike and go see something real.

@pigletshut 17 дней назад

@@bobclarke5913at least, a $50 bike trainer to let an actual bike doubles as a stationary. Add a car alternator and battery bank for good measure. Of course, actually going out is best.

@Knowbody42 17 дней назад

Here's an even cheaper solution: Go outside and do your running.

@badddkattt 17 дней назад

MY treadmill is _not_ being used as a clothes rack. It’s covered with file 📦s 😊

@nickkomlev687 17 дней назад

Boxs?

@GrahamBarth 17 дней назад

Large and impractical single.belt holder for me.

@traolin5877 17 дней назад

Peloton has physical stores with cafes in them. Not the best decision makers tbh

@Kane0123 17 дней назад

Which gym had a smoothie bar? I think it was planet fitness right?

@JamesJamersonIsAGod 17 дней назад

@@Kane0123pretty sure Planet Fitness gives out pizza…

@Yewtewba 17 дней назад

@@JamesJamersonIsAGodjust looked it up, lmao free pizza on the first Monday of every month, and muffins on the second Tuesday of every month

@trillowl7836 17 дней назад

@@Yewtewba This is true. The donut and pizza days. And excessive treadmills.

@The_Real_Grand_Nagus 17 дней назад

@@trillowl7836 I don't know, I go to PF and I never see any pizza there.

@jessicav2031 17 дней назад

Hahaha. This video literally popped up while I am watching YT on my treadmill. Which is not connected to the Internet, by the way. It doesn't have an app. It just has speed buttons.

@Syncrotron9001 17 дней назад

Your phone can hear the sound of the treadmil and identify it as such.

@Kane0123 17 дней назад

You’re watching from a clothes rack?!

@sassafras710 17 дней назад

He's a huge youtuber with a big pull on algorithm, especially as of lately. If you're watching anything tech-related, you're going to get Louis. Lots of people use treadmills. Completely coincidental.

@jessicav2031 17 дней назад

@@Syncrotron9001 My phone is degoogled and only runs F.Droid apps. But okay and? What, "they" are going to know I used a treadmill? The point is that the thing is not remote-disableable, it was made before all this product crapware. And that I actually use it.

@Kane0123 17 дней назад

@@jessicav2031just accept that your treadmill is actually a 198-D chess move by Big Koi to get you to buy fish.

@Jacob42610 17 дней назад

"if you are at the point in your life where you are not willing to walk out of your house to walk and do exercise..." - probably also a slogan of some treadmill company.

@andrewditton7226 17 дней назад

I read this as he said it.

@Ichijoe2112 17 дней назад

There are some reasons against this false argument. 1) Not everyone gets to live in the Sub Tropics / Tropics / The Equator as a whole. For some of us Global Warming is still very much a fairy tell that Ganja Greenies tell their Children about when they want them to grow up to be Activists who want to super glue themselves in to the Road. Then there are Obese People not unlike myself that can barely make a click without nearly kealing over.* * Well that was the case about a year, and 35KGs ago. With the currently dying year, I have been using the "outdoors" more so than that Treadmill. But what was that GoT line again? Something about Winters coming? Round here that could be as early as next month. Or by latest November when it gets in to negative Temps during the Day. e.g. it will be prime Treadmill time again.

@CptJistuce 17 дней назад

@@Ichijoe2112Dude, Louis lives in Texas these days. The Summer with a capital S is real, and so is the heat stroke. And he's FROM New York, so he knows about Winter with a capital W.

@MonkeyJedi99 17 дней назад

I would go outside more if there were fewer humans out there.

@NuchiAsaki 17 дней назад

It's not safe for me to be walking around outside at 2AM so I use a treadmill.

@Holycurative9610 17 дней назад

After 20 years of laptop repair I found myself overweight and fat so I started a volunteer job at my local church keeping the graveyard tidy. Grass cutting, strimming, general tidying up and some other bits which was a great way to get fresh air and some exercise. I admit that the first 6 months nearly killed me but after losing 30-40lbs I felt better and then I was offered a gardening job that paid so I took it. I don't need the money TBH but I do enjoy the exercise and the best thing is I get paid for exercising. Stop wasting money on the gym and expensive treadmills and go volunteer or take an outdoor part time job and you'll get better results doing 4 hours of hard work on a weekend than you will on your Peleton if you do 3 hours a day!!!!!

