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DemihumanResources posted:Is this included with amazon prime or are you talking about AWS? Unlimited* full res photo storage including RAW files is included with Prime. It's too slow and clunky to use day to day but for cloud backup it's great. * the T&C's include that you can't use it for business use so presumably if you are storing 200TB of wedding photos there they will eventually shut you down
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The building where I go to work in Washington had its Google Maps tag "claimed" by an electrician in Texas who changed all of its data and moved it to Houston. My alarm woke me up this morning by informing me that there is typical traffic on my drive to work and that the drive will take approximately 36 hours.
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DemihumanResources posted:Also, for as lovely as Amazon is, I went to my local Michaels to get some art supplies thinking "hey I'll do my OWN same day Speaking of things that got shittier ... AC Moore was always the better crafting store. Pissed me off a right much when Michael's bought them and then shut them all down. I used to hit AC Moore for stuff all the time. I don't go to Michael's at all. gently caress Hobby Lobby too, but that goes without saying.
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" and literally everything like pencils and sketch pads were more expensive. Same brand. Same item number. All $2 more. IF THEY EVEN loving HAD THEM IN STOCK. I left mondo depressed
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Cerekk posted:The building where I go to work in Washington had its Google Maps tag "claimed" by an electrician in Texas who changed all of its data and moved it to Houston. My alarm woke me up this morning by informing me that there is typical traffic on my drive to work and that the drive will take approximately 36 hours. Ask your boss for an out of state stipend.
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Michaels and a few other stores purposely price their items super high because those who are regular shoppers always just show the 50% off coupon on the website - or soon retailer app. Either a) you are trained to visit the website or interact with the app for metrics or; B ) you see a coupon and don't know the con and think wow what a deal and limited time too and go there to buy C) you don't know about the coupon and buy something at the lovely price because the atmosphere or some poo poo makes it seem like the products are higher quality than Walmart.
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Zamboni Rodeo posted:gently caress Hobby Lobby too, but that goes without saying. Nah, you should say it every time you get the chance
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McSpanky posted:Abandon modernity, return to personally-curated website lists Joe McMillan was on to something with Comet..
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I wonder how much longer until hardware becomes locked at a subscription. Buy that new microwave and washing machine for only $30 a month! Now everyone can own appliances, sure you'll spend more in the long run, but in the short term it's so affordable! Once you subscription lapses the machine stops working and bills you a huge cancellation fee and you also have to pay for the cost of courier to come pick it up! You all know it's gonna happen eventually, we keep paying for subscriptions, even when they raise prices and make them worse companies continue to report growth and record profits. You know every industry wants to get a piece of the action.
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Ikea already offers a subscription for their furniture. You can already "buy" phones on a subscription basis. The things you mentioned probably already exist, somewhere
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steinrokkan posted:Ikea already offers a subscription for their furniture. You can already "buy" phones on a subscription basis. The things you mentioned probably already exist, somewhere
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Well I guess they call it rental, but it's the same thing https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/22/why-you-might-be-renting-not-buying-your-next-couch.html I don't know if they gave up or if they still offer that option in some countries But essentially it's a way to make people pay more for furniture with a shorter life span (there's no way they lease your beat-up cardboard closet to anybody else once you turn it back in after five years, it's straight to the landfill)
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That’s from 2022 and I’ve yet to see anything like that here. I have the secondhand IKEA in my town and it owns bones, they’re really big on reusing the furniture? I’ve gotten some steals from there and the kinda-mall it’s located in.
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Original_Z posted:I wonder how much longer until hardware becomes locked at a subscription. Buy that new microwave and washing machine for only $30 a month! Now everyone can own appliances, sure you'll spend more in the long run, but in the short term it's so affordable! Once you subscription lapses the machine stops working and bills you a huge cancellation fee and you also have to pay for the cost of courier to come pick it up! It's called rent-to-own and it's been around for decades.
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:It's called rent-to-own and it's been around for decades. Yes, but in the future the 'own' part will be taken away! Pay forever or they'll disable the functionality or take it away at your expense!
