Its puzzling to me in 2022 how many people will still bleat online or waste time dealing with customer service. Call Amex, chargeback for non-receipt of goods, move on with your day

I work for a motorcycle parts manufacturer/supplier that sells direct to multiple online resellers with similar business models to BikeBandit. Although we never dealt with BikeBandit, this is basically how most of these kinds of sites operate:
1. Advertise everything from every brand on your website, and imply that…

Just wanted to chime in to say this is an awesome article. I wish there was more of this stuff (the article, not assholes screwing people over)

Yup. $4.8M to Affinity Development (forgiven):

I’m guessing if I had the social graces and skills to collect money from strangers because my car got smashed during a well known accident, it might be worth a shot.

While I haven’t dealt with insurance there, generally it only pays out the value of the car. In this case, given that it’s an old Subaru, if it’s written off (likely) the potential payout is going to be pretty low. It might be very difficult to find an equivalent vehicle for the price of the payout - and certainly…

I think you should edit that headline. The bridge didn’t destroy the cars. The jackass driving the truck did.

it amazes me that people can’t seem to figure it out.

TV packages have always existed on a subscription model where you pay to watch certain channels,

Look, I get the idea of subscribing to a feature that is in regular development, like, say, level 2 or 3 autonomy. It takes a constant effort to continually improve such features, and it really isn’t any different than a software subscription on a computer I paid for. BUT, the idea of subscribing to a static piece of…

Yeah, I’ve noticed that a lot of features in new cars I look at these days say they come free for a year, or for three years or whatever. In my mind, that makes those features completely worthless. I can’t count on them continuing to work for as long as I own the car, if I do want them to keep working it means I need…

Is it a service, or is it a feature? If it takes effort on their end (the manufacturer or a third party) to continue offering the service, it is hard to make the business case for “buy it once, and we will work for you in perpetuity.” Subscriptions keep a service from becoming a Ponzi scheme where new sales are…

This has nothing to do with capitalism.

“SiriusXM”

Why in the hell wouldn’t I just buy the base model and do an aftermarket update that unlocks all that for next to nothing?

What color is the sky in the world where anyone gives a lonely, mountain-dwelling fuck about your opinion?

I’m genuinely curious.

This guy has always been a piece of human garbage.

I’m not happy that Biden is going to win, but I’m thrilled that Trump is going to lose.

It isn’t just you, but Center-Lefts have their share of law-breaking, too. Dear Leader’s supporters are so infuriating because they smugly don’t understand why THEIR actions are illegal, so it stands out more. Center-Lefts burn shit then look at the camera, point at it, say, “I burned that shit”, and then spray paint…