The Wyze Cam v3 is finally available for purchase on a short launch day website snafu, but the $ 20 launch price the company told us during our review rather stretched out – at least not as one of us thought. Right now, the only way to buy the camera is with a Cam Plus subscription, which can cost you almost twice as much, depending on how you do it. And when sales later widen, it’s still will not cost $ 20.
Currently, there are two ways to buy the Wyze Cam v3. Cam Plus subscribers who are already paying for a subscription can pick one up for $ 20 (as usual $ 5 for shipping). Everyone else will have to pay $ 35 (plus $ 5 for shipping) for a Wise Cam v3 plus one year Cam Plus, or you will have to sign up for Cam Plus separately ($ 2 per month or $ 15 per year) and qualify. $ 20 prices. Additional cameras above the $ 35 price only cost $ 20, so you can add one $ 35 camera to your cart and then load the $ 20 versions, and the Wyze Cam v3 does not need Cam Plus to work, so you can buy one for a friend or cancel your subscription after purchase.
If you think you can bypass the Cam Plus requirement by purchasing another Wyze product with a Cam Plus trial, we are told by the company that it will not work.
The product entry originally and misleadingly claims that the price of $ 35 includes free shipping, but we are told that it was a ‘typo’.
Wise claims that the adjusted price pricing is due to the security of components and that things will change when the stock is level. But even then, we are told that non-Plus subscribers will not get the camera at the original $ 20 price the company claimed last year. The stabilized price for non-subscribers will be $ 24 (again, plus $ 5 shipping – do you see a trend?), But it will remain $ 20 for Cam Plus subscribers. This is even more frustrating when you consider that pre-orders manage to get the right price of $ 20 without being Cam Plus subscribers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlcEjEZjUcE
Jump to 0:41 for Wyze’s original claim that prices would not change.
In short, Wyze’s original claim that the new camera would not increase prices over the previous version, which fetched a fixed amount of $ 20 without the necessary subscriptions. Customers currently pay more based on the mandatory costs of Cam Plus, or they later pay more at the higher $ 24 price than non-Cam Plus. But whatever, everyone pays more than the $ 20 that the company originally claimed last year, and more than the $ 20 people paid during the original pre-order period.
Aside from that, I was on the deck uploading at least five of these for my new home, and although I totally pay fines, given the increased costs and ongoing deficits, I am upset about the company’s efforts to obscure this change. These overly complicated prices, coupled with a lack of adequate communication regarding price changes, set me apart. Instead of rewarding this kind of behavior, I think I will endure another product – ideally with better assistant integration.
Wyze shoots videos showing $ 20 Cam v3 price
Wyze tells us that its videos and ads are not listed, like the one below, which previously indicated that the price of the Wyze Cam v3 would be the same as the v2.
While rising prices due to silicon shortage make sense because it is actually something, the company handled the launch of Cam v3 poorly. In his email to customers apologizing for the shortcomings and exclusivity of Cam Plus, the price increase is not mentioned, nor is the embargo material it shared regarding the announcement to places like ours, nor the current product list. Add to that the new overly complicated pricing scheme that encourages customers to take out a subscription, and Wyze’s failure to properly ease the pricing is misleading – which is now further exacerbated by attempts to refer to the original claims in the previous remove videos.