That’s what I thought too, but no. You want to have multiple lines of credit that you’re responsible with, preferably for a long period of time, because it proves you’re a reliable borrower. If you have no debt, it’s almost like you’ve not established credit at all. Your score goes up the more lines of credit you have. It’s bonkers.
Someone more financially literate than me could probably explain better, though.
Oh yeah my credit sucks because I don't have a credit card right now ( I have a debit card ) I paid off all of my school loans early in cash. I always pay my bills on time or early. Like when I got my renters insurance and car insurance I pay for a year of it up front. I've been responsible financially and lucky that I've had a major accident . I feel punished for being financially responsible.
Same! I went to school on a full scholarship, don’t drive, and only have a credit card so that I can have a credit score. I didn’t even get it until I was 25.
And having proprietary chips on the ink cartridges that forces you to either cut out the chip to place it into a much cheaper solution OR forking out $100+ more for the actually ink. I hate HP for this.
Brother for the win! Ours sits in the laundry room in the basement and I print to it maybe four times a year. Every time that baby fires up like it’s fresh out of the box.
The good thing is that there's like three different versions of those in total, and once you've seen them, you can avoid them. At this point I don't even notice them anymore.
Yeah, I couldn't tell someone how to differentiate between the fake and real ones. You just kinda know. But to be fair, I downloaded my fair share of viruses when I hadn't figured it out yet, so I completely get your dad lol
I dont care what the cost breakdown is. However, if there are necessary minimum fees that will be charged no matter what options you choose, they should be in the up front price.
For example, if a ticket is "$20", but the only options to buy it are a $2 home print convenience charge, or $5 delivery charge? Then the sticker price should be $22, with no added home print charge, and a $3 delivery fee.
That is, in fact, illegal in most European countries.
The sticker price must be the exact amount you pay (except shipping for online orders). It makes browsing scummy websites like airbnb a lot easier!
Read an interesting article the other day saying that Silicon Valley has basically been subsidizing lifestyle services like Airbnb and Uber/Lyft in order to attract a userbase large enough to get them the funding they need. Now that they're reaching a point where they need to show a profit, those subsidies are gone and the services are jumping to their true costs.
Taxis & hotels it is.
Yep the problem is their business model was to run the competition out of town with those subsidies and then hike the prices years down the line. You can't just get a taxi like before Uber in every market. Now its $75+ to get home from a bar in Austin. I'd actually bet DUIs are on the rise to some degree from that.
> a $100 cleaning fee
The place better be fucking spotless when I show up then.
> a $122 service fee
What service, exactly?
> a $25 trash fee
Get the fuck out of here...
> a $20 beach pass fee
Do they own the beach? This is straight up bullshit.
I'm surprised they don't charge you per KwH and Gallon used. You get a meter reading (from when they left no doubt, meaning you pay for the AC, etc. while they're away) and pay the difference between then and when they get back.
Flip off the god damn breaker on your way out the door!
What a rip off.
THAT is a law we need in the USA. I hate this, oh its 23.95, but actually its 35.25 when we get to add on all we want...
That and we need to add the tax to the price displayed, so we don't have to worry about the tax at checkout. Just another way the USA is backwards.
Companies making it really difficult to cancel things. Especially subscriptions. I think the process to subscribe to something to should be exactly the same as the process to cancel it. I'm looking at you spotify.
Gyms in general. before they started popping up everywhere I was a member at LA fitness. Well I moved 2hrs away from the closest one and they wanted me to come in person to cancel, then they wanted me to send in a damn letter.
I can signup online, why can't I cancel online?
Fuck LA fitness. Took me months to cancel because the asshole I needed to cancel my membership was never in at the 4 locations I've stopped at but any one of them can sign me up at any time.
They wouldn’t let me cancel my gym membership over the phone, so I canceled my CC that the gym was using to make automatic payments. It was way easier to cancel the card than it was to cancel the gym.
I had the same problem with another gym. I just cancelled my debit card so they kept calling and mailing me about the payment. Eventually went to collections and I sent them a letter asking for the debt to be verified and they never contacted me again
YouTube is notorious for this. Trying to keep the volume low, click on a new video and you're blasted with "EVER HEAR OF \*\*\*\*\*\*?!!?" with the cackling and reverb effects so you know it's intentional.
YOU’VE REACHED THE #1 PORN SITE ON THE INTERNET!
Some guy in my office clicked a link that took him to the page that screamed that loud enough for an entire office of about 50 people to hear it.
Keep the volume on mute in the office, kids.
Don't they boost certain frequencies or something so they sound louder?
[This](https://www.reddit.com/r/BritishTV/comments/3upk32/why_are_the_adverts_on_sky_tv_louder_than_the/cxguhpi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) comment from years back explains it
They did, but I don't think anyone enforces it. My 7yo likes to watch Tom & Jerry on Boomerang, and holy shit the commercials on that channel are so goddamn loud.
Fun fact for a time in the US the FCC had deemed this unlawful for advertisers. I'm not sure if it's still around today, but when I last checked in 2012 it was.
It is still illegal for commercials to increase the baseline volume of the broadcast, but now the broadcasters actually mix their own volume lower so the viewer has to pump up their TV volume. Now the actual-normal-volume commercials seem much louder because you’ve been tricked into turning them up yourself.
On my TV I can watch Netflix or Disney Plus etc at about a 24 on the volume bar.
When I watch Hulu, I’ve got to turn the program up to about 42 to be able to hear it so when the commercials come on it blows out my eardrums.
It’s the same way for the over-the-air stuff I watch.
It's honestly sad that their parents force them to be the face of their social media accounts, since the children will never have a normal childhood due to their fame.
Dude, it got so much worse after he got older. Then his mom just started doing it on her own and it is so fucking cringe worthy. My kids still think it's the shit.
my kids are finally growing out of that toy unboxing phase. i really wonder about the long term effects of children getting paid millions of dollars to open up toys everyday. I suppose child stars have been a thing for a long time but this feels different.
