Have you ever noticed that nearly every single consumer transaction is a scam?

I assume you are twelve to just be realizing that life is a series of scams.

Dear OP, we do love in a snake oil salesmen based society. The moment we are born we are groomed to become easy prey for the snake oil salesmen of this world promising to fix us, our issuse, and our problems.

Sorry, we do LIVE in a snake oil salesmen driven society.

Once you become less interested in buying and gain wisdom (i.e. once you get old) marketers ignore you completely.

You negotiate you cable/satellite bill. They give you multiple “ temporary discount”, which expire at different times. So, your bill actually climbs over time to ridiculous amount. Now, you just pay, or have to go through the whole ordeal again. Rinse and repeat.

Anytime you deal with att on the phone, there will always be an “ error” in its favor, requiring another torturous call or three to straighten it out. Att biggest scammers on the planet and yet allowed to do so by the government

OP is right. Even small businesses who start out truly wanting to be on the square, end up doing scammy things after a few years. I guess they feel they have to in order to compete.

Dollar Tree is a scam too. It’s not $1, it’s $1 plus tax in most States.

Yes. Companies with huge amount of resources use physchological data to manipulate us into buying more and beyond our means. Anyone remember sub-prime mortgages of the early 2000s?

Apple created a software update to slow down older phones to push people into new phones.

Everything is a racket.

R9 yup, my iPhone XS is running slower than ever. When the contract ends, no more Apple for me.

I just ran an errand with three stops and got scammed three times, once at every stop I made. I got scammed at the Burger King, scammed at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, and scammed at the fish market.

Scam, scam, scam.

Just wait until OP discovers the evils of Bug Pharma.

* Big Pharma (but maybe the other as well)

It is true. As income disparity increases quality has dropped across the board and conglomerates steal while hiding behind useless customer service responses. Its all a big grift now in the USA.

Where's the lie? Ranges from easy to hard to ID.

Spectrum owns this thread. They saturate the airwaves with their commercials, and release several new ads weekly; meanwhile the cable service and programming couldn't be worse. I might as well just send their ad agency a monthly check.

I fucking hate Spectrum!

"Never give a sucker an even break and never smarten up a chump."

How did u get scammed at Burger King r11?

Some of these things aren't scams -- a scam is a misrepresentation.

Dollar Tree isn't lying about prices being $1. They don't say or even imply that you'll only PAY $1 for everything, they just say that the PRICE is $1 -- if the law then adds sales tax and/or a bottle deposit for soda, that's not part of the PRICE, it's a separate tax or deposit (which the store is required to collect from you but must then turn over to the government).

Mortgage lenders that charge a service fee if you pay by debit or credit card aren't misrepresenting anything (as long as they tell you up front that you'll be charged that fee), they're just recovering the expense that they'll incur by accepting payment in that form instead of requiring a check.

Products that are sold in a familiar looking package that contains less than it used to aren't misrepresenting the size as long as they print the accurate weight on the label -- if you don't bother to read the label because the picture on the bag is the same cute kittykat it always was, that's your own decision.

The world is full of con artists who are trying to trick you but not everyone is like Trump. Most people in the world of commerce may be greedy but that's not the same as being dishonest.

R5, I remember getting phone bills with 900-numbers on them. I lived alone and was at work when these calls were supposedly made. Customer service called it a “computer error” and cheerfully removed the charges. It was only because I checked the phone bill carefully every month that I caught on. How many people do that? And now they can just zap a payment. Back then I wrote a check and balanced a checkbook.

Has anyone ever gotten an unsolicited Email that wasn't a scam. Even one?

R19 loves shit.

Everything going towards the rental model. My biggest pet peeve. And the assholes I unfortunately chose to repair my house after a storm. What a bunch of scam artists. By I presume all the rest of them are too.