@grante1461 17 дней назад

Underrated comment. Here's 10k updoots

@lennard5393 17 дней назад

Proud of you man

@Karthig1987 17 дней назад

Gym isn't a waste of money

@Karthig1987 17 дней назад

Excellent life change though

@JoesBrandonomics 17 дней назад

@@Karthig1987 some people don't see the value in sweating under fluorescent lights and recycled air if you can roam freely outside while getting vitamins and dopamine from the sun, microbes from the air, etc.

@StubbyPhillips 17 дней назад

"If cloud then NOPE." Simple.

@andrewT23 17 дней назад

Peloton has punished their first hand customers for years. They charge the people who actually buy their equipment 3 times as much per month for the classes as people who use non-Peloton equipment. And the Peloton equipment has zero smart functionality without the membership.

@4bSix86f61 17 дней назад

Peloton be like the piece of crap spotify car thing. No monthly subscription, no function.

@Fatty420 17 дней назад

You know what's going to happen now: That used BMW you bought that you were even willing to pay for the subscription heated-seats-as-a-service won't work without paying BMW a $1000 "new owner activation fee".

@awesomehli 17 дней назад

I made a similar comment..it's not about Peloton. It's the ideas and how it will now spread to everything possible! $1000 BMW fee! You're way too generous..it'll be 10% of the purchase price!. Heck even a paltry 5% sounds better

@Boz1211111 17 дней назад

Sad. Had 1996. Bmw and it was very interesting car. Nice seats, nice engine, fuel economy wasnt too bad. Realised im more of an economy person so now im driving french car with great fuel economy and regular random failures

@MattH-wg7ou 17 дней назад

All part of the "you will own nothing and be happy" plan...

@4514LU 17 дней назад

Did you pay your monthly breaking fee? We unlock the other 60% of your breaks if you can just pay an extra 9.99

@rachelarmstrong807 17 дней назад

So true! It could be applied to everything. The car dealers could require a fee for the car to even run.

@ptrinch 17 дней назад

If someone sells their Peloton, it's because they aren't using it anymore. If they aren't using it, they aren't paying $40 or whatever a month subscription either. Yet if they sell it to someone else, the other person would likely start paying the monthly subscription. Now, management is faced with two options... 1) Encourage and facilitate the sale of their equipment to people who will use it. or 2) put up barriers for user to user sales so that their equipment remains in some dark basement and not longer generating recurring profit for you. Really scratching my head as to why they would take option 2.

@Robutube1 17 дней назад

...or option 3: built in obsolescence; supply product with physically limited lifespan.

@3nertia 17 дней назад

Because capitalism is stupid xD

@matt45540 16 дней назад

Because they only care about selling new ones

@Entertainment-is6ex 16 дней назад

Because they think the same people that would buy a used Peleton, would also be willing to pay full price for a new one 😂

@ptrinch 16 дней назад

@@Entertainment-is6ex Those people would buy a new one anyway.

@TestECull 17 дней назад

Video game publishers tried this shit a decade ago to curtail used game sales. Claimed it was 'lost revenue' and tries to either A: completely brick the game for the second buyer or B: paywall significant enough portions that the game was unplayable without paying them an activation fee. It went about as you would expect, but game publishers had another option Peloton does not have: The product was essentially just 1s and 0s. So that's why you can't hardly buy a game on physical media anymore and even when you do all it is is an installer. It'ss also why game publishers started putting so much emphasis on pre-orders; you can't sell a pre-order secondhand so if you get gamers super hyped and release pre-order slots you can make a killing before the game even releases. Microtransactions are also a result. Publishers figured out that even if you buy the game used the MTX store is still just as lucrative as if you buy the game new, and these days the MTX store is the bulk of publisher revenue anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if Peloton is looking into monetizing their stupid treadmills this way. We're starting to see this shit creep into cars so the precedent is there. It does sadden me...NOT surprise, just sadden...that the ills which drove me away from video games as a hobby are creeping into the real world.....

@MattH-wg7ou 17 дней назад

All part of the "you will own nothing and be happy" plan...

@thesenamesaretaken 17 дней назад

@@MattH-wg7outhe "you will give us a dependable income and our shareholders will be happy" business plan

@tgheretford 17 дней назад

They've been asking for the same measures for physical, non-internet games from the 2000s and before. They claim that additional second hand sales of an item doesn't generate compensation for their intellectual property and gives nothing to the artists, programmers, musicians and so forth - therefore it must be banned or the law changed.

