Because.
Cheap.
The body of your deal is too short. You need at least 10 words.
CamelCamelCamel.
$100/year
What a joke
RIP everyone trying to flog their JB ring for $100+ on Marketplace
The smart ones got the full $150 back 😉
Yes, we did 😁
Can you please share the smartness around..help fellow Ozbargainers !! 😁
Can you return them?
YMMV, unsure what the success rate is.
Does anyone know if there are any better alternative options available in the market? Thanks
I dont know if better but I have a Tapo D230 which I really like. Long battery life and meets our needs.
Pretty much everything else, reolink, eufy, tapo, etc.
Chiming in (haha) with the suggestion of the Tapo D230 too. No sub needed. Records onto an SD card hub situated within the home. Battery powered if that's what you prefer.
Thanks for all of your advice.
I'm waiting for Tapo Bell. Might have some better price next week @ Amazon.
Thanks for the heads-up
Try Eufy
how does this compare to Aqara G4/G410
requires subscription from $50 - $300 per year.
dont know why you'd buy this when theres plenty of others with SD Cards and $0 subscription.
Why do people pay $15 for a piece of banana bread and a coffee at a semi trendy Cafe? A total waste. Actually, what comes to mind….my sister married a millionaire builder and she used the $15 banana bread and coffee. Mainly to sit down at the front of a fancy Coffee shop on Campbell Parade Bondi and it took her around 2 years but yea, her now husband saw her and now they are married with 4 kids and she lives in a bloody $7 million house in South Coogee. (Yea, I am jealous because as a dude, I can't sit down at a coffee shop and become a millionaire eating an overpriced banana bread and sipping coffee) So where was I, errr never mind don't take my advice, a $15 banana bread and coffee can sometimes pay off.
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errr never mind don't take my advice
Yes
Ring hardware is deliberately priced low to attract unwitting customers into their ecosystem, but the most useful features are locked behind monthly subscriptions and will end up costing massive amounts.
I would strongly recommend spending extra money to get a video doorbell that doesn't lock most of its features. Eufy, TP-Link and Reolink all offer products with similar feature sets, but your video footage is stored locally and privately, and the total cost of ownership will be lower after 18 months.
I wonder why people haven't hacked these devices with custom firmware.
My guess is that most people who buy Ring hardware aren't sufficiently clued in to know it's possible, or where to start with doing it.
And the people who know about Ring firmware hacks are also very likely to be the kind of people who buy alternative products that support open ecosystems.
If anyone is interested, is worth the extra to buy a battery version and a spare battery, takes forever to charge so you will not have a doorbell or camera during charging, can change a battery in moments, recharge at own convenience and have minimal time without doorbell and camera
depends how much you care about it.
charges overnight, no drama.
if you must have uninterrupted constant monitoring, yeah buy another battery
I have sun coming and hitting my ring for 2hrs in the evening and I could find a solar panel that goes around the ring door bell that charges.
https://ring.com/au/en/products/solar-charger-for-battery-do…
may be once a year in winter I may need to re-charge
Alternatively, wire it up with a solar panel
Maybe use sunscreen if sun hitting your ring for 2hrs 😆, Yeah Solar is another option, I use 1 on another ring cam
![[Prime] Ring Battery Video Doorbell $75 Delivered @ Amazon AU](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/35/926435.jpg?h=030c22a6)
Any deal on the subscription