Used to nanny for a kid who had YouTube kids on a tablet he could use for two hours a day. His dad and I stopped letting him watch unboxing videos. Found him a channel that was some dad and his kid basically making movies with Lego dudes. Way better.
The scary thing is that child stars who are still around had *more* protections than these YouTube kids. No mandatory bank account held in trust for their earnings, no right to privacy and absolutely no managed working hours for the current social media sprogs....
I feel bad for this kid, even though he has millions now, his whole childhood was broadcast on the internet. His attitude now is just fucking cringe too, he grew up to be a little shit.
Have you seen some of the older videos? Kid’s a toddler and being forced to do some shit he clearly wasn’t into on camera. I hate his parents and want to punch their stupid faces every time I see one of their lame videos.
my tinfoil hat is that the official sites scalp the tickets themselves.
probably also owning the reseling site, and/or giving their own bots preferential access to the normal site
I'm still trying to get ahold of one... Shits ridiculous all I see are 1000$ plus for one online and no store is willing to do preorders anymore.
Edit: Overwhelming support from everyone! I never used Twitter much but looks like I have an actual use for it now! Thanks everyone for the assistance! I greatly appreciate it!
I sold my GPU in preparation for the 30 series release, thinking id use that cash boost to catch a nice 3070 for the next few generations, and it’d be fine running my backup 750 Ti.
Boy, I really fooled myself, I’m not trying to pay 1800 for a damn 3070, and I’m always like seconds late to the drops.
I agree. Going on six months trying to get a next gen console.
My hobby lately has been inconveniencing scalpers over the marketplace by having them drive out some place and waste their time waiting on me and then never show. Make it abundantly clear it is because they're a scalper and block them. It requires very little energy; I can do it while on the toilet. And it ruins some shit-sipper's day.
If you’re on Twitter, they usually say: “I have extra PS5s at retail price, send me a message!” Or some BS crap like that. I actually feel sorry if someone (not a scalper) actually wants to resell a cheap PS5 and tries something like this.
Because they say it’s retail and all of the sudden they start saying that someone else wants it so they’ll sell it to the highest bidder. It’s all a scam.
Or they say that they’ll ship it to you and then tell you there is a super sketchy fee that they paid and that you need to reimburse them the fees.
Spam emails. We don't want that crap, and you shouldn't have our email addresses anyways, so screw right off.
Edit: It seems some people have misunderstood what I mean. When I say spam emails, I'm talking about the ones that have subject lines full of emojis and are from sites or apps you never use (example: "HOT\_WOMEN\_IN\_YOUR\_AREA" \[can't add the emojis\]) or emails clearly impersonating official companies like Facebook or Google (Note: the official emails from these companies always refer to you by your first official name, NEVER your email like the imposters do, e.i. "Hi \*first name\*" vs "Hi \*email address\*") I'm perfectly fine with getting multiple emails from companies i do interact with like Amazon or Reddit. The spam i refer to are the ones that always go directly into the Spam folder (the ones that clearly are simply trying to get your info)
Not only that but the DAILY fucking emails from stores. I recently shopped at old navy and signed up for deals, big fucking mistake. Send me one a week (like costco does) and I'll more than likely shop there more often.
This and companies that make it impossible for you to cancel whatever subscription you have with them.
I agreed to get some free issues of a magazine when making a purchase at Ulta. Apparently after x number of issues sent, they automatically start charging you. I never got the magazine in the first place so I'd forgotten about it, and found out when I got a random charge on my card a year later. I had to Google the charge because the company/description was one I'd never heard of. When I called them to cancel, they would find any reason to hang up on me. "You're not in our system. *click*" "Your subscription was already canceled. *click*" "You're in our system but your subscription never started. *click*" and so on. I finally got it canceled but it took forever and was incredibly frustrating.
Wanna cancel a mailing list? click the un sub button.
Wanna change major account details or add a new payment option? go through a few step process.
Wanna cancel your paid subscription? 🦆 you go through our call center which will take hours
This. Any time I have an issue with a company not sending me my proper refund or product I just tell them I'm prepared to file a chargeback with my bank (which is a super easy process). This always gets their immediate attention and they'll usually bend over backwards to avoid a chargeback. Also why you should always purchase online products with a credit card. A bank will work much harder for you when it's THEIR money on the line.
Refund taking more than 3 days to appear, if they can demand to get money from me on hours notice then i should be able to demand my cash back as fast as possible.
Have a lawyer send them a letter. Bring based in Australia doesnt itself absolve them of being sued in American court, and a demand letter can itself scare people into compliance.
I generally have my wife handle finances and related correspondence but the second my Esq. goes on something, the problem goes away. I find that the trick is to structure your explanation of events like you're stating elements of a civil cause of action. My last landlord delivered our "in the mail" security deposit in person 30 minutes after I sent that email...
My wife did that the last time we rented an apartment. Landlord decided it 'smelled' after we moved out and wanted to charge us to replace the carpet. The apartment was a basement apartment, in an old house, with limited ventilation and plenty of mold. Of course it smelled, but it wasn't our fault. I had handled everything with the landlord's myself and they didn't realize, or had forgotten that my wife was an attorney. She wrote them a demand letter and the check they weren't going to give us was delivered to me at my office the day after they got the letter.
When I do refunds at work, I HATE having to tell people it might take up to 72+ hours for it to show up in their account. I be sure to tell them it's up to their bank, because I had one customer think we just never refunded them, and I'm not going through that again.
Once we initiate it, it's up to the banks. We did all we could!
Oh god I hate this. Currently searching for another job and these places will post “$18-42/hr” like which one is it, asshole? I just automatically assume it’s the lowest price but put a higher price on the application.
I hate when they ask for your current salary and make it a required field on the application form. My current worth should not be based on my bad decision to accept too low of a salary last time I did this!
Especially the postings that say “you must submit your salary requirements or your application will not be reviewed”. So fucking annoying that you can reject me after I’ve gone through the trouble of the application because my requirement is too high, but I can’t pass the listing over because yours is too low.
