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Thanatosian posted:I would love to hear an alternative that you could actually find housing from. The only time Craigslist's ever come up in a housing search is when a place I was already looking at had a listing there(so I knew they were still available).
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DizzyBum posted:
Maybe a basic test of street smarts should be required before getting a passport. (  , hindsight, etc)
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Yeah, uhh, sounds like you fell for more than one there.
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Old Binsby posted:I couldn't really sympathize with earlier posts about cold calls for sales/scams/pyramid schemes until people mentioned getting them multiple times per day Sometimes I swear these threads get posts from a bizarro dimension where random people knock on your door to give you good things, 90% of people who approach you on the street aren't trying to get your money, and you make friends by answering mystery phone calls. At least that's the only way I can explain the occassional "lol what kind of antisocial goon doesn't open the door for randos/answer unknown numbers/engage with everyone on the street" posts. Old Binsby posted:Still think it's weird how regional the phenomenon is though, my phone has a SIM of my own and one from the office. The office one gets filled out to a lot of companies, a lot of people have it and it rotated between several different people before I got it but I get actual Phone Calls so rarely that I usually don't even recognize the ring tone the first few seconds (everyone IMs/VoIPs through various services). I figured maybe do-not-call registries worked really well because of ~~EU regulations~~ or something but the UK has them as well? The lovely TrueCaller dialer that came preinstalled on my android phone is starting to make sense now The only silver lining is that if you have a cell phone & moved away from its original area code, it's hilariously easy to spot spoofed calls since most of them will be from that area code. I'll get 3-5 calls per week I can instantly ignore since they're from the bumfuck Wisconsin area code I haven't lived in for years.
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Jun 29, 2017 00:57
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Yeah, then it makes sense to stop answering all calls because wtf
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Why not just make it something subsidized through regular old taxes? It seems like they're making way more work(and spending more money) with the TV fees than if the funding just came through income tax.
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Sep 5, 2017 17:48
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Pilsner posted:Just think for two minutes about MLM's selling juice, berries, pills or whatever, and it makes no sense. If a company made a product so great, why would they farm out the distribution, sales and profits to random people, instead of just selling it themselves? That's why the products are always overpriced bullshit.
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Dec 11, 2017 22:45
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Dr.Caligari posted:I just went threw buying a car and the whole process is a scam you have to watch carefully. I found a car I liked and they worked up some numbers, and they looked acceptable until I looked at the numbers... theys were trying to saddle me with an 84 month loan @ something like 7.7% interest, and I have stellar credit. told them to get hosed and I started to put my coat on. They said "Well, just wait a minute" . The guy left and came back and said "Oh, he made an error and the interest is actually 3.2%" . Then they did the whole "I've never seen my manager lower a car by so much... your are getting a steal!!!" (Which I've heard multiple times in the past from numerous dealerships). Then there's bullshit like this, to get you roped into looking at the payments and ignoring the full cost.
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Pilsner posted:It's what I've always done, and it's also naturally better for your economy, since you aren't taking up a loan. If you must buy some more expensive car, perhaps you can borrow from your parents at 0% or low interest (and pay them back of course). And I know you're saying it's just for a 'more expensive car', but people have to get their first car from somewhere. You're probably not going to avoid having at least one car loan during your life, unless you get your first job in a place where you don't need a car to get around, or unless mom/dad fund it for you. Or unless you were diligent about scraping together savings from college jobs, but there's an upper limit to that unless your parents were taking care of most of your expenses. And the days where you could get a $500-$1000 shitbox and have it roadworthy are long past(unless you find an insanely good deal somewhere). Although after that first car you can avoid a lot of hassle & financial drain by driving your cars until it's not worth it to keep fixing them, instead of switching every 3-4 years. A lot of people do that, and I have no idea why. I can't imagine going out of your way to have a car payment forever when you don't have to.  BiggerBoat posted:You do realize that many people simply don't have $5,000 in cash laying around, right? Also, to your second point about getting cash for your car: yes, that's a great idea but a LOT of people NEED the car they have to get to work to pay for the car you're talking about them buying.
