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That is because your shop is offering free samples of your moms cookies and not an unlimited amount of her cookies for free.

oblio 6y ago
Quoting the Big Lebowski: "you're right, but you're still a jerk" :-) Almost every time a "free plan" or an "unlimited plan" is cut off (BTW, in life there is no "unlimited" anything, just use common sense), it's not because some random person uses 10-50-100% more than what the person offering it thought everyone would use. It's more like 1000%-10000%. And that's definitely being a sociopath/jerk. Data hoarders are jerks, for example, no way around that. There's almost no rational way to explain it, it's just an addiction.
- anoncake 6y ago
  Exactly. There is no unlimited anything, so use common sense and stop offering it. I don't pay for what you think I'll use, I pay for the thing you said you sold me. If you make an offer, it's not my job to second-guess you and evaluate if that offer makes business sense to you. It's not sociopathic to have no empathy towards a for-profit corporation. Amazon is not a person.
- phjesusthatguy3 6y ago
  > Almost every time a "free plan" or an "unlimited plan" is cut off (BTW, in life there is no "unlimited" anything, just use common sense) Corporations offering "unlimited" plans with limits are lying, plan and simple. They should use a word that doesn't imply they're offering something that they're not. No, I'm not going to come up with an alternative, that's not my job.
- singemonkey 6y ago
  Such a weird take on the situation. Why do you think it's ok for company to offer unlimited services knowing that it's not really unlimited? Shouldn't you be advocating for companies to be more truthful in their marketing?
- ksec 6y ago
  Yes, but why cant companies stop doing business with these jerks just to keep everyone else happy? Or limit their speed of uploading or downloading or whatever limitation to the point it is not useable? It is the same with Mobile plan's Unlimited Data. 20-30GB are fine. Carrier even put up with 100-200GB per month. Because that is the average Data used for Home Broadband. But when carrier said they stop providing services to said customers because they were using 500 or even 1000+GB per month you really cant feel sympathetic to those people. Some argue why not just but an arbitrary number instead of unlimited. But consumer wants unlimited so they dont feel they are limited. I know that sounds stupid but it is the default consumer behaviour.

oblio 6y ago

Quoting the Big Lebowski: "you're right, but you're still a jerk" :-) Almost every time a "free plan" or an "unlimited plan" is cut off (BTW, in life there is no "unlimited" anything, just use common sense), it's not because some random person uses 10-50-100% more than what the person offering it thought everyone would use. It's more like 1000%-10000%. And that's definitely being a sociopath/jerk. Data hoarders are jerks, for example, no way around that. There's almost no rational way to explain it, it's just an addiction.

anoncake 6y ago
Exactly. There is no unlimited anything, so use common sense and stop offering it. I don't pay for what you think I'll use, I pay for the thing you said you sold me. If you make an offer, it's not my job to second-guess you and evaluate if that offer makes business sense to you. It's not sociopathic to have no empathy towards a for-profit corporation. Amazon is not a person.
phjesusthatguy3 6y ago
> Almost every time a "free plan" or an "unlimited plan" is cut off (BTW, in life there is no "unlimited" anything, just use common sense) Corporations offering "unlimited" plans with limits are lying, plan and simple. They should use a word that doesn't imply they're offering something that they're not. No, I'm not going to come up with an alternative, that's not my job.
singemonkey 6y ago
Such a weird take on the situation. Why do you think it's ok for company to offer unlimited services knowing that it's not really unlimited? Shouldn't you be advocating for companies to be more truthful in their marketing?
ksec 6y ago
Yes, but why cant companies stop doing business with these jerks just to keep everyone else happy? Or limit their speed of uploading or downloading or whatever limitation to the point it is not useable? It is the same with Mobile plan's Unlimited Data. 20-30GB are fine. Carrier even put up with 100-200GB per month. Because that is the average Data used for Home Broadband. But when carrier said they stop providing services to said customers because they were using 500 or even 1000+GB per month you really cant feel sympathetic to those people. Some argue why not just but an arbitrary number instead of unlimited. But consumer wants unlimited so they dont feel they are limited. I know that sounds stupid but it is the default consumer behaviour.