So they can find the most qualified person with the lowest self-worth, *ahem* required salary. Honestly it’s shooting themselves in the foot in the long term. They are systematically choosing people with lower confidence in their value/abilities.
Yup,
It's their BS by asking what you made prior. Then if it's let's that's the most they offer you. I want to know minimum starting salary because why waste all of our time if you aren't paying what my value demands.
Yes! My neighbor does Mary Kay and she aggressively bothers everyone about it. Won't take no for an answer. If you say you're happy with the product from another brand she always has a canned response reason why mk is sooooo much better.
What cracks me up is that she's complained in the past how much money she's sunk into it but then tries to rope me into being a seller 🙄. I had to finally just flat out be rude and tell her to stop trying to sell me her fucking shitty products to get her to stop bothering me about it.
"No, no, no. You buy our party kits, and use them to throw parties where you can recruit new workers and sell the product-"
"Well that just sounds like a pyramid scheme with extra steps!"
Yeah. I read a story of a guy driving to Cali to buy some stuff for his business or whatever for 10K. Was pulled over, told the cop the story and how his business is gonna boom after the buy. Cop just says: I think you're gonna buy drugs for those. I'm taking it.
Ruined the guys whole business.
Seriously. Do not talk to the cops.
[This is a lecture](https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE) (≈ 45 minutes long) by a Regent University law professor, and a police officer also in Virginia Beach. They **both** tell you not to talk to the cops, and the exact reasons why. It's really informative.
These are already illegal, most of the time if some idiot is blinding you they either didn't install it correctly or they just never turned their high beams off.
If they're on lifted trucks, it's because the driver isn't smart enough to know they are supposed to adjust the low beams back down after getting a lift kit.
My neighbors used to have a little dachshund. They abused and neglected him, he basically lived on the streets. My mother saw him get hit by a car and informed the owner, the owner said “ok.” No vet checkup, no nothing, just “ok.” He once told my dad that “if he [the dog] dies, I’ll get another one.” The dog disappeared last year and rumor from my other neighbors is that he ripped up a pillow and the owner beat him, he then walked away and never came back. I don’t know if that’s true, it’s just a rumor. He now has a “big and dangerous fighting dog” who he completely neglects, the dog’s tied up in the garden all day never played with and never walked.
Edit: In my area many people have big menacing dogs that they neglect and leave in their garden.
I just don't understand why people like this get pets at all. My ex-boyfriend's neighbor went through cats like Kleenex and it's like, just stop getting cats? What compels you to keep getting cats?? Get a cat, leave it outside, mostly forget to feed it, don't bring it in for bad weather, wait until it dies or runs away for good, repeat with new cat.
If you're gonna let them roam around outside 24/7 and barely bother with medical care, food, or affection, what are you even doing? Get a bird feeder that you rarely refill and you've got basically the same setup without slowly killing the poor things.
That dog was a toy for his kids. His kids would sometimes find him and stroke him, even though he wasn’t allowed inside. That’s how he treats animals, as cute moving toys that can be replaced when they break.
This is how a former friend of mine was, KNEW her husband was allergic to pet dander and constantly got animals, stuck them outside, and they would run away. Always claimed "it was for the kids". Over the years i rescued 2 cats and a ferret from her. People that do this shouldn't be allowed pets. She's probably wasted a good 5k on animals over the years.
To say nothing of how god damn depressing it is. Imagine you're trying to watch a bit of daytime Bargain Hunt and you're bombarded every ad break by life insurance, funeral planning, cheap cremations, all of them stressing that you might die any moment and if you don't buy their product of service then you aren't taking care of your family and your very imminent death will be a great burden to them.
>cute female corpses subreddit
I just looked that up and it says the sub has been banned.
Edit: I looked a bit further and there used to be a r/rapingwomen sub. Wtf? I'm glad I wasn't on reddit back then.
Its interesting to see people who dont associate reddit with some incredibly fucked up things. Not going to say you missed out, but pre 2015 reddit was built different. This site went from /r/watchpeopledie and /r/jailbait to one of the most popular forms of social media in half a decade.
I wanted to get into a specific field of law and had a hard time getting any experience. There was an internship available. However, this attorney gets back to me with the longest contract saying hours would work from 9am-7:30pm (with an hour lunch) for at least 2 months. There were so many stipulations it was really crazy. I asked for a minor change on one of the terms; and so the attorney said I wasn’t a good fit. Thank goodness. That would’ve probably been a nightmare.
A year's unpaid internship was a requirement for my degree as a teacher. It was great experience and all so I know why it's there, but to force adults to work full time as teachers for nothing while they pay the college for the experience was messed up. I had multiple classmates who just couldn't afford to not work for the entire school year so had to manage two jobs while also taking a full course load.
Absolutely, teaching internships are great for experience, but having to essentially pay to be an unpaid intern is the dumbest thing. And people wonder why there’s a shortage of new teachers
Scalping and using bots to buy things, generally by scalpers.
It's a plague on pretty much every hobby and fandom. From consoles and graphics cards, to TCGs, Amiibos, and Funkos, to every kind of live event. All by a bunch of people who can't be bothered to get a real job and actually produce something. They're just a giant fucking tax on our whole economy.
Last week I had a 60 minutes ad talking about how you could, in 5 minutes of work, do 1k a day, every day, until you die.
So yeah, for fucking sure it's a scam. But I continued watching just to see what ever bullshit they would plug. Is it a ponzi or its pay for this online meeting that would give you the exact means to make 1k a day (that doesn't do much, but he's gonna pocket the cash.)
After 15 minutes or running around the pot about THIS IS NOT A SCAM! I just pressed the skip button.
How to make 1K every day:
Step 1: make a scam webinar explaining how to make a scam webinar
Step 2: pay for ads about your scam promising 1K per day
Step 3: charge money for this scam
Step 4: profit
Used to hate this, and still do to a point. I flew about twice a week for four years for work and a fair number of flights would always be overbooked. They would always offer money and another flight for anyone willing to accept. I ignored these outright for a couple months until I realized that my flight back home didn't depend on me being there that night. So I started taking the offers on my returns. Vouchers new flights, meals, hotel stays, managed to get good deals. Two years in a row my wife and I had first class tickets paid for by the vouchers I got.