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Red Oktober posted:I remember getting those, some would say send a chocolate bar, some a post card. I received one on Facebook recently: But none of them say they're "a bit of a book pyramid scheme, probably invented by Amazon", so why would you use them instead of this weird scheme? 
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fizzymercy posted:I work at an auto body and frame shop and I would just love to hear a single substantiated story about someone getting actually scammed at a legitimate auto shop. The thing is, everyone on earth thinks they're being suckered by their mechanic. Everyone isn't being scammed, that's stupid. Everyone thinks they're being scammed because cars are mysterious magic boxes that only break because all auto industry workers are dicks that want more money. We're not, we just took a lot of classes and also shoved our heads up the asses of so many cars we've earned your Ignorance Tax.
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Zwabu posted:In the last few years it seems I hear a ton of advertising on the radio relating to great franchises to get in on the ground floor. Even if the franchises you're hearing about aren't MLMs or other scams, a lot of scummy stuff can go on in franchising(and that even applies to franchises of well-known companies). Preying on people who don't know much about running a business is a big one there. Just how common that is depends on the company and how strict they are in vetting their franchisees before letting them buy in, of course.
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article posted:“Because we do in-home demonstrations of Kirby products as part of our work, you can imagine that this sometimes is misunderstood as door-to-door sales are not as common as they once were…  Thanatosian posted:I think this is probably the same poo poo that Kirby has been doing for decades, it just doesn't fly in this day and age.
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AllNewJonasSalk posted:I just don't understand the need for subterfuge with your own employees. Best case scenario: lovely call center boss doesn't really care what's going on as long as the paychecks clear, and can't be assed to explain the details of the business to a revolving door of employees. Or maybe boss doesn't fully understand themselves and just does whatever the people at the top tell them to do.
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Aug 26, 2018 22:14
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What I'm getting from this is that the less everyone uses physical cash, the better off we'll all be(except the scam artists).
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Nov 22, 2019 23:50
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I've also seen them use area codes that are nowhere near me. I've never lived in Florida, and nobody I know has either, but I've gotten robocalls with Florida area codes.
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Dec 9, 2019 02:48
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Well, if people go too fast the real fix for that isn't stop signs and the road should be narrowed and have stuff built with less of a setback and street parking should be encouraged and . (Still not a scam as much as a bandaid solution that's not as effective as people want it to be)
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Jan 26, 2020 18:33
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People are really bad at understanding that the waiters don't control the entire restaurant(and that if you politely raise an actual issue with your food, it'll get fixed/comped). Much better to punish the waiter for something that's not their fault and you never brought up to them. Or maybe the writer wants everywhere to be one of those gimmick restaurants where the waistaff treats you like poo poo on purpose?
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bird with big dick posted:How the gently caress you activate an almond
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tinytort posted:Yeah, it's the only reason I haven't switched it yet. Switching it might make it easier to get jobs and interviews, though - having an out-of-province number looks a little odd when I'm sending in applications for somewhere local.
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BiggerBoat posted:I mean, I know for the companies it's to design poo poo to break and to make all the parts proprietary, but how are they even trying to sell this to the 3/4 of the country that's broke and lives an 80 minute drive from an apple store? Safety concerns? Our tech is so sophisticated and Super next gen that no one can grasp it and some plebe might break it? Even though we pay slaves in China pennies to build this poo poo? https://money.howstuffworks.com/right-to-repair.htm posted:"The main issue that automakers had with right to repair legislation is stating that it would cost too much for them to adapt their diagnostic software in order to make it accessible to third parties," Tatarevic explains. "While there is some cost in adapting this software, the likely reality is that the manufacturers are looking out for their franchised dealers and their ability to bring in customers for out-of-warranty repair work." https://www.natlawreview.com/article/massachusetts-ballot-question-1-still-forefront-automakers-sue-to-block-its posted:The lawsuit argues that it will impose a financial burden on auto manufacturers and threatens the privacy of car owners by exposing data from their vehicles
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Is it time for the "Goodwill is poo poo and treats the people it supposedly helps like poo poo while legally paying them less than minimum wage because labor law allows you to do that with disabled employees" reminder? Between that and Salvation Army being a fundie group that hates queer people, you owe it to yourself to research local thrift shops and find one that goes to a legit cause instead.