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Original_Z posted:I wonder how much longer until hardware becomes locked at a subscription. Buy that new microwave and washing machine for only $30 a month! Now everyone can own appliances, sure you'll spend more in the long run, but in the short term it's so affordable! Once you subscription lapses the machine stops working and bills you a huge cancellation fee and you also have to pay for the cost of courier to come pick it up! They just do this by locking 90% of the features behind a subscription and making it not worth running without paying.
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Gotta throw a quarter into the bed coin box every 4 hours or anti-piracy spikes come out of the mattress
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Original_Z posted:Yes, but in the future the 'own' part will be taken away! Pay forever or they'll disable the functionality or take it away at your expense! You already can't own rent-to-own stuff, the whole model is that you pay forever or it gets repossessed. Dip Viscous fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Apr 18, 2024 |
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dreezy posted:if you still pay for amazon prime post your pathetic rationalizations here so we can laugh at you for being a big stupid sucker i thinke most people do it for the free shipping
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Original_Z posted:Once you subscription lapses the machine stops working and bills you a huge cancellation fee and you also have to pay for the cost of courier to come pick it up! This appliance is damaged and needs to be replaced, here's a bill for the full cost of replacement plus lost earning potential.
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teen witch posted:That’s from 2022 and I’ve yet to see anything like that here. I have the secondhand IKEA in my town and it owns bones, they’re really big on reusing the furniture? I’ve gotten some steals from there and the kinda-mall it’s located in. Oh see that doesn't make as much money so no loving chance of that happening anywhere near the US.
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:It's called rent-to-own and it's been around for decades. Yeah furniture rental and rent to own places have been around longer than I've been alive and there are full businesses that only do just that. BMW having a subscription for car seat warmers, however, is pretty new. quick edit: Original_Z posted:Yes, but in the future the 'own' part will be taken away! Pay forever or they'll disable the functionality or take it away at your expense! Yeah. 
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Back before the Evil Fed raised rates you could get 0% financing on like all types of furniture and appliances. It was great
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:It's called rent-to-own and it's been around for decades. Once upon a time random guys would knock on my door asking about my neighbor and trying to get me to take letters to hand them the next time I saw them. Turns out those guys were from a rent-to-own place, my neighbor was behind on their payments, and the collectors were trying to rope me in on it.
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thathonkey posted:i thinke most people do it for the free shipping Yep. I very rarely use prime video. Or any streaming service for that matter. Maybe once every few months to find some boring documentary to put on in the background. The savings in shipping is immense. Try getting some workout equipment shipped to your house. It's actual purpose is to be heavy and heavy = super loving expensive shipping. Hell, I ordered something that weighs 1lb last night and and the $30 item would have been $10.50 in shipping. The only reason I have Hulu is to watch It's Always Sunny whenever I want. That's it though. So I should probably cancel that ASAP. I have no other streaming services. As someone mentioned earlier, streaming has just reinvented cable but instead of sending your money to one company you are sending it to 5 different ones. 5 different companies who are charging you more every year and making the product worse, purposefully, to make you pay more. poo poo sucks yo. I jumped on the streaming thing for a while but I'm pretty much done. It seems like they want me to pirate everything again. So I will.  edit: Amazon is a horrible company and if I can get stuff local I try. Especially books. Pennywise the Frown fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Apr 18, 2024 |
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:It's called rent-to-own and it's been around for decades. Tech is going to reinvent it with the internet of things, combining everyone's favorite feature of videogames -- live service/24-7 connectivity -- with everyone's favorite feature of capitalism -- rent seeking*. *I know that term doesn't typically mean rent in the literal sense, but in this case they're one and the same.