@TestECull 17 дней назад

@@tgheretford Yep, and they conveniently ignore that the developers are A: Some of the most abused workers in America who barely see a penny off their work and often get laid off week of launch, and B: That compensation was already delivered when the game was purchased new. 🤷 What we are seeing now is that shit jumping industry...the canary in the coal mine was video games and it didnt suffocate, so here we go......

@frankburnstein1195 15 дней назад

Oh right I remember psvita games having that annoying "Online Pass" system. Where physical games came with a single use code to enable online features. If it was already used, you had to buy the "Online Pass" just to get full access to the game you paid for.

@patrickm2912 17 дней назад

Ea tried the same basic concept around 2010. All their games required an online pass to access online multi-player. New games had it free. Used games paid $10 for it. Stopped quick lol

@burchified 17 дней назад

I've been riding the same Airdyne for 30 years. The damned thing is appreciating value at this point.

@elone3997 17 дней назад

You know how your elders would always say "They don't make them like that anymore"? It's literally been happening forever hasn't it? The slow but sure decline year in, year out of everything I mean...Wow, sorry, that was a doomer reply 😉

@davidraborn3654 17 дней назад

The only Subscription I will pay for is Utilities like Electricity and water, Insurance is pushing the limits already. No company will have access to my bank account monthly.

@tablettablete186 17 дней назад

At least paying monthly for water and electricity makes sense, just like food.

@DerykRobosson 17 дней назад

Except for the bank.

@jetfu400 17 дней назад

Dude, what about internet, netflix and chill 😅

@bradhaines3142 17 дней назад

dude gotta agree about insurance. if it wasnt legally required i wouldnt have it

@JackCarsonite 17 дней назад

@@Carl-Gundersonnot if they own 😊

@a9ball1 17 дней назад

We should pass a law that says you can't alter a eula after the purchase. Just like the price. Right now if you buy a widget for $100 they later can't say now it's worth $125. Only the new buyers have to pay more.

@Terran.Marine.2 15 дней назад

That's a sensible idea.

@calubiouspanacek4073 10 дней назад

Inflation tho. 100 = 125 after enough time. Same value product, but the value of the exchange currency has gone down.

@M00NM0NEY 17 дней назад

When Louis Rossman greets you in the beginning of the video… he is hoping your day is a lot lovelier than the information he is about to give you.

@andrrru9 17 дней назад

My $825 rowing machine is not a clothes rack! ... (It's a shelf- stacked high with boxes of car parts😢)

@EcchedinStone 17 дней назад

The fact people will say 'just lye down and take it' is why this world is so fucked up

@ObakuZenCenterUSA 16 дней назад

^ This.

@paulk5670 17 дней назад

Counterpoint on your treadmill take: Climates that get a large amount of snow in winter. Sure you *can* exercise outdoors in winter weather... but it's a heck of a lot easier to do inside when it's -20°C out.

@tissuepaper9962 17 дней назад

nordic skis, brother. cheaper than a new pair of running shoes if you buy used.

@MulletHamster 16 дней назад

Put on more clothes and run faster.

@cruejones742 17 дней назад

Remember when Dana White of the UFC, in the middle of a podcast, called his people and had all Pelotons removed from the UFC years ago?

@MattH-wg7ou 17 дней назад

A Theo Von podcast! Yup!

@KatsuneGaming 17 дней назад

I actually live in a house with a Peloton tredmill... I can honestly say that I have used it multiple times, as it's usually too hot outside to go for a walk/run, and I only use it as a blanket/towel drying stand when one of those non-dryer-able ones get washed. It also has a pre-paid subscription because my Grandfather (who actually owns it) decided to ask for that a christmas or two ago. Honestly... I'm just glad there's a small manual button in the top right, and it isn't pay-walled (and I know it isn't because it still worked for the several years it didn't have that subscription). Moral of that story: Peloton can take that $99 surcharge for second-hand buyers and put it where the sun don't shine. If this one breaks, I'm more tempted to just build my own than buy a new one.

@mrwonderful2142 17 дней назад

A treadmill should only be used as a food conveyor belt to get the next course closer to the couch

@aj.j5833 17 дней назад

I have a friend who has a tread mill that gets used. His dog loves it and uses it all the time it is one works just by running on it.