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May 23, 2021 22:32
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BiggerBoat posted:Yeah, people need to chill a little bit. This is also why dealing with someone in your life who's fallen into an MLM is basically a 'you can't do anything to stop it unless they come to their senses themselves' situation. Everyone above them is more than happy to provide scripted defenses for why you're wrong and the MLM is fine actually.
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"I'm not owned! I'm not owned!", corncob, etc.
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Sites turning into "marketplaces" universally sucks rear end. I get why they do it - more money for them without having to do any of the work of shipping product - but it sucks on the buyer's end.Canine Blues Arooo posted:I've personally basically come full circle, where I use Amazon for window shopping and then buy the actual product direct from the manufacturer. Buying anything second hand off the Internet is basically never happening again for me unless I can examine the product first.  Hell, half the time I just use amazon to have another review pool to look at - actual window shopping on Amazon is a huge chore if you don't want whatever the top 2-3 things in a given search term/category are. (Bonus points if the top things are just color variations on one product or newer/older versions of the same thing)
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BiggerBoat posted:And good lord, I can't imagine how anyone can listen to or watch anything on YouTube without an ad blocker. I can't find one for my phone or my Xbox and occasionally I try to check out something and Jesus Christ it's obnoxious. Even on my laptop, which won't load ads, it'll loving sit there trying and often hang until I hit the skip ad button. I'm also not watching an ad for a Ford f150 or coca cola to read the loving news
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Jun 30, 2021 06:46
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Nighthand posted:About once or twice a year I used to get a mailer from a local used car dealer with one of those faux-lottery/slots/gambling cards, with a list of prizes you win if you match the symbols or whatever. With the value of used cars inflated I've been getting them monthly now, and it made me realize I don't really know how they work.
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Midjack posted:Anybody who knocks on your door to sell you something is scamming, or at the very least a patsy, full stop. Maybe not Girl Scouts with cookies, but anyone else treat as hostile from the start. These scams keep working because there's still some percentage of people credulous enough to assume that someone reaching out to sell them poo poo unprompted must be honest.
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SIHappiness posted:" As a side note, it's yet another reason why you should never use your debit card as a credit card at a vendor. Always pay with a credit card anywhere, then immediately repay it from your checking account if you want to treat it as an instant-pay transaction like you would with debit. You just lose too many consumer protections with debit cards. But yeah, there's very few good reasons to pay with a debit card instead of a credit card if you're in the US. Fewer protections, it's your own money at stake if someone steals the number(the bank is still supposed to get you your money back, but a lot of people can't afford to wait for that to happen), all the stuff just discussed with holds, etc. About the only place I'd use my debit card around here is a regional grocery chain that straight-up doesn't take credit cards to keep their prices down. The system that expects you to have and use a credit card if you want better protections is arguably a scam in itself, but  .
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"Did you see those sausages? I rest my case."
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wesleywillis posted:Reverse mortgages, they seemed so scammy to me the first time I heard of them but I have no idea what the scam actually is. In other words, it's a scam in the general sense that the societal use of debt(credit cards, loans, and otherwise) to make up for wage stagnation is a scam. quote:What about selling your life insurance policy? Whole life insurance is effectively a scam if you're not rich enough to need it for estate planning. Anyone who has it is likely better off cashing it out and putting the money somewhere better. And for the love of gently caress, don't bother with that Gerber plan poo poo for kids.
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Mobile/desktop firefox with ublock will also block youtube ads. There's really no reason to put up with them these days.
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Being a rich failchild probably helps there: https://twitter.com/leylaaa31/status/1758324417434648936
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