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If you want live local sports you are still paying for cable on top of steaming lol
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Original_Z posted:I wonder how much longer until hardware becomes locked at a subscription. Buy that new microwave and washing machine for only $30 a month! Now everyone can own appliances, sure you'll spend more in the long run, but in the short term it's so affordable! Once you subscription lapses the machine stops working and bills you a huge cancellation fee and you also have to pay for the cost of courier to come pick it up! My grandmother for many, many years had a rental CRT TV, it had a coin box on the back and periodically the TV would switch itself off and you'd have to pop a 50 pence piece in the back and twist a handle. As a kid it was actually kinda fun to do. These days though a kid wouldn't even get to twist a handle, the number would just drop off your bank balance.
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It's really not that different from the Rent-To-Own businesses, because with those the "Own" part was only theoretical. They work on the payday loan business model, just with a product in the middle. Rent out a couch, 90% of people will never actually make the principal or interest payments in full, so they either get the product repossessed, it end up paying forever and spending $60k on a $500 TV. There's people out there that are still "renting to own" a 1983 Zenith front-projection TV. They'll almost have it paid off by Christmas, if only they only had more money and less meth to buy.
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euphronius posted:If you want live local sports you are still paying for cable on top of steaming lol In theory
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euphronius posted:If you want live local sports you are still paying for cable on top of steaming lol This is basically all I do. It's getting harder to get stuff that used to be nationally broadcast on the air, though. Patiently awaiting for the super bowl to be exclusive on Apple TV one year
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You guys wanna hear something loving gross? So my dad died almost a year ago. It was very sad and I'm still upset about it. My nephew and sister are living with my mom (and dad previously) due to financial troubles. My nephew never had a dad. He skipped town immediately when he was born. My dad was like a dad to him. Last week my nephew told me that a while back, right after my dad died, someone came to their door and said "We're aware that someone just died here and we were wondering if you want to sell the house to us?" My nephew, about 6'3 220lbs and very polite and soft spoken was like "What?" The guy asked again and my nephew just said "Leave now." I couldn't believe the loving gall of that snake. What prompted my nephew to tell me is that I sent him this text I got two weeks ago.  I looked up the company and they have no online presence and have been around for less than 2 years. 
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:It's really not that different from the Rent-To-Own businesses, because with those the "Own" part was only theoretical. They work on the payday loan business model, just with a product in the middle. Rent out a couch, 90% of people will never actually make the principal or interest payments in full, so they either get the product repossessed, it end up paying forever and spending $60k on a $500 TV. I did some courses about personal finance stuff back in the late 00s, and the guy running them was a financial adviser who'd been in the industry for decades. One thing that stuck with me was that he said there'd been a big effort to raise awareness here in the UK for some years that those kind of rent-to-own/hire-purchase schemes were never, ever good value and to not trust them. And it had been working really well and they were starting to become much less common, except then the companies realised that people were actually really dumb so they just changed the way they described the arrangement and people immediately somehow missed that it was the exact same kind of scheme they knew was bad, and they became popular again. I can't remember what the actual change in wording was, but you'd straight up have people telling someone trying to help them with debts that they knew that kind of payment scheme was bad so they avoided it, but would be paying for multiple items using that very payment scheme under a different branding.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:My grandmother for many, many years had a rental CRT TV, it had a coin box on the back and periodically the TV would switch itself off and you'd have to pop a 50 pence piece in the back and twist a handle. As a kid it was actually kinda fun to do. These days though a kid wouldn't even get to twist a handle, the number would just drop off your bank balance. did she live in the book Ubik? ...oh god drat it. We all live in a Ubik now.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:You guys wanna hear something loving gross? Same. The mail and the phone calls trying to get the house are relentless.
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When my father died someone wrote me several letters claiming to have been a friend of my dad's, and he explained that he and my father had talked many times about how if and when my father died, this dude would get a good deal on the house. loving wild, I don't know if he'd ever even met my father, I'd never heard of this person.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:You guys wanna hear something loving gross? jfc That feels like some modern-day Dickensian nightmare profession
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My grandmother died a few years ago and the first two lawyers my parents tried pulled me aside partway through the initial meeting with the family to ask if I wanted to try to take the house for myself.
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