@richtes 17 дней назад

My cat is overweight. How do I get him to use the treadmill?

@nerdful1 17 дней назад

There is/was a video of a cat on a treadmill in water walking to the tune of beegees staying alive.

@Tobi-ci3ns 17 дней назад

It's just such an absurd business decision. All of these tech companies are desparate for that subscription revenue, Apple is handing out 3 month free trials for Apple Music, and meanwhile Paleton is out there like "Nah, if you want the privilege of sending us subscription money every month, you gotta pay a fee first"

@seigeengine 17 дней назад

I mean, I feel like most of their customerbase won't care Peloton isn't really targeting people who are money conscious in the first place.

@DMartinov 17 дней назад

0:05 it’s because the destination for us is to own nothing and be happy 😅 uncle Claus said it

@hyperfox805 17 дней назад

I love it. Pissing into the ocean is a perfect description.

@jbird999cg 17 дней назад

if a device needs to connect to the internet that is not a computer you're probably getting screwed.

@rars0n 17 дней назад

They can't charge more for the treadmills because very few people are still buying Peloton treadmills. This is all about charging the existing user base.

@Code7Unltd 17 дней назад

I believe the word is "saturation". Capitalism is tied on money constantly moving about, but when perfection (read: can't sell "new and improved units") and saturation (read: everybody's got one) are achieved, what happens?

@SlinkyD 17 дней назад

@@Code7UnltdI see red everywherem

@piconano 17 дней назад

This doesn't apply to me. Exercise and I, are mortal enemies.

@DarkForce2024 17 дней назад

Same. Someone once said Exercise, and I thought they said Extra Fries!!

@Throefly 17 дней назад

The manufacturer of the Snoos "smart bassinet" just got caught doing the same thing. Why sell something once when you can sell it and then also collect rent?

@JamesJamersonIsAGod 17 дней назад

Oh man isn’t that thing like $1,800?!? The baby gear manufactures have started going crazy once they realized their sales would plummet once the market was saturated with their new overpriced tech stuff, just like the Owlet monitors and baby-socks and all that. People tend to give it away second hand or sell it once they are done having kids… So much of that stuff is bricked within 3-4 years by them controlling Apps and whatnot. Even if it’s not a subscription service they just destroy anyone’s ability to use it again. Truly disgusting.

@rachelarmstrong807 17 дней назад

Thanks for mentioning that! It’s just more evidence that companies are hopping on the bandwagon. Something has to be done or everything including cars will be like this.

@GamerGee 17 дней назад

Things we now have to download. Excersize treadmills .

@protogenxl 17 дней назад

The video game industry tried this with the codes included in new copies of the game for "bonus items"

@McEssen 17 дней назад

"But Louis, if you're willing to spend $500 a year ......." & "Shut the fuck up you little simp!!" My favorite bit.

@mangusta800 17 дней назад

"It won't kill you" brother you lived in New york you know what kind of neigbourhoods there are around towns.

@scimbrelo 17 дней назад

this will catch on, for the simple reason that if you want to buy a peloton your decision making process is already compromised

@KL-sd2bw 17 дней назад

Louis gives successful life advice to the masses yet again: "Go outside."

@Canleaf08 17 дней назад

make your politicans building ped and transit friendlier cities and you’ll have a gym outside…

@wlday_ 17 дней назад

my grandma got one of these as a gift. they give you ~3 months free before they ask you to pay. she enjoyed it, however the big screen is basically a paperweight now since it cant be hacked (not that i know of) which really sucks because its just a giant android tablet. so many things you could do with it if it wasn't locked down

@harambeduck4110 14 дней назад

so call it by it's name: e-waste... and there are probably some green-guys cheering this company.

@willclevett7560 17 дней назад

Peloton was a company I looked at investing in when people were going mad about them during covid, they couldn't even turn a profit when everybody was locked in their homes and couldn't go out to exercise. I don't understand how you can charge that much and still be losing money tbh.

@WiseWik 17 дней назад

Goods are now services. Services are now subscriptions. Welcome to greedy technocratic economy.

@shadowninja6689 17 дней назад

The dumbest part of this is that Peloton is destroying the first-sale value of their machines to, because now that consumers KNOW that they've pulled garbage like this in this past, who can trust them to not do it again in the future if you want to sell your Peloton, thus harming the resale value of your machine farther?

