I paid for an extended warranty for my TV, because the TV was expensive (83 inch LG OLED C2), the extended warranty was only $100, and it extended the warranty from 1 year to 5.
Check your credit card perks too - A lot of credit cards give you one year extended warranty for free.
US warranties are the real scam. Only one year for a $3500 TV? They don’t get away with that in countries with proper consumer protection… In Australia, products have to last as long as “a reasonable consumer” would expect them to last, for example 10-15 years for a fridge. The company must repair or replace the product if it breaks down during that time frame, regardless of how long they say the warranty is for. If it’s a large appliance, they must pick it up and drop it off for free. You must be able to return a product to the store you bought it from for warranty issues - they can’t say that you have to go to the manufacturer. Saying “no refunds” is illegal (except for on second-hand products). Companies that violate these rules get fined hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Specifically, compounding interest. I have no problem paying something extra back if I need to borrow a sum of money, but it should be a flat, fixed fee calculated as a percentage of the amount borrowed, up front.
This one, every time. Imagine buying a product or service for an agreed price, and then being guilt-tripped into having to pay 20% or more on top because the owners don’t pay their staff enough salary to survive on. It should be fucking illegal. Pay your staff a proper salary and charge your clients the price you published on your menu/price-list etc. Running a business isn’t a god-given right, and if you can’t do it with fucking your employees over, then you’re not capable of running a business period, and you should fuck off and let someone who is capable, and who isn’t an empathy vacuum have a go.
Sure a lot of people use religion as a business but just because some people take advantage of it doesn’t make it a cult. The real scammers are the people who take adcantage of it and those people deserve the death penalty
Religions promise anything and everything but don’t actually provide anything in return for time or money invested. It’s the very definition of a scam.
It’s no different than supplement scams or homeopathic pills.
Cites are like that BECAUSE they are not designed for people but for cars.
Design your city to be nice and people will come. Once people come, crime will go down. Of you design a shithole then don’t complain about the shit.
Start when? Tomorrow. Start how? Anywhere. Being with new construction requiring design for humans first. Make streets smaller and single direction. Build bicycle roads.
Oh also, stop the car manufacturer’s lobbyists because they don’t give a fuck that US cities are shit holes, they want to sell you more cars.
The Netherlands did t listen to them and see what it looks like now.
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