[Rules p.1] Things that annoy you guys. 100 percent. Not gonna lie

jawafour wrote:I feel a bit old saying this, but... why is everything moving towards "pay constantly"? Oh, you want to get the new MS Office? Sure, pay £6 a month. You are going to try out Adobe Photoshop? Yes, £10 a month. Open a bank account? It's £6 a month. Use that "call block" service? £5 a month. And, of course, they can choose to alter the payable amount whenever they feel like it.

Grumble... groan... grrr.

Because enough people will forget they're subscribed to something and not register £5-10 a month leaving their bank account as being big enough to worry about.

Cuttooth wrote:Because enough people will forget they're subscribed to something and not register £5-10 a month leaving their bank account as being big enough to worry about.

Oh, definitely, Cut. It's a way of getting people to pay out large amounts over time without realising

. And everything is going that way

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Things like Amazon offering free 2-to-3 day delivery... and then getting millions of folk to pay out £80 each year... for next day delivery. Or, pay Sky around £80 each month and then pay extra to rent films. Every product and service is being broken down into smaller bits for higher charging. And the customer doesn't actually own anything.

I wondered if I was just being (more of) a grumpy old man but, no, I think I'm just waking up to reality.

I don't mind Amazon Prime given the extras you get with that on top of the free next day delivery like the free Twitch Prime sup every month (worth £5.99 a month I think?) and the Prime Video content.. The Adobe thing is annoying though, we get to use their stuff for free at college but have to pay for our own subscriptions if we want to use it at home

From a business point of view, it makes sense. Why charge a one-off fee of £150 to access a piece of software when you could charge £10 a month indefinitely for the same thing?
It's what the whole software-as-a-service model is built on.

From a consumer point of view it sucks though, and it's another example of things shifting so that the focus is all on revenue rather than having a balance between income and what's good for the customer. It's like with insurance policies and utility bills - loyal customers aren't rewarded anymore, they're basically penalised and taken advantage of with constant price increases. It's the new customers who get the best deals and the lower prices, and the consumer's forced to shop around to avoid being ripped off each year. It puts the burden onto the consumer rather than the business having to worry about retaining customers, and they know that a lot of people are too lazy to bother changing and shopping around.

Software and other services are going the same way - they want them to be services and utilities that you need and rely on, and that they can continually charge you for.

Games will go the same way in the end, to some degree. Why charge £50 for a game when you charge for the on-going access to it, along with other extras, each of which also need to be paid for. Then as the model grows, the price increases come, and the market becomes more fragmented, customers will need multiple subscriptions to access what they had before via one. You can see that already happening with things like football rights and TV services.

The convoluted nature of Amazon's Orders, Order Details and Subscribe and Save pages.

I ordered some Clipper tea and a few other items under their Subscribe and Save service and on the Orders page they've dispatched the tea (but nothing else) and it's arriving this week. So that's the first thing I don't like - rather than one box full of items as if doing a normal grocery shop, things are sent out separately which means you've got to be in at multiple times. Impractical. But these items are listed twice on the Orders page (the other being September). You go to the Order Details page and it gives you the discounted prices amongst all the other price promotions they love to segment and then deduct. The actual price isn't listed on the Orders page, rather their advertised standard price. You go to the Subscribe and Save page and the current orders for August aren't listed at all, instead putting it at September. So they're going to send it to me twice, presumably. It's all so unclear. The Orders page is telling me I've got two orders now coming, whereas the S&S Your Upcoming Deliveries page just the one. Why isn't that August delivery, the intitual delivery, also there on that page.

All the while, I've had to re-login twice because you stay logged into Amazon too long (about 10 minutes it appears to be) and it now automatically logs you back out again.

It just all reminds me of the horrendous Sports Direct website where they try and slip in all these shitty practices so you've accidentally paid more for something you didn't want. Add on top of that, the delivery charges. There is a list of 6 delivery options, paid is set to default, but just above it is another option to remove the charge, which wasn't clear they added in the first place, and above that FREE options linked to Prime. Before you get to that page however there is an Amazon Prime delivery landing page, with a really small 'no thanks' link button underneath. BBC, ITV and C4 programmes have criticised them for this before (people sign up to Prime not realising they've done so) and Amazon promised to make it clearer. Like hell they have.

LOL is it Friday yet Hun xxxxxx

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People parking around blind corners on roads when youre not supposed to be near a junction. It often happens at the start of my cycle ride to work in the morning. This bullshit right here:

I'm approaching with that on my left, and it's totally blind, so I come around the corner often to be met with a parked car, or on some occasions a car driving down past that white house around the corner on the wrong side of the road almost hitting me. On the way back it also means going uphill and turning out is often blind, plus people turning in there from the main road like to cut the corner completely often forcing me to stop to avoid being pasted across their windscreen.

that is strawberry floating awful :lol:

are there no parking restrictions on that road?

I have no clue how they do it, but the spoofing of real company phone numbers and text messages. The other month it was a message purporting to be my local council claiming I had unpaid council tax and this morning a number registered to Thames Water (0800 980 8800). You contact them directly however and there’s no issue and they never rang.

A number of years ago it used to be insurance companies pretending to be Sky, but this is worse as they’re somehow able to get genuine phone numbers to show up on caller display.

KK wrote:I have no clue how they do it, but the spoofing of real company phone numbers and text messages. The other month it was a message purporting to be my local council claiming I had unpaid council tax and this morning a number registered to Thames Water (0800 980 8800). You contact them directly however and there’s no issue and they never rang.

A number of years ago it used to be insurance companies pretending to be Sky, but this is worse as they’re somehow able to get genuine phone numbers to show up on caller display.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID ... nd_methods

It's probably illegal but easy enough to do

Took in a package for a neighbour yesterday, and the guy rings our doorbell at HALF PAST TEN AT NIGHT to collect it. strawberry floating maniac, he knows we've got young kids asleep upstairs too and he was pretty loud in general "FANKS MATE CHEERS YEAH NICE ONE BYE"

Twat.

Shitty Christmas gooseberry fool in strawberry floating August.

Pedz wrote:Shitty Christmas gooseberry fool in strawberry floating August.

It's Christmas Pedz, it's the time for miracles, so be of good cheer.

This thread can absolutely strawberry float off

very meta. nice.

To bring back the subject of monthly payment cons: Pet Insurance.

Year on year, they jack mine up by a fiver a month, and I can't do a damn thing about it. Petplan will cover repeat claims on the same conditions so long as I stay with them, but new policies don't pay out on existing conditions, meaning I can't shop around like I would with car insurance, and Petplan basically have me by the balls and can charge me whatever the strawberry float they like.

It's all a racket, the thieving twats.

Pedz wrote:Shitty Christmas gooseberry fool in strawberry floating August.

o/

Ironhide wrote:
Pedz wrote:Shitty Christmas gooseberry fool in strawberry floating August.

o/

\o

Minty14 wrote:This thread can absolutely strawberry float off

Wait, this isn't the Xmas hype thread.

This thread is alright :wub:

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