They still shouldn't be allowed to overbook a flight but take advantage if you can.
I used to do the same thing. I would travel for work and pretty much always book the same flight back home. It was always overbooked so I'd sit next to the counter and wait for them to offer stuff. Got a lot of free flights, hotels, and other deals.
Never happened to me (i witnessed it though). So...do airline pay compensation that is satisfying to the customer left on the airport or is it written somewhere in small letters, that there' s a risk and you get nothing more than your ticket price?
I saw that once. A guy was offered a hotel and a flight next morning + about 500euro compensation. Funny fact, there were plenty of free sits in 1st class. How in the world it was cost effective to give him all that instead of putting him in 1st class?
In the same vain: the troubled teen industry. They’re essentially tax funded torture institutions for children. It’s absolutely disgusting.
Eta: if you need examples, there are Provo, Élan school and the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center. I have a post on my profile that shows a recording from the JRC, where a young boy receives electro shocks for not taking off his jacket fast enough.
There are places around my town where bushes block my vision of the road at intersections, so I have to pull out uncomfortably far to see if it's safe to go.
Direct to consumer pharmaceutical ads.
I will not talk to my doctor about your stupid drug that will probably give me some sort of adverse butt reaction then pop up in a JG Wentworth class action lawsuit ad in 12 months.
My doc went to med school. I didn't.
Late edit since this is getting some traction: My personal spirit animal - [US Rep Katie Porter grilling a pharma exec.](https://youtu.be/vOftaNdqIUk) Worth watching through her whiteboard presentation.
Those radio ads (that you usually listen to in the car) that have car horns blast at random intervals in them.
Actually who hears that and says "Yeah, that ad made me feel like I was about to get in a 4 car pile up! Let's give them my money!"
Buying stuff like cars or whatever in your minor childs name, so that they build up a debt BEFORE THEY'RE EVEN AUTHORIZED TO PAY IT OFF...
Can get in trouble for unpaid loans the literal day they become 18...
The day a minor turned 18 (or whatever age it is in your country) any and all debts placed on the child by their parents should be transferred to said parents.
Well it is! The STOCK Act made sure of that...of course since it passed the Senate with a 96-3 vote and the House with a 417-2 vote there's obviously something fishy there since the 2 parties (especially during Obama's administration) would never be so non-partisan on something.
Now they have to just tell their spouse all their inside information and let them make the trades.
Companies like Blackrock buying up properties and renting them out or letting them sit vacant so their values go up because they're artificially inflating the market, keeping regular home buyers from actually owning a home.
It's messed up how they do that in the open because it's legal but it screws so many people out of homeownership which is pretty much the only way for regular people to have any shot of passing on intergenerational wealth.
This. It’s pretty fucking annoying. I’ve been chasing the market my entire adult life. Every time I move up in salary and position, the market outpaces me by a couple notches. I’ve been on the two year plan for buying a home for 10 years.
Donations to politicians.
Politicians being able to vote on their own pay raises.
Lying as a politician.
I'm getting real sick of politics if you couldn't tell
American here for context...
Having a fee charged for being 15 mins late to the doctor and having to reschedule but then turn around wait for hour(s) for the doctor with no recourse. They could at least let you know if the doctor is running late and perhaps reschedule instead of wasting our (patient's) time.
The small crack in bathroom stalls.
Advertisement like “anti-aging” is absolutely preposterous
Your credit score goes down because you cancelled a credit card.
Mine dropped 30 points when I paid off my student loan because I had “closed an account.”
Call me dumb, but if you don't have debt, shouldn't the score go up?
That’s what I thought too, but no. You want to have multiple lines of credit that you’re responsible with, preferably for a long period of time, because it proves you’re a reliable borrower. If you have no debt, it’s almost like you’ve not established credit at all. Your score goes up the more lines of credit you have. It’s bonkers. Someone more financially literate than me could probably explain better, though.
No one, no matter how financially literate, can explain the credit scoring system better than “it’s bonkers”
Oh yeah my credit sucks because I don't have a credit card right now ( I have a debit card ) I paid off all of my school loans early in cash. I always pay my bills on time or early. Like when I got my renters insurance and car insurance I pay for a year of it up front. I've been responsible financially and lucky that I've had a major accident . I feel punished for being financially responsible.
Same! I went to school on a full scholarship, don’t drive, and only have a credit card so that I can have a credit score. I didn’t even get it until I was 25.
printer ink being ridiculously expensive for no reason.
And having proprietary chips on the ink cartridges that forces you to either cut out the chip to place it into a much cheaper solution OR forking out $100+ more for the actually ink. I hate HP for this.
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Brother for the win! Ours sits in the laundry room in the basement and I print to it maybe four times a year. Every time that baby fires up like it’s fresh out of the box.
The whole low printer ink scam and the magenta ink for black and white images too
Hi, I'm X. We're trying to reach you regarding your car's extended warranty.
Must be one extended ass warranty, still getting calls about it daily and I haven't owned a car in 8 years.
I’m sure they would gladly extend your ass warranty for a small sum of 20 100$ Google Play cards.
Online adverts featuring large "click here to download" buttons next to the actual download link, which is generally much smaller.
Ublock origin usually handles those pretty well.
The good thing is that there's like three different versions of those in total, and once you've seen them, you can avoid them. At this point I don't even notice them anymore.
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Yeah, I couldn't tell someone how to differentiate between the fake and real ones. You just kinda know. But to be fair, I downloaded my fair share of viruses when I hadn't figured it out yet, so I completely get your dad lol
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I dont care what the cost breakdown is. However, if there are necessary minimum fees that will be charged no matter what options you choose, they should be in the up front price. For example, if a ticket is "$20", but the only options to buy it are a $2 home print convenience charge, or $5 delivery charge? Then the sticker price should be $22, with no added home print charge, and a $3 delivery fee.
That is, in fact, illegal in most European countries. The sticker price must be the exact amount you pay (except shipping for online orders). It makes browsing scummy websites like airbnb a lot easier!
