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Yes it’s not technically a scam because it’s legal. But it has scam smells: layering, misdirection, lock-in, very fine print, gamification, adjacent complex so
by burnto 6mo ago
Yes it’s not technically a scam because it’s legal.
But it has scam smells: layering, misdirection, lock-in, very fine print, gamification, adjacent complex social media apparatuses.
I’d place it near MLMs, loot boxes, timeshares, robux, liquidity mining.
- borski 6mo agoIt’s not nearly as complicated as you make it out to be, and the literal point of what I posted is to try and simplify it. An MLM or timeshare it is not. Yes, it has gotten harder than it was a decade ago. But it is far from a “scam”
- powvans 6mo agoYeah, flying my family of 5 to Hawaii using skymiles accrued on my Amex. Totally a scam. They’re basically interchangeable with cash. I don’t get the issue. The main frustration I have is that I cant buy myself a ticket with cash and then pay skymiles for my child. If they weren’t of an age that they must be on the same reservation it wouldn’t matter. Feels more like a limitation of Delta’s abacus that sits behind their mobile app.