@Crippledsasquash 17 дней назад

Electronic Arts tried something similar to this about 15 years ago. If you bought a second hand copy of one of their games you could play the offline content. But if you wanted access to the online portion of the game it was £10 payable to ea just because you didnt buy it brand new. This lasted for a couple of years before backlash and loosing sales made them change their minds.

@paulthecpa2717 17 дней назад

Imagine buying a book, brand new from the book store. Then when you sell it, the new owner has to send money to the publisher to be able to crack the book, open and read it. No one would stand for that shit. Yet here we have another story of the same theme. Continuous payments to use a tangible asset that the original owner took title and possession of. There would be a pitchfork and club mob out in front of the publisher.

@John7891 16 дней назад

Stop putting ideas into heads of publishers!

@KentSpain85 17 дней назад

Hey! I run (or ran) 6 days a week religiously for years. I love running. 98% of the time it's outdoors, in a park, through streets, etc. On vacation I usually use the gym at the hotel or cruise boat. But about a month ago my knees began to hurt so I took a week off, and I started to run and they still hurt a bit. So now I run 3 days a week outside. We bought a walking pad for rainy days during covid lockdown, we have a rowing machine and a stationary bike (as my spouse doesn't know how to bike, but it's great exercise for his joints as he has bad joints). None of these devices are connected to the network. While cardio CAN be "free", not all forms ARE free, and there is nothing wrong with buying a bike that does just that, be a bike. Or a rowing machine, or treadmill if you live in a poor climate, etc. So, just stay away from online / service based cardio / equipment and you should be fine. Buy what makes your life easier and better.

@hamsterbrigade 17 дней назад

The fact that they didn't make the "high quality onboarding experience" an optional a la carte item, for second hand purchasers, tells you everything about their confidence in being able to sell the "high quality onboarding experience" as an actual value to the end user.

@ARockRaider 17 дней назад

Hold on, this company's business model is selling overpriced exercise equipment and selling a monthly subscription to use that equipment and they're still losing money? HOW?! Moreover, how do they think charging new customers $100 extra for something just because it was bought secondhand is going to improve things? The second-hand market for an item like this means that you are continuing to have a customer for that individual device! Otherwise, the current owner is probably just gonna take it to the dump and drop it off! If the company wanted to be good about it, they could offer existing Customers are return option where they purchase the device for what most people would sell it second-hand for. Then they get to overcharge their extra hundred dollars and still look like the good guy. (Because now it's "certified refurbished".)

@cheeseburgermonkey7104 17 дней назад

"To make sure you get the same experience whether you're buying our stuff new or used we're gonna jack up the prices of buying it used" Makes sense

@MrSahlensguy 17 дней назад

The government is guilty of it too. When you buy a used car from a private party, you need to pay SALES TAX!

@Gisiebob 17 дней назад

that's true of any exchange, really. it's just cars are notable for it because the government has an agent in the deals for registration, cars are usually valuable enough to merit actively taxing, and they are a common enough second hand purchase that many laymen have had the experience

@SlinkyD 17 дней назад

@@GisiebobOf all the laws I've read just to know which one's I'm breaking, Mississippi of all states say you don't need a license plate which means no registrstion. Won't stop you from getting pulled over. But you can quote the statute & be about your business in no time.

@greedtheron8362 17 дней назад

I bought my treadmill during a heatwave that wasn't looking like it was gonna end in the next week. I do use it at least twice a week and folds flat against a wall when not in use. But it was around $200 and buying workout plans for $45 per month is just dumb.

@MulletHamster 16 дней назад

just run is that so complicated than you need to pay for that info?

@TheSweetSpirit 17 дней назад

You're kinda right with a treadmill, but there's the issue of trying to exercise when it's 90+ degrees outside, or 0 degrees outside. Gym exists for that, or treadmill exists.

@DarkForce2024 17 дней назад

Best solution I found for this is actually free, go to the mall and walk. Since everyone shops on Amazon these days, mall stays mostly empty, and they keep it a cool 72F year round. Now, that's won't help you if you lift weights or something, but if all your doing is walking, this works great. Don't even have to send a certified letter on a Tuesday only in the rainy season if you want to cancel!

@SlinkyD 17 дней назад

The heat and cold gives better results. My brothers go to the gym but they can't handle ±15 room temp. I make 'em overheat then break them down like fractions.

