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Also unethical is not automatically given them a refund, and then verbally trying to humiliate them over their choice of reading when they request one.
by araneae 16y ago
Also unethical is not automatically given them a refund, and then verbally trying to humiliate them over their choice of reading when they request one.
- rbanffy 16y agoIt's really easy to imagine something like "what would your kids do if they found out what you have been reading?"
- roel_v 16y agoThere's this story, I don't know if it's true, of a business who used to sell gay sex toys (I don't know what is specifically 'gay' about it, let's gloss over this for the sake of the story) from the back of magazine covers. Except they didn't have any inventory or anything - their entire business was to collect payments, guaranteeing 'discrete packaging' etc in the ads; but then call the customer and tell them 'we're out of stock, but we can send you a letter with our logo on it, and when you fill in the form in that letter, we'll send you a cheque from Gay Sex Toys Inc made out to you to reimburse you'. Their business floated on people who didn't want those letters or didn't want to hand in that kind of cheques to their local banks and who just left it at that.
- rmc 16y agoCredit cards are great for protecting the customer from that sort of scam.
- ryanricard 16y agoYou might have heard it from the movie Lock, Stock, and two Smoking Barrels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjj8eMNxivM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjj8eMNxivM (warning: strong language) I'd love to know if someone's actually run a scam like that at some point. Seems like a clever hack, at least it would be before the days of ubiquitous credit cards and online banking.
- apaulsmith 16y agoThat's from the film Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120735/quotes?qt0344512 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120735/quotes?qt0344512 Not sure if it was original when included in the script or not.