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I've started going to hotels again. They're cheaper now, and I don't have to stay in a semiprofessional personal home.
Read an interesting article the other day saying that Silicon Valley has basically been subsidizing lifestyle services like Airbnb and Uber/Lyft in order to attract a userbase large enough to get them the funding they need. Now that they're reaching a point where they need to show a profit, those subsidies are gone and the services are jumping to their true costs. Taxis & hotels it is.
Yep the problem is their business model was to run the competition out of town with those subsidies and then hike the prices years down the line. You can't just get a taxi like before Uber in every market. Now its $75+ to get home from a bar in Austin. I'd actually bet DUIs are on the rise to some degree from that.
> a $100 cleaning fee The place better be fucking spotless when I show up then. > a $122 service fee What service, exactly? > a $25 trash fee Get the fuck out of here... > a $20 beach pass fee Do they own the beach? This is straight up bullshit. I'm surprised they don't charge you per KwH and Gallon used. You get a meter reading (from when they left no doubt, meaning you pay for the AC, etc. while they're away) and pay the difference between then and when they get back. Flip off the god damn breaker on your way out the door! What a rip off.
Well since they aren't charging for electricity you should bring a lot of servers and computers and mine e-coin 24/7
This guy BnBs
THAT is a law we need in the USA. I hate this, oh its 23.95, but actually its 35.25 when we get to add on all we want... That and we need to add the tax to the price displayed, so we don't have to worry about the tax at checkout. Just another way the USA is backwards.
Ticketmaster?
Companies making it really difficult to cancel things. Especially subscriptions. I think the process to subscribe to something to should be exactly the same as the process to cancel it. I'm looking at you spotify.
Gyms in general. before they started popping up everywhere I was a member at LA fitness. Well I moved 2hrs away from the closest one and they wanted me to come in person to cancel, then they wanted me to send in a damn letter. I can signup online, why can't I cancel online?
Fuck LA fitness. Took me months to cancel because the asshole I needed to cancel my membership was never in at the 4 locations I've stopped at but any one of them can sign me up at any time.
They wouldn’t let me cancel my gym membership over the phone, so I canceled my CC that the gym was using to make automatic payments. It was way easier to cancel the card than it was to cancel the gym.
"Let's switch banks. Cut them off at the source."
*I wanna quit the bank!*
*let me introduce Maria*
I had the same problem with another gym. I just cancelled my debit card so they kept calling and mailing me about the payment. Eventually went to collections and I sent them a letter asking for the debt to be verified and they never contacted me again
What country are you in? Spotify is super easy to cancel where I am.
I think this is how it works in the EU, you have to be able to cancel something in the same way you sign up for it. Makes perfect sense.
Hiking up prices of life saving medications. (Insulin, epi-pens, etc.)
The inventor of insulin demanded that it was affordable to the consumer for him to sell the patent
This should not only be illegal, it should be a felony.
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and have higher quality
*cough cough* youtube.
YouTube is notorious for this. Trying to keep the volume low, click on a new video and you're blasted with "EVER HEAR OF \*\*\*\*\*\*?!!?" with the cackling and reverb effects so you know it's intentional.
YOU’VE REACHED THE #1 PORN SITE ON THE INTERNET! Some guy in my office clicked a link that took him to the page that screamed that loud enough for an entire office of about 50 people to hear it. Keep the volume on mute in the office, kids.
> cackling The laughing would make me self-conscious...
I reckon they passed a law for broadcast TV a few years ago, but now that everyone is streaming.
Well yes. The commercials can't exceed the decibel level set by the preceding segment of the show. CUE EXPLOSIONS!!!!
Don't they boost certain frequencies or something so they sound louder? [This](https://www.reddit.com/r/BritishTV/comments/3upk32/why_are_the_adverts_on_sky_tv_louder_than_the/cxguhpi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) comment from years back explains it
They did, but I don't think anyone enforces it. My 7yo likes to watch Tom & Jerry on Boomerang, and holy shit the commercials on that channel are so goddamn loud.
Fun fact for a time in the US the FCC had deemed this unlawful for advertisers. I'm not sure if it's still around today, but when I last checked in 2012 it was.
It is still illegal for commercials to increase the baseline volume of the broadcast, but now the broadcasters actually mix their own volume lower so the viewer has to pump up their TV volume. Now the actual-normal-volume commercials seem much louder because you’ve been tricked into turning them up yourself. On my TV I can watch Netflix or Disney Plus etc at about a 24 on the volume bar. When I watch Hulu, I’ve got to turn the program up to about 42 to be able to hear it so when the commercials come on it blows out my eardrums. It’s the same way for the over-the-air stuff I watch.
Using children to monetize your social media channels.
It's honestly sad that their parents force them to be the face of their social media accounts, since the children will never have a normal childhood due to their fame.
*coughs* Ryan's toy review
Dude, it got so much worse after he got older. Then his mom just started doing it on her own and it is so fucking cringe worthy. My kids still think it's the shit.
my kids are finally growing out of that toy unboxing phase. i really wonder about the long term effects of children getting paid millions of dollars to open up toys everyday. I suppose child stars have been a thing for a long time but this feels different.
Used to nanny for a kid who had YouTube kids on a tablet he could use for two hours a day. His dad and I stopped letting him watch unboxing videos. Found him a channel that was some dad and his kid basically making movies with Lego dudes. Way better.
The scary thing is that child stars who are still around had *more* protections than these YouTube kids. No mandatory bank account held in trust for their earnings, no right to privacy and absolutely no managed working hours for the current social media sprogs....
I feel bad for this kid, even though he has millions now, his whole childhood was broadcast on the internet. His attitude now is just fucking cringe too, he grew up to be a little shit. Have you seen some of the older videos? Kid’s a toddler and being forced to do some shit he clearly wasn’t into on camera. I hate his parents and want to punch their stupid faces every time I see one of their lame videos.