@TheSweetSpirit 17 дней назад

idk, sometimes it gets a bit... too much. 90 degrees F can be doable depending on humidity, sunlight etc, but sometimes it can just get so bad. It's hard to run/speedwalk with icy conditions, too.

@nathankey2007 17 дней назад

Treadmills were once used as torture devices.

@matthiasz.6708 16 дней назад

"Cardio, my friends, is free" will be my personal mantra to start exercising again!

@test-rj2vl 17 дней назад

Fix it by replacing motor with table saw motor and no need for activation. You just press the button and have nice 5000 RPM going.

@stephenalexander9558 17 дней назад

375th! Sadly in our "throw it away society of goods" manufacturers hold the "hidden belief" the true value of their products are purchased new! Anyone purchasing their products "second hand from someone else" is a loss of possible additional revenue! Wow! ARG! 🍀🙀😤 😇

@linkurosawa1711 17 дней назад

Reminds me of the online passes during the 360/PS3 era, lot of devs adding the online pass so you had to pay an additional fee if you bought the game used.

@KarmaticEvolution 8 дней назад

It’s been forever since I have been recommended one of your videos but I saw you and Reddit and decided to search and happy to see you have been posting still!

@huf67 17 дней назад

1:25 ... Waterboarding experience 🤔 ??

@user-Aaron- 17 дней назад

Yep that's what came to my mind too, probably because I imagine them to be similarly enjoyable experiences.

@hillarym4550 17 дней назад

Thanks for fixing my computer! No one else would fix it. You saved my life!

@dumaskhan 17 дней назад

we need our high seas friends to start polishing their swords and take to the seas.

@Da40kOrks 16 дней назад

I learned my lesson about cloud connected things with Hot Wheels ID. Spent a bunch of money on the cars and track for my kid, and one day they shut down everything, and everything that made them special was gone (now they are just normal hot wheels that cost 5x as much) and the bluetooth track piece does nothing.

@sirraymondluxuryyacht8131 17 дней назад

I have a bowflex bike but tried the Peleton App for a while. It was hard to find an instructor who wasn't a douche. One guy was flamboyantly gay, and the other had a smug grin and kept licking his teeth the entire workshop...Admittedly, I'm easily irritated but still ... LOL

@argavyon 16 дней назад

People don't like nickel-and-diming, but corporate does

@BCNeil 17 дней назад

One of the best stocks to short this decade. Did you know during covid, their market cap was higher than GM or Ford? Over $160 a share, now under $5

@TheMalcolmPowder 17 дней назад

Thing is, I can go straight from my treadmill to my couch. If I go outside, I may go too far, and then it is a long walk back to my couch. 🤤

@MidlifeRenaissanceMan 17 дней назад

Koi fish as a service.

@utubepunk 17 дней назад

Bro, I live in Texas, too. Over 100°F the last week or two, real feels hitting 110°F! Ain't nobody going outside for cardio. I'm the exception to the rule. I broke our treadmill from usage & now looking for a good, used replacement.

@iamnoname-a1 17 дней назад

They can't sell it for $95 or $100 more. I worked for a knife company a few years back. We had started work on on-shoring our production of specific products in the US, post tariffs that went into effect around 2017. The customers were asking for this change, and there was now a financial incentive to do this. Fast forward a few years with the first product lines that get displayed at Shot Show. The predictable onslaught of comments were "you want that much for that knife?" A quality knife that costs more to produce by fellow Americans was completely rejected by those same Americans wanting cheap shit but asking for quality made-in-America products. Pelaton has to sell their products for as cheap as possible then add on everything they can to make up the difference due to "you want that much" sentiment towards everything. Not arguing for this additional purchase BS that keeps happening, but I can see where it comes from, even if the company is trying not be greedy.

@JamesJamersonIsAGod 17 дней назад

Man that’s gotta be frustrating! It’s one reason a lot of companies won’t even make premium priced American Made products anymore, the people that want them often won’t fork over the cash. Then other companies are still make product abroad cheaply, but maybe a little above WalMart quality and the wealthier people pay extra just for the brand name, not really even caring about the quality not being premium…

@rallyfeind 17 дней назад

This has nothing to do with them wanting the profit from a private sale of used goods. They only get paid for the product purchase from them end of story.

@dragmil.9475 17 дней назад

That is not logical in the least. Americans cannot simply shift the pricing to a later point. You get from that kind of thoughts to a mandatory tipping culture and wages low as ever.

