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ShinTakuya | on: Elevated Errors for Opus 5
I think it's not out of bounds to expect a company to go a little further to compensate for an issue. A prorated 1 hour refund doesn't reflect the reality that maybe that hour was more important to the customer because it was their only free time in the week. A free week is way too much but a free day sounds appropriate.
londons_explore | parent
If there is a hole in the street and you fall down it, you wouldn't expect a refund just for the 1 second it would have taken you to drive over that hole.

Instead you should be compensated for your losses - the time and money it took you to repair that tyre.

Same with a web service. If I pay for 24 * 7 service and it's not working when I go to use it, I want compensation for my time and effort resolving the matter.

For some that'll be small - eg. Searching Google instead, taking 30 seconds. For others it'll be a big headache.

But downtime of 1 hour is almost certainly more costly for the consumer than 1/30/24 * subscription price.

solenoid0937 | root | parent
Yeah, no, that's not how any of this works. This is the definition of inflated self importance!

Your contract doesn't have an SLA. If you are important enough, you can certainly negotiate one - and it will be far more expensive than your prosumer subscription.

And even then you will not get a 1:168 or 1:720 SLA like you are expecting - that's simply ludicrous and totally out of touch with every reality. Even if you were a lucrative enterprise customer (which you are not) they'd tell you to get lost.

> If there is a hole in the street and you fall down it, you wouldn't expect a refund just for the 1 second

Actually, you wouldn't get a refund at all unless you suffer damage or injury, which is an high bar to prove in court and a totally separate ball game.

1123581321 | root | parent
You do see that ratio in, for example, business Internet service. You’ll get a month’s credit immediately upon asking if they can also see the brief outage. Even typically awful Comcast was good about this. However, as you note, in exchange, you’ve probably signed a two or three year agreement with them and you’d owe the balance if you canceled early.