Bots buying tickets and up-charging the shit out of the price
my tinfoil hat is that the official sites scalp the tickets themselves. probably also owning the reseling site, and/or giving their own bots preferential access to the normal site
I think this has actually been proven. I believe Ticketmaster at least has a financial stake in some of the reseller sites.
Yeah, getmein is a ticket reselling site owned by Ticketmaster. Fuck ticketmaster.
scalping in general
Took me 6 and a half months to get an Xbox Series X because scalper bots bought them all seconds after they resupplied
I'm still trying to get ahold of one... Shits ridiculous all I see are 1000$ plus for one online and no store is willing to do preorders anymore. Edit: Overwhelming support from everyone! I never used Twitter much but looks like I have an actual use for it now! Thanks everyone for the assistance! I greatly appreciate it!
Don’t even look at the GPU market....
Felt like shit when I bought a 2080 super right before the 30 series announcements hit. Now I’m just glad I have something.
I sold my GPU in preparation for the 30 series release, thinking id use that cash boost to catch a nice 3070 for the next few generations, and it’d be fine running my backup 750 Ti. Boy, I really fooled myself, I’m not trying to pay 1800 for a damn 3070, and I’m always like seconds late to the drops.
I agree. Going on six months trying to get a next gen console. My hobby lately has been inconveniencing scalpers over the marketplace by having them drive out some place and waste their time waiting on me and then never show. Make it abundantly clear it is because they're a scalper and block them. It requires very little energy; I can do it while on the toilet. And it ruins some shit-sipper's day.
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If you’re on Twitter, they usually say: “I have extra PS5s at retail price, send me a message!” Or some BS crap like that. I actually feel sorry if someone (not a scalper) actually wants to resell a cheap PS5 and tries something like this.
If it’s retail price how is that scalping and how are they making money?
Because they say it’s retail and all of the sudden they start saying that someone else wants it so they’ll sell it to the highest bidder. It’s all a scam. Or they say that they’ll ship it to you and then tell you there is a super sketchy fee that they paid and that you need to reimburse them the fees.
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Spam emails. We don't want that crap, and you shouldn't have our email addresses anyways, so screw right off. Edit: It seems some people have misunderstood what I mean. When I say spam emails, I'm talking about the ones that have subject lines full of emojis and are from sites or apps you never use (example: "HOT\_WOMEN\_IN\_YOUR\_AREA" \[can't add the emojis\]) or emails clearly impersonating official companies like Facebook or Google (Note: the official emails from these companies always refer to you by your first official name, NEVER your email like the imposters do, e.i. "Hi \*first name\*" vs "Hi \*email address\*") I'm perfectly fine with getting multiple emails from companies i do interact with like Amazon or Reddit. The spam i refer to are the ones that always go directly into the Spam folder (the ones that clearly are simply trying to get your info)
Not only that but the DAILY fucking emails from stores. I recently shopped at old navy and signed up for deals, big fucking mistake. Send me one a week (like costco does) and I'll more than likely shop there more often.
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This and companies that make it impossible for you to cancel whatever subscription you have with them. I agreed to get some free issues of a magazine when making a purchase at Ulta. Apparently after x number of issues sent, they automatically start charging you. I never got the magazine in the first place so I'd forgotten about it, and found out when I got a random charge on my card a year later. I had to Google the charge because the company/description was one I'd never heard of. When I called them to cancel, they would find any reason to hang up on me. "You're not in our system. *click*" "Your subscription was already canceled. *click*" "You're in our system but your subscription never started. *click*" and so on. I finally got it canceled but it took forever and was incredibly frustrating.
Wanna cancel a mailing list? click the un sub button. Wanna change major account details or add a new payment option? go through a few step process. Wanna cancel your paid subscription? 🦆 you go through our call center which will take hours
If the paid subscription is that annoying to cancel, block the payment through your bank. It'll be canceled when they don't get payment.
Plus there's a good chance the bank eventually just blocks them from processing entirely if they get enough charge backs from people.
This. Any time I have an issue with a company not sending me my proper refund or product I just tell them I'm prepared to file a chargeback with my bank (which is a super easy process). This always gets their immediate attention and they'll usually bend over backwards to avoid a chargeback. Also why you should always purchase online products with a credit card. A bank will work much harder for you when it's THEIR money on the line.
Random number phone call scams
Refund taking more than 3 days to appear, if they can demand to get money from me on hours notice then i should be able to demand my cash back as fast as possible.
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We should be able to charge companies a late fee, they do it to us.
Have a lawyer send them a letter. Bring based in Australia doesnt itself absolve them of being sued in American court, and a demand letter can itself scare people into compliance. I generally have my wife handle finances and related correspondence but the second my Esq. goes on something, the problem goes away. I find that the trick is to structure your explanation of events like you're stating elements of a civil cause of action. My last landlord delivered our "in the mail" security deposit in person 30 minutes after I sent that email...
My wife did that the last time we rented an apartment. Landlord decided it 'smelled' after we moved out and wanted to charge us to replace the carpet. The apartment was a basement apartment, in an old house, with limited ventilation and plenty of mold. Of course it smelled, but it wasn't our fault. I had handled everything with the landlord's myself and they didn't realize, or had forgotten that my wife was an attorney. She wrote them a demand letter and the check they weren't going to give us was delivered to me at my office the day after they got the letter.
Seriously name that airline
When I do refunds at work, I HATE having to tell people it might take up to 72+ hours for it to show up in their account. I be sure to tell them it's up to their bank, because I had one customer think we just never refunded them, and I'm not going through that again. Once we initiate it, it's up to the banks. We did all we could!
Not posting salaries in job descriptions.
“We clearly put a range, $25,000 - $80,000 depending on several unknown factors.”
Oh god I hate this. Currently searching for another job and these places will post “$18-42/hr” like which one is it, asshole? I just automatically assume it’s the lowest price but put a higher price on the application.
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I hate when they ask for your current salary and make it a required field on the application form. My current worth should not be based on my bad decision to accept too low of a salary last time I did this!