@SchplatJR 17 дней назад

This reminds me of Mass Effect 2. This game came out when EA and other companies were trying to combat the secondhand game market, especially GameStop. They added the Cerberus Network. In order to use it, which I believe was required for using DLC, you had to buy into it. Every new copy came with a “free” key. But you had to buy a key if you bout a used copy.

@rustymustard7798 17 дней назад

Louis is just ragebaiting us into watching his cool fish cam at this point lol.

@houserhythm 17 дней назад

That's not entirely true about never using it. The key is to not put it away, though. having it right there, just needing to push a button and start running does make you more likely to run. Putting as few (mental) stepts between you and the thing you want to do, does help. For example if you want to play the guitar, don't put it in a case, in a closet, leave it in the open, nearby and you are much more likely to grab it; even though it would take 30 seconds and no physical effort to get it from the closet, mentally you have 3 more actions to do - get up, open the closet, open the case - and your subconscious will try to "convince" you that's too much. Wanna read a book? Leave it right next to where you usually sit, not in the book case. Same goes for exercise - putting on your workout clothes, going ouside - those are extra steps that will make it less likely you'll do it.

@timewind3870 17 дней назад

Always puzzles me. People choose to DRIVE to stinky crowded gyms just to walk on the damn treadmill!!!

@stusue9733 17 дней назад

I know a guy that used to pay someone to mow his lawn so he had time to go to the gym.

@timewind3870 17 дней назад

@stusue9733 🤣probably because mowing a lawn would be less appalling on Instagram than using treadmill

@almightyhydra 17 дней назад

Well yea, when the gym is 10km away

@God__Emperor_ 17 дней назад

It's part of people's workouts. How is this a hard thing to understand? When I was a gym rat I would do an hour of cardio before hitting the weights. Screw driving home to run outside, I'm done once leaving.

@stusue9733 17 дней назад

@@God__Emperor_ And to think you could have got an hour of cardio with a mower in front of you.

@xperience-evolution 17 дней назад

The unfortunate thing Louis is that the Mass is already accepting these kind of things. And it is already normal for many kids to pay a subscription for everything. They don't know anymore what ownership means.

@DukiWeezi 17 дней назад

Pretty soon well have to pay xtra to watch Louis

@h8tu 17 дней назад

Hi Louis I took your advice and went outside. It did in fact kill me. Afterlife isn’t much better. There is an activation and subscription fee.

@fokker1138 17 дней назад

Treadmills are only really useful for when inclement weather prevents you for going outside and this is for people who already have the habit/consistency to go running/walking regularly already.

@darrennew8211 17 дней назад

It's also handy if you want to do something other than stare at the same scenery outside your house you've seen 3000 times while you're exercising.

@wolfie54321 17 дней назад

Also people with allergies for a reasonably large chunk of the year.

@bradhaines3142 17 дней назад

or for anyone in the south where going outside can make you stroke out. you know, about half of the US

@fokker1138 17 дней назад

@@bradhaines3142 I live in a desert and grew up in 90%+ humidity 100 F summers and have and still run. Most humans aren't that fragile.

@lynnlablanc 17 дней назад

We still can disagree with our pockets. Stop buying thinks like that. Stop buying TV sets that bricks if you don't agree new terms after the sale. Stop buying cars/treadmills/anything that have features you cannot use if you don't pay more after the sale. If companies get away with it, they will continue and the problem will worsen. If sales and profits go downhill then, and only then, companies will adjust their methods. Or close.

@karintippett753 17 дней назад

The used treadmill I purchased 3 years ago was a clothes rack until December 31st of last year, then I walked an hour a day until it was nice enough outside to go outside. My treadmill does not connect to the internet at all.

@Mostly_Roblox 17 дней назад

Get here in 22 seconds, probably a new record for me

@ukar69 17 дней назад

I always thought Peloton was a company that hated its customers and saw them as a cash cow. Just been out for a brisk walk in the countryside, which costs zero.

@GreybushGamer 17 дней назад

I don't really care that I'm getting "effed" by a brand I never would have purchased from anyway. I'm only here for the fishies.

@4bSix86f61 17 дней назад

I'm here for the inspiring rant of whether or not to download a treadmill.

