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There’s not much to start with, because, well, the title kind of says it all.\u00a0 So, here we go.<\/p>\nThere’s not much to start with, because, well, the title kind of says it all.\u00a0 So, here we go.<\/p>\n
1) Auto-renew:<\/strong>\u00a0 I can manage my payments quite nicely, thank you very much.\u00a0 I don’t need your convenience, which is really you hoping I’ll forget and keep paying for your service long after I’ve stopped using it.<\/p>\n 2) Terms of Service (TOS) without ways to negotiate or discuss:<\/strong>\u00a0 You’re either with us or you’re against us.\u00a0 That’s the attitude.\u00a0 Accept our terms, or go away.\u00a0 Raise your hand if you read the TOS on anything.\u00a0 Yeah, I thought so.\u00a0 I don’t either.\u00a0 I already know pretty much what it’ll be… anything that could possibly go wrong will be in their favor, never mine.<\/p>\n 3) Double standards in law enforcement:<\/strong> In some states police are allowed to use radar, but you’re not allowed to use a radar detector.\u00a0 Should you ever find yourself in a police interrogation room… er, excuse me, interview<\/em> room… the police and prosecutors are legally allowed to lie to you, but you are not legally allowed to lie to them.\u00a0 No, fair is fair, level playing field and all that.<\/p>\n 4) Credit reports and criteria about YOU that you are not allowed to see:<\/strong>\u00a0 Your credit report virtually rules your life.\u00a0 But do you know how it’s determined?\u00a0 I bet ya don’t.\u00a0 Oh, you have some vague idea, and of course if you pay your bills it’ll be better, but deep down hidden in the shadows you don’t know.\u00a0 And you should.\u00a0 Anything about you should be available to you.<\/p>\n A person should be able to copyright them self so that if anyone wants to do anything at all with your information they have to get your permission, agree to your TOS, and pay you a fee.<\/p>\n 5) Buy 2 for $2.00, or 1 at regular price ($1.69):\u00a0<\/strong> I don’t want two hamburgers.\u00a0 I’m only hungry for one hamburger.\u00a0 I’m in a no-win situation with these “deals”.\u00a0 I feel like I’m being screwed either way.\u00a0 If I get two, I feel guilty for wasting food.\u00a0 If I get one, I’m being price gouged.\u00a0 They’ve already stated they’re willing to take a dollar for their burger, so just sell me one for a buck and otherwise leave me alone.<\/p>\n 6) “Convenience” fees:<\/strong>\u00a0 It’s bad enough that you have to pay a fee to your financial institution to pay online, like you’re getting a mother’s note for permission to give them money, but we’ll go for the big enchilada here… concert tickets.\u00a0 Ticketmaster seems to be the worst.\u00a0 They keep adding them on.\u00a0 “Convenience fee”, “facility fee”, “service fee”, fees to print your own tickets, or a fee to have it mailed to you via snail mail.\u00a0 These fees tend to be so overtly bogus that they can’t even think up good names to justify them.<\/p>\n And for your continued entertainment pleasure, here’s a couple blog posts by others specifically about this topic:\u00a0How do I avoid TicketMaster fees?<\/em><\/a> and Ticketmaster’s new blog: ‘We get it — you don’t like service fees’<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n 7) Celebrating “firsts”:<\/strong>\u00a0 Ok, we get it, something “historical” has happened that we will all promptly forget because it’s really not important.\u00a0 All the truly historical “first” have already happened.\u00a0 Let it go.<\/p>\n 8) Companies having websites then making it virtually impossible to contact them or cancel:<\/strong>\u00a0 You get suckered into violating rule #1 above, you agree to auto-deduction from your account.\u00a0 Time passes and you decide you want to cancel, or maybe you just want to give them some feedback, so you go to their website, the same place you signed up, and… wait, where do I find the cancel button?\u00a0 Oh, they hid it from you.<\/p>\n 9) Not answering the question:<\/strong>\u00a0 I don’t know what’s worse, the person who won’t answer the question, or the reporter who lets them get away with it by not pressing the issue.\u00a0 Example…<\/p>\n Reporter:\u00a0 “Senator Blowmoney, was that you we saw driving 90 mph on the freeway last night?”<\/p>\n Senator Blowmoney:\u00a0 “Let me reiterate my full admiration and support for our fine law enforcement officers.\u00a0 Theirs is a very difficult job, and I know that each and every one enforces the law fairly and with integrity.<\/p>\n Reporter:\u00a0 <goes onto another topic><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n Is it just me?\u00a0 Senator Blowmoney didn’t answer the question.\u00a0 And not only didn’t you press the issue, you completely ignored that he didn’t answer the question.\u00a0 What kind of a reporter are you anyway?<\/p>\n 10) Thoughts and prayers:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh do shut up!\u00a0 We get it, you got nothin’ in the way of actual help or solutions or even meaningful sympathy.\u00a0 Spare me.<\/p>\n Now, of course, I am speaking tongue-in cheek. Maybe.\u00a0 As a more-or-less free market advocate, I do not believe these things should literally be against the law, but they are bogus in concept and should end. 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