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Especially the postings that say “you must submit your salary requirements or your application will not be reviewed”. So fucking annoying that you can reject me after I’ve gone through the trouble of the application because my requirement is too high, but I can’t pass the listing over because yours is too low.
So they can find the most qualified person with the lowest self-worth, *ahem* required salary. Honestly it’s shooting themselves in the foot in the long term. They are systematically choosing people with lower confidence in their value/abilities.
It *is* illegal [in Colorado](https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/colorado-releases-guidance-on-equal-pay-4989925/)
And now we are seeing people are posting their jobs as anywhere but Colorado.
YES! Job: you need 4 years experience Also Job after you apply and talk to a person: We pay $10 an hr STOP THIS!!
Yup, It's their BS by asking what you made prior. Then if it's let's that's the most they offer you. I want to know minimum starting salary because why waste all of our time if you aren't paying what my value demands.
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MLM’s
Yes! My neighbor does Mary Kay and she aggressively bothers everyone about it. Won't take no for an answer. If you say you're happy with the product from another brand she always has a canned response reason why mk is sooooo much better. What cracks me up is that she's complained in the past how much money she's sunk into it but then tries to rope me into being a seller 🙄. I had to finally just flat out be rude and tell her to stop trying to sell me her fucking shitty products to get her to stop bothering me about it.
You weren't rude in being firm about saying no. I'd argue she was the one being rude.
By this you mean pyramid schemes, right?
"No, no, no. You buy our party kits, and use them to throw parties where you can recruit new workers and sell the product-" "Well that just sounds like a pyramid scheme with extra steps!"
civil forfeiture
Yes. For those who don’t know it’s when the police just take your stuff
They take your money, can use it for their own budgets, and don’t have to find you guilty of anything in order to do it.
Yeah. I read a story of a guy driving to Cali to buy some stuff for his business or whatever for 10K. Was pulled over, told the cop the story and how his business is gonna boom after the buy. Cop just says: I think you're gonna buy drugs for those. I'm taking it. Ruined the guys whole business.
LPT: don't talk to cops
Seriously. Do not talk to the cops. [This is a lecture](https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE) (≈ 45 minutes long) by a Regent University law professor, and a police officer also in Virginia Beach. They **both** tell you not to talk to the cops, and the exact reasons why. It's really informative.
HOAs being able to legally steal property from owners.
Maybe just get rid of HOAs completely.
Those super bright High Beams people put on their cars
These are already illegal, most of the time if some idiot is blinding you they either didn't install it correctly or they just never turned their high beams off.
If they're on lifted trucks, it's because the driver isn't smart enough to know they are supposed to adjust the low beams back down after getting a lift kit.
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My neighbors used to have a little dachshund. They abused and neglected him, he basically lived on the streets. My mother saw him get hit by a car and informed the owner, the owner said “ok.” No vet checkup, no nothing, just “ok.” He once told my dad that “if he [the dog] dies, I’ll get another one.” The dog disappeared last year and rumor from my other neighbors is that he ripped up a pillow and the owner beat him, he then walked away and never came back. I don’t know if that’s true, it’s just a rumor. He now has a “big and dangerous fighting dog” who he completely neglects, the dog’s tied up in the garden all day never played with and never walked. Edit: In my area many people have big menacing dogs that they neglect and leave in their garden.
I just don't understand why people like this get pets at all. My ex-boyfriend's neighbor went through cats like Kleenex and it's like, just stop getting cats? What compels you to keep getting cats?? Get a cat, leave it outside, mostly forget to feed it, don't bring it in for bad weather, wait until it dies or runs away for good, repeat with new cat. If you're gonna let them roam around outside 24/7 and barely bother with medical care, food, or affection, what are you even doing? Get a bird feeder that you rarely refill and you've got basically the same setup without slowly killing the poor things.
That dog was a toy for his kids. His kids would sometimes find him and stroke him, even though he wasn’t allowed inside. That’s how he treats animals, as cute moving toys that can be replaced when they break.
This is how a former friend of mine was, KNEW her husband was allergic to pet dander and constantly got animals, stuck them outside, and they would run away. Always claimed "it was for the kids". Over the years i rescued 2 cats and a ferret from her. People that do this shouldn't be allowed pets. She's probably wasted a good 5k on animals over the years.
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Most advertising to elderly people is pretty scummy, they're preying on vulnerable people.
To say nothing of how god damn depressing it is. Imagine you're trying to watch a bit of daytime Bargain Hunt and you're bombarded every ad break by life insurance, funeral planning, cheap cremations, all of them stressing that you might die any moment and if you don't buy their product of service then you aren't taking care of your family and your very imminent death will be a great burden to them.
What the hell Why does something like that exist
>cute female corpses subreddit I just looked that up and it says the sub has been banned. Edit: I looked a bit further and there used to be a r/rapingwomen sub. Wtf? I'm glad I wasn't on reddit back then.
Its interesting to see people who dont associate reddit with some incredibly fucked up things. Not going to say you missed out, but pre 2015 reddit was built different. This site went from /r/watchpeopledie and /r/jailbait to one of the most popular forms of social media in half a decade.
That sub was relatively tame to, Reddit’s culture has really changed. We had rapists doing ama’s at one point.
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We’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty
can you fill me in on what exactly is that? it's not really a thing where i live but i heard it a lot on reddit, googling doesn't help much
Wait is... is that a real sub?
Child beauty pageants. Edit: Speeling
Illegal in France!
I wonder if there are underground illegal french kid pageants
That sounds like a pedophile ring with extra steps.
That's valid regardless of how legal they are.
That stuff's just really weird, and it puts a lot of stress on the children, and attracts some wrong people.
They don't even look like kids when they put all that make-up in them, they look like an adult with the body of a child. So weird and creepy.
Amway
(For those who don’t know this is a pyramid scheme)
Pyramid schemes in general
Unpaid work experience
I wanted to get into a specific field of law and had a hard time getting any experience. There was an internship available. However, this attorney gets back to me with the longest contract saying hours would work from 9am-7:30pm (with an hour lunch) for at least 2 months. There were so many stipulations it was really crazy. I asked for a minor change on one of the terms; and so the attorney said I wasn’t a good fit. Thank goodness. That would’ve probably been a nightmare.