@Matt_The_Hugenot 17 дней назад

If they were really interested in customer's 'on boarding experience', I hate that phrase, it would be an offer not a compulsory fee. Half those buying second hand will simply want second one or to replace their broken machine. The net effect will be to drive down resale prices which means owners will be less likely to upgrade so Peleton are shooting themselves in the foot.

@BladeoftheImmortal2005 17 дней назад

It's capitalism. Infinite growth doesn't exist. Eventually you'll lose. It's not an if, but when.

@TheThreatenedSwan 17 дней назад

Sure bud

@darrennew8211 17 дней назад

Capitalism doesn't need infinite growth. Debt-based monetary systems do, as do mutual funds.

@BladeoftheImmortal2005 17 дней назад

@@TheThreatenedSwan thanks

@anthony.spencer 17 дней назад

why is it that EVERY TIME i hear, "welcome to how you're getting f'd" I bust out laughing?

@somethingfunnyyt 17 дней назад

I think some well maintained koi fish are hacking into your videos

@Samael1113 17 дней назад

This is fallout from the windfall they got in 2020 - 2022. Everyone staying inside and avoiding public was investing in home workout equipment. You look at the financials from those years and you'll see massive Net Gains. I believe they weren't able to produce their bikes fast enough to meet demand. 2 years later, things stabilized and return to a more normal market, and people are looking to get rid of clutter and shit they don't use... that bike or treadmill whose advertisements were calling them fat? First to go. Company was selling infinite growth to investors, and probably is still attempting to do so, rather than preparing for the inevitable crash in demand, so they are looking to scrape wherever they can to please investors and make it seem like they are still growing and competent than they are. You know, as opposed to operating with the understanding that the pandemic years were not permanent and they should proceed in a manner to remain stable when the spike drops back to pre-pandemic levels. Thanks exploitative late-stage capitalism! Yeah, a lot of bullshit out there.

@slimee8841 17 дней назад

WHY THE F DOES A TREADMILL CONNECT TO THE INTERNET WHY DO YOU NEED THE INTERNET TO WALK GOD GAVE YOU LEGS NOT A CLOUD SUBSCRIPTION FFS

@roderickcortez138 17 дней назад

They day is coming when dildos need an internet connection and subscription fees.

@bobdobalina8910 17 дней назад

TALk about getting HEFFED My wife just took her GM SUV Traverse into the dealership. It was have transmission "issues", it is just past the warranty, bought BRAND NEW, has less than 90 000k (56 000miles). Dealer changes the fluid, does a few other things. $1200 later. BUT One of the charges was $370 for a Computer "Update" for the Transmission, that if she didn't get it, would cause continued Transmission "issues' up to and including FAILURE. How's that for getting HEFFED. So you do NOT have a "choice". You need to get it in order to fix/solve the issues from a faulty glitch or bad code. You don't get it, and your transmission will continue to have "issues" right up until FAILURE at a most inopportune time. Last time I checked, Apple, Samsung and many other manufacturers do NOT charge for updates and or patches.

@Secret_Pickle 17 дней назад

fishy fishy fishy fishy

@dissimulii 17 дней назад

i been using "piss in the ocean" for like decade now, i derived it from "it's fuck all on a big ship". i'm not saying i coined it, but i thought of it myself and i'm happy to hear others with the same train of thought or something.

@gta4everrr 14 дней назад

I love running outside. I can count on one hand the number of times I've run on a treadmill, but go running outside every morning. I like that quote, "Cardio, my friends, is free. It's everywhere."

@adink6486 16 дней назад

My co-worker couldnt use this 3k LG tv over the weekend. Couldn't connect something. He called up his buddy to help him take down the TV to diagnose and possibly ship it back for repair. He finally called up LG and the LG representative walked him through the setup and said he has to agree to the new ToS to use his 3k 1 year old TV.

@drizitgaming 17 дней назад

Sounds like Tesla and turning off FSD and life time free supercharging for second hand owners of cars that came with both.

@Loggus66 16 дней назад

Hey L. I bought a treadmill while I was hired full remote after the covid. I ended up working from 12 to 23 and so it definitely helped to not go insane. Pay was good, the job was soul crushing, can't recommend.

@sarenab7856 10 дней назад

Louis I think the exception to how useful a treadmill is is places that are LITERAL HELL like southern Nevada where you can’t even walk across your yard in the summer without feeling like you’re going to die, let alone go running. Pray for me lmao it’s September and still over 100