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Customers who say “I'll buy that” and then don't
- spoils19 4y agoI think we should do something to hold those customers accountable. If corporations are people and we hold them accountable, why not customers who lie?
- paulryanrogers 4y agoB2C regulations will make enforcement impossible if not illegal. People can change their minds. If you're just asking then it's not a binding contract, it's a survey.
- ecf 4y agoInstagram has a new report option “I’ve already bought an item in this ad” or something similar. I haven’t played baseball or softball in nearly a decade, but it didn’t stop them from spamming my page with adverts for bats. Selected the option and haven’t seen an ad for bats since. I predict Meta will be out of business in ten years if this is still the best targeted advertising tech they can can squeeze out of the engineers who sold their soul to work on that monstrosity.
- SQueeeeeL 4y agoIt's a wonderful prediction and would be true if having access to an established network and large amounts of capital didn't confer an advantage, but really companies tech only has to be good until they've driven all the small upstarts out of the field.
- steponlego 4y agoWe never sign up for a free trial of anything if it involves giving more than a login and password which is made up on the spot, and an auto-generated throwaway email. Any personally identifiable or corporate information is worth money, especially a credit card number. With a credit card number and a (non-throwaway) email, any startup now has enough information to make a deal with a data broker and sell our information. This is considered a data breach for some employers. I think you can see by Mr. Steinberg's article that you need to protect yourself and your company.