Ring Doorbell Subscription - Change your Country to Get Cheaper Subscription Cost

flickr on 12/07/2025 - 13:57
Last edited 12/07/2025 - 13:58

A few days ago, I was charged $49.99 USD (which is roughly $75 AUD) for my Ring Doorbell Basic subscription. Out of curiosity, I checked the Australian Ring website and noticed that the same subscription costs only $49.95 AUD - significantly cheaper!

I jumped on a chat with a Ring support agent and asked if they could change the billing currency on my account. Interestingly, the agent asked, "Which currency would you like to be charged in?" That got me thinking… could we actually switch to another country’s plan to get a better deal?

After a quick Google search, I stumbled upon thread in Reddit , which suggests that in Japan, the same plan costs around 3,500 Yen - about $36 AUD.

Quick chat with the agent, 10 mins later I was able to subscribe using Japanese Yen which saving me close to $40 compared to paying with USD which was the standard before Ring offers different currencies.

Has anyone here successfully switched to another country’s Ring subscription to get a cheaper rate? Would love to hear your experience!

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  • 30year old Camry on 12/07/2025 - 14:08
    +6

    Or use a different brand of camera where you can store your videos on your own hardware and pay $0 per year.

    • AusRetro on 12/07/2025 - 14:19
      +2

      That's not an option for someone that doesn't want to maintain that. There's no way I'd want to set up and troubleshoot this for friends or family

      • tenpercent on 12/07/2025 - 14:37
        +3

        There's no way I'd want to set up a Ring doorbell or other privacy destroying spyware device for my friends or family.

        • johninmelb on 13/07/2025 - 09:39
          +1

          Since it is only showing who is outside your house, how is this privacy destroying? Only asking because I have been considering buying one of these and I cannot see any privacy implications other than hopefully identifying any undesirable malefactors prowling around outside. If you wanted to prowl around outside my place, YOUR privacy concerns would be way down the list of my priorities. Petty crims will never have privacy rights in my book.

          • tenpercent on 13/07/2025 - 10:18

            @johninmelb: I'd be more concerned about would-be burglers hacking into the camera/microphone/doorbell to remotely ascertain yours and your family's routines and to check when the place is empty and ripe for burgling.

            Or about how all the data that can be collected may be used: your routines, who visits your house, how frequently, which cars drive past your house and how frequently, who walks past your house and how frequently. Then there's the ability to listen in and all the data that can be collected that way. All that data is valuable.

            Then there's all the privacy issues with Amazon Sidewalk (basically all those heavily discounted Amazon devices, echo, ring doorbells, etc talk to all other Amazon devices in their vicinity and use yours and your neighbours' and their neighbours' wifi to form a massive global mesh network that will supercharge all that surveillance and data collection.

            • boomramada on 13/07/2025 - 13:49

              @tenpercent: Third party cameras would be more easy to hack than google or Ring.

      • 87percent on 12/07/2025 - 15:23
        +2

        Reolink has free cloud storage

        The Reolink Cloud Basic Plan offers 7 days of cloud storage for motion-triggered event recordings, but it requires manual renewal each month. This plan is free to use, but unlike higher-tier plans, it doesn't auto-renew. You need to manually renew it each month to continue using it, which can be done through the Reolink app or website, according to Reolink Support

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