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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Tell me about common cons/scams: "Thanks, you suck. Hello, this is Linda."
 
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Jan 28, 2011

If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then he will do it that way.
Gift cards. The biggest scam dollar-wise in the world.

Studies show most aren't actually used, so basically giving free money to stores. And if they are used then the person usually has to go out of their way to get something they don't actually want.

Just as careless as cash with the bonus of being idiotic.

One slight rare exception is Amazon.com's model, where it's credited to your account automatically and you don't have to do anything special to use it.

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Tell me about common cons/scams: "Thanks, you suck. Hello, this is Linda."