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I love people that try to make this a black and white case of scam. If this is a scam, so is, say, charging folks 15 cents to send a text message. In both cas
by zaidf 17y ago
I love people that try to make this a black and white case of scam.
If this is a scam, so is, say, charging folks 15 cents to send a text message.
In both cases, the end company ends up making a windfall of money. In both cases the customer knows exactly what he is getting and agrees to it.
- padmapper 17y agoText messages are a scam. Especially when the company also charges you that .15 when you receive a message without consenting to it. And when there are no alternatives and little price competition because it's commonly accepted practice in the industry to make a huge windfall off of texting.
- dasil003 17y agoText messages are totally a scam because of the markup factor... but Swoopo also has the lottery factor. That is the vast majority of people get NOTHING for their $10, $100, $1000. I don't understand why people are trying to defend it on a technicality. Yes, technically it may be legal, however it's ripping stupid people off left and right.
- zaidf 17y agoit's ripping stupid people off left and right It's not ripping off if people clearly know what they are getting into.
- dasil003 17y agoThe thing is they don't. I think most people at HN have been introduced to Swoopo based on articles analyzing just how much of a ripoff it is by running some numbers. To the first-time visitor it is not clear at all that they are basically playing a lottery with a very low payout. Calling it an auction is misleading because in an auction you only pay if you place the winning bid. This is more like a raffle, but it's not labeled as such.