10-17-19, 08:00 AM | |
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: I love that dirty water...
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I heard from CS. Here is their response:
Thank you for connecting with us regarding your experience with the new Barre3 Online website. We appreciate you taking the time to write this feedback and I want you to know that your voice is heard. Please know that we made these adjustments to our online platform based off feedback we received in order for us to better support your journey to be balanced in body and empowered from within. We know that change can be hard but we are hoping you find these website updates supportive of your barre3 practice. You are correct, while we were renovating our site, we removed older workout videos that we feel are no longer a proper representation of our core values, practices or approved by our training team. The reason behind this is that our workouts are always evolving with science. Our class and approved choreography/postures evolve as our team of instructors and researchers test and approve movements that better guide you towards strength and balance. We want to stand behind 100% of the videos published which is why we removed videos that don’t best represent our most current Barre3 evolved class. I understand the disappointment in not being able to access the older videos that you have become accustomed to however I want you to know that we are constantly filming and are planning on publishing even more videos than ever before in the upcoming year. In regards to our recipes, these are not lost indefinitely, however, we will not be pointing you in the direction of our B3 kitchen in our new experience. At Barre3, we believe that you are your own best teacher and since each person's nutrition philosophy and needs are unique to the individual, we’ve decided to leave our barre3 kitchen off our new home page and will no longer be creating new recipes. I am happy that you’ve found success with our recipes, here is a direct link to all of them that you know and love, https://blog.barre3.com/recipes/. We so appreciate your patience and understanding as we make these changes and evolve, I sincerely hope that we can continue to support each other and grow together. As you use our new website more, I hope you discover how the features enhance and support your barre3 journey. Please let me know if you have any questions or if I can offer any further support. I am here for you! |
10-17-19, 09:06 AM | ||
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Boston
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10-17-19, 09:27 AM | |
Join Date: May 2006
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They clearly had so much confidence in their new platform that they disengaged the cancel button. As you have proven, people will go the extra distance to leave when services drop and prices keep rising. All the flowery language in the world won't salvage bad business practices. Greed has a stench that doesn't easily cover. They should be very careful as the competition is fierce these days.
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10-17-19, 09:45 AM | ||
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: I love that dirty water...
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Anyway, I did one of the remaining slightly older workouts this morning and I LOVED it, so it did remind me of why I love barre3! I'm suppose I can live on those until it runs out. I try to limit my consumption of cheese. |
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10-17-19, 11:26 AM | ||
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Colorado
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I bet they just decided recipes aren't their core competency and they didn't want to invest in them anymore. If so, a better tactic would've been to just say that, and leave the existing recipes on the site for people who enjoy and use them. They could always add a disclaimer saying "people have different ways of eating, these recipes may suit you or not" if they're concerned about that.
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10-17-19, 01:30 PM | ||
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: I love that dirty water...
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IMO, barre3's strength lay in what they *didn't* say--no 'think of how good you're going to look in a bathing suit'-type stuff. No talk of weight loss, how many calories you'll burn, etc. But now by drawing so much attention to how 'revolutionary' they are in this aspect, it feels inauthentic... like it's some kind of sales gimmick. I don't think they appreciate how jarring it is for a customer to log on one morning to find the amount of content (for which we pay handsomely) DRASTICALLY reduced. If they really feel like the older workouts were a threat to the integrity of their brand, fine. But TELL us about it. Explain why you think you need to take them down. 'These days, we're doing X instead of Y. We read the following studies, and we've noticed in our studio teaching that our clients are having better outcomes' or whatever. I just feel like they're treating us like children ('we know change is hard'), yet they're telling us 'we are our own best teacher.' We're also not stupid. We can see when they are giving us less for the same price. |
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10-17-19, 01:31 PM | ||
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: I love that dirty water...
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10-17-19, 01:58 PM | ||
Join Date: Jun 2009
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And they haven’t had any new recipes in a very long time, so I wasn’t surprised about that part. There have been some articles about changes they made because of “science”, like heavier weights, not lifting weight above shoulder level, things like that. But then the actual workouts never seem radically different. But, no more weekly workout? That’s a deal killer. Way back when, they had only monthly workouts, but it cost much less. I have a lot of months left on an annual, so I hope they will quickly add some longer workouts. |
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