Wyze Cam v3 is finally available for purchase after a short launch day on the site, but the $ 20 launch price that the company informed us during our review does not quite it worked – at least, not in the way that any of us thought it would be. At the moment, the only way to buy the camera is with a Cam Plus subscription, which can cost almost double, depending on how you do it. And when sales open later, still it won’t be $ 20.
There are currently two ways to purchase Wyze Cam v3. Cam Plus subscribers who are already paying for a subscription can get one for $ 20 (plus $ 5 for shipping, as usual). All others will need to pay $ 35 (plus $ 5 for shipping) for a Wyze Cam v3 plus a year of Cam Plus, or you will need to subscribe to Cam Plus separately ($ 2 per month or $ 15 per year) and qualify for it Price of $ 20. Additional cameras beyond the $ 35 price will only cost $ 20, so you can add a $ 35 camera to your cart and load the $ 20 versions, and Wyze Cam v3 does not need Cam Plus to work. , then you can buy one for a friend or cancel your subscription after purchase.
If you think you can get around the Cam Plus requirement by purchasing another Wyze product with a trial version of Cam Plus, the company told us that it wouldn’t work.
The product list originally and misleadingly stated that the $ 35 price included free shipping, but we were told it was a “typo.”
Wyze says that this adjusted price is due to component safety issues and that things will change when the stock runs out. But even so, we are told that non-subscribers to Plus will not get the camera for the original $ 20 price that the company claimed last year. The stabilized price for non-subscribers will be $ 24 (again, plus $ 5 shipping – see a trend?), Although it remains $ 20 for Cam Plus subscribers. This is even more frustrating when you consider that the pre-sales achieved the real price of $ 20 without being a subscriber to Cam Plus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlcEjEZjUcE
Skip to 0:41 for Wyze’s original statement that the price would not change.
In short, Wyze’s original claims that the new camera would not increase prices compared to the previous version, which cost $ 20 without any subscription required, are bullshit. Customers pay more now due to the mandatory cost of Cam Plus or pay more later with the highest price of $ 24 non-Cam Plus. But no matter what, everyone pays more than the $ 20 that the company originally claimed last year and more than the $ 20 that people paid during the original pre-sale period.
As an aside, I was on deck to pick up probably five of these for my new home, and while I am totally well paying more due to rising costs and continued scarcity, I am upset by the company’s efforts to overshadow this change. This overly complex price, combined with the lack of sufficient communication about price changes, made me sketch. Instead of rewarding this type of behavior, I think I will wait for another product – preferably with better integration with the Assistant.
Wyze removes videos that indicated the $ 20 price of Cam v3
Wyze tells us that he is removing the list of his videos and ads, like the one below, which indicated that the price of Wyze Cam v3 would be the same as v2.
Although the rise in prices due to the scarcity of silicon makes sense, because that is really one thing, the company handled the launch of Cam v3 badly. Your email to customers, apologizing for the scarcity and exclusivity Cam Plus, makes no mention of the price increase, neither the embargoed materials you shared about the ad in places like ours, nor the current product list. Add to that the overly complicated new pricing scheme that leads customers to purchase a subscription, and Wyze’s failure to properly illuminate its price changes bordering on deception – now compounded by its attempts to remove references to its original claims in its videos previous ones.