When you buy a new cell phone, they give you a new pretty cell phone for cheap, waive activation fees and treat you too all this positive welcome attention. Then once your in contract, it is deal with it sucker or pay a huge cancellation fee. When you order new cable service, they have these "free service" offers for the first fee months, and then once that is done, you call and ask about a ad you saw and it is "sorry, but that is only for NEW customers." This type of behavior is so common in our world, and it reminds me so much of how people are brought into religions too. When we had a new person, we all made a point to make them feel wanted. We made sure they came to gettogethers to get to know people. We gave them special encouragement when they gave talks, or made comments. We basically built them up to feel great. Then once they were baptized, it was just like the cell phone companies and cable companies, when they comment that they feel people changed and things are not the way they remembered. "Were sorry, that is only for new people."
When you call a cell phone company or cable company, and say you want to cancel. They transfer you to a retention department that tries to give you special offers to stay. If you stay, you will be given a "sort of better" deal then you had before, but enough to make you not want to go through the hassle of finding another company. When your a Witness and you call the elders and say something like "I am discouraged" or "I have doubts, " they too will put some of that old fashion beginner attention on you. You will get a brother or sister assigned to you (depending on your sex), to invite you out in service, offer to take you to meetings and so on. Yet much like those special offers from cell phones and cable companies, they too will run out and before you know it, your back to that same old unhappy plan you were on before and trying to figure out what to do.
So you call again, and they offer something more and it is not what you had before as they have to try something new and in many cases they have a policy of "you can not keep putting some one on the same deal, as they in time need to pay the normal prices." So you call the elders later, after the temp fake love went away. They put you on the list of whiners and put together some half ass support for you, thinking to themselves that you are way to much work. In time, you realize that you have either got to cancel the service or deal with it the way it is. If you "deal with it the way it is", you are now what is defined as a solid customer base. Basically, they know you will pay each month and not cost much more then the bill they print for you. You are a good income for them. If you cancel, you are what is considered "acceptable lose", they basically feel they did what they could to save you and now that you leave, they know they will just get someone else (or multi-someone else's) to replace you. You are not breaking any business down, and you are not really going to be missed.
Religion is a business, you are either a customer base or acceptable loss. Nothing else! Ever thought about it that way?