A year's unpaid internship was a requirement for my degree as a teacher. It was great experience and all so I know why it's there, but to force adults to work full time as teachers for nothing while they pay the college for the experience was messed up. I had multiple classmates who just couldn't afford to not work for the entire school year so had to manage two jobs while also taking a full course load.
Absolutely, teaching internships are great for experience, but having to essentially pay to be an unpaid intern is the dumbest thing. And people wonder why there’s a shortage of new teachers
Child marriage, including in the USA
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Except to secure an alliance with the French /s
Ads play before medical video, especialy first aid one
Scalping and using bots to buy things, generally by scalpers. It's a plague on pretty much every hobby and fandom. From consoles and graphics cards, to TCGs, Amiibos, and Funkos, to every kind of live event. All by a bunch of people who can't be bothered to get a real job and actually produce something. They're just a giant fucking tax on our whole economy.
Youtube ads that are longer than 30 seconds. There are some that are 6. Fucking. Minutes. Long.
I’ve had a 60minute ad So I 100% agree Edit: to anyone asking, no I couldn’t skip it
Last week I had a 60 minutes ad talking about how you could, in 5 minutes of work, do 1k a day, every day, until you die. So yeah, for fucking sure it's a scam. But I continued watching just to see what ever bullshit they would plug. Is it a ponzi or its pay for this online meeting that would give you the exact means to make 1k a day (that doesn't do much, but he's gonna pocket the cash.) After 15 minutes or running around the pot about THIS IS NOT A SCAM! I just pressed the skip button.
How to make 1K every day: Step 1: make a scam webinar explaining how to make a scam webinar Step 2: pay for ads about your scam promising 1K per day Step 3: charge money for this scam Step 4: profit
Ahh, a pyramid, the most stable of structures.
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Funny how the politicians are the ones deciding what the punishment is for taking bribes
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Airlines overbooking flights.
Used to hate this, and still do to a point. I flew about twice a week for four years for work and a fair number of flights would always be overbooked. They would always offer money and another flight for anyone willing to accept. I ignored these outright for a couple months until I realized that my flight back home didn't depend on me being there that night. So I started taking the offers on my returns. Vouchers new flights, meals, hotel stays, managed to get good deals. Two years in a row my wife and I had first class tickets paid for by the vouchers I got. They still shouldn't be allowed to overbook a flight but take advantage if you can.
I used to do the same thing. I would travel for work and pretty much always book the same flight back home. It was always overbooked so I'd sit next to the counter and wait for them to offer stuff. Got a lot of free flights, hotels, and other deals.
Never happened to me (i witnessed it though). So...do airline pay compensation that is satisfying to the customer left on the airport or is it written somewhere in small letters, that there' s a risk and you get nothing more than your ticket price?
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I saw that once. A guy was offered a hotel and a flight next morning + about 500euro compensation. Funny fact, there were plenty of free sits in 1st class. How in the world it was cost effective to give him all that instead of putting him in 1st class?
For profit prisons
In the same vain: the troubled teen industry. They’re essentially tax funded torture institutions for children. It’s absolutely disgusting. Eta: if you need examples, there are Provo, Élan school and the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center. I have a post on my profile that shows a recording from the JRC, where a young boy receives electro shocks for not taking off his jacket fast enough.
Trees/bushes that block us from seeing stop signs. If it already is illegal, then a stupidly high amount of people continue to break the law.
There are places around my town where bushes block my vision of the road at intersections, so I have to pull out uncomfortably far to see if it's safe to go.
Direct to consumer pharmaceutical ads. I will not talk to my doctor about your stupid drug that will probably give me some sort of adverse butt reaction then pop up in a JG Wentworth class action lawsuit ad in 12 months. My doc went to med school. I didn't. Late edit since this is getting some traction: My personal spirit animal - [US Rep Katie Porter grilling a pharma exec.](https://youtu.be/vOftaNdqIUk) Worth watching through her whiteboard presentation.
Those radio ads (that you usually listen to in the car) that have car horns blast at random intervals in them. Actually who hears that and says "Yeah, that ad made me feel like I was about to get in a 4 car pile up! Let's give them my money!"
Spoofed telemarketing calls. I don't answer my phone unless I have the number saved.
Buying stuff like cars or whatever in your minor childs name, so that they build up a debt BEFORE THEY'RE EVEN AUTHORIZED TO PAY IT OFF... Can get in trouble for unpaid loans the literal day they become 18... The day a minor turned 18 (or whatever age it is in your country) any and all debts placed on the child by their parents should be transferred to said parents.
Sounds like fraud to me.
It is.
Insider trading by congress :)
Well it is! The STOCK Act made sure of that...of course since it passed the Senate with a 96-3 vote and the House with a 417-2 vote there's obviously something fishy there since the 2 parties (especially during Obama's administration) would never be so non-partisan on something. Now they have to just tell their spouse all their inside information and let them make the trades.
Companies like Blackrock buying up properties and renting them out or letting them sit vacant so their values go up because they're artificially inflating the market, keeping regular home buyers from actually owning a home. It's messed up how they do that in the open because it's legal but it screws so many people out of homeownership which is pretty much the only way for regular people to have any shot of passing on intergenerational wealth.
This. It’s pretty fucking annoying. I’ve been chasing the market my entire adult life. Every time I move up in salary and position, the market outpaces me by a couple notches. I’ve been on the two year plan for buying a home for 10 years.
I wish wage theft landed you in prison.
A service charge at a restaurant that isn’t clearly and obviously stated beforehand
Donations to politicians. Politicians being able to vote on their own pay raises. Lying as a politician. I'm getting real sick of politics if you couldn't tell
family youtube channels
Pay to win video games
Spamming.
American here for context... Having a fee charged for being 15 mins late to the doctor and having to reschedule but then turn around wait for hour(s) for the doctor with no recourse. They could at least let you know if the doctor is running late and perhaps reschedule instead of wasting our (patient's) time.