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sanswork
5mo ago
Your deceptive design link is literally outlining the plan discussed in the rest of this thread. The first one in your deceptive design was: Adobe: Unclear yearly subscription terms and cancellation fees "Apparently monthly subscriptio
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sanswork
5mo ago
The subscription pricing makes it more accessible to consumers where as previously the only people that paid for licenses were companies(and probably only large companies given it was basically always the most popular warez). So they charg
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sanswork
5mo ago
"We will give you access to annual pricing discounts but not require you to pay the full year up front" It's not complex or dramatic.
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sanswork
5mo ago
Why do you feel the need to make up ridiculous numbers?
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sanswork
5mo ago
The notification is telling you of the new price. If you don't do anything at that point then it is the price you agreed on.
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sanswork
5mo ago
Yes, and if you get an annual plan from adobe and pay up front there is no fee for cancelling. The fee is if you get an annual plan with a monthly payment and cancel early. I remember when it was like $600 for photoshop for a single versio
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sanswork
5mo ago
This isn't true though. Again like with the annual plan people are confusing things. I just looked it up and checked a few reddit posts to confirm and heres what's happening. If you cancel in the first 14 days they terminate imm
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sanswork
5mo ago
Why? It's a subscription auto-renew is the default. As for auto-commit why would they change your subscription choices on you without you choosing it?
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sanswork
5mo ago
They let you sign up for an annual discount but still pay monthly. The cancelation fee is if you try to end the annual commitment early. If you just sign up monthly(seriously always do this when you see these offers) there is no cancellat
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sanswork
5mo ago
Appreciate the suggestion but I'm terrible at editing so I just stick with PS because the cost for a month or two when I need it isn't much and it's really easy to find videos walking through exactly what I need to do. Even
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sanswork
5mo ago
Ok so you were on an annual plan to save money and when you cancelled you had to pay an exit fee to account for the annual discount. Seems reasonable to me. They gave you a months notice of the price increase and you didn't cancel unt
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sanswork
5mo ago
Adobe isn't hard to cancel if you sign up for monthly subscriptions. I do it fairly regularly because I need PS in short bursts. A lot of people sign up for discounted annual commitments though then complain when they can't cance
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sanswork
5mo ago
Yup, you save a few dollars per verification on shipping in exchange for spending tens of thousands on training each employee to verify items. Mind you these are retail employees so turnover is going to be high. Also since they need to be
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sanswork
5mo ago
Tightening your belt is a good thing. No disagreement there but it has a hard limit. You can't just keep tightening the belt and growing profit, at some point you have to start revenue expansion again and from what I've seen Gam
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sanswork
5mo ago
I honestly don't know anything about ebay these days to comment on them but many many people have tried to make a business of providing a storefront for ebay in the past and they've basically all failed so I don't think that
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sanswork
5mo ago
The creep-value of keeping your lists is zero. It's no different to a journal or the options you gave. I just delete the ones from mine after a while since they aren't needed and makes it more likely to lose focus on the new ones
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sanswork
5mo ago
Gamestop in Canada isn't owned by Gamestop in the US. They were also historically unprofitable so people might be in the stores but they aren't buying enough.
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sanswork
5mo ago
>A fraction of that profit does come from interest income. More than half of it came from interest income. Gamestop has been unable to grow revenue since Cohen took over, failed initiative after failed initiative. The only thing saving
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sanswork
5mo ago
I have a list in reminders called names so when someone tells me their name as soon as I can use my phone without it being impolite I open it up and add a quick note with the names. - neighbour watering lawn Jack, wife Gemma, daughter Jane
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sanswork
5mo ago
It's not about if one is wrong or not it's about what you can do with it. With a 51% attack you need to have a recent transaction to the wallet you want to attack and have received economic benefit from the transaction already. I
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sanswork
5mo ago
In that case though Paramount offloaded 25% to foreign wealth funds and had Larry Ellison willing to provide guarantee on(according to google) almost $50b of debt. Ryan Cohen is rich but he's not that rich.
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sanswork
5mo ago
I ended up with a host called GoGrid since they were able to offer a mix of dedicated servers and cloud for when we needed to burst and they had space in 365 Main Street SF. I went to visit their team while in town and they took me for a t
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sanswork
5mo ago
There really isn't too much more to it but happy to try and answer any specific questions. I wasn't involved in the business dealings at all so I have no clue why it happened. System was originally written in PHP and I later rewr
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sanswork
5mo ago
For a long time ask.com had one of the only Google ad feeds allowing them to programatically request ads from Google to show on their search pages and for some reason instead of implementing it themselves they used a company I worked for to
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5mo ago
51% attack on bitcoin doesn't let you remove coins from someones wallet it allows you to change which transaction history is considered the real one. So you could send someone bitcoin then do a 51% attack to make the chain without tha
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sanswork
6mo ago
Even though Google provides the software to manage the interaction the publisher is the supplier in this agreement, they tried to defraud the client. No one owes anything to someone that tried to scam them out of money. I also don't s
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6mo ago
If I hire someone to do a job for me and find out they are breaking rules to try and get additional money from me and my clients I don't owe them anything. The scummy behaviour is agreeing to only put the ads on content pages then imme
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OP in this case isn't the customer, they are a supplier who has agreed to terms then decided to go against that agreement in a way that allowed scammers and himself attempt to defraud Googles actual customers. OP isn't the good gu
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sanswork
6mo ago
The person would have agreed to the placement rules when they signed up then went and broke them leading to Google and advertisers being defrauded by a bot. Why would you expect mercy there?
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sanswork
6mo ago
You have to agree to have read the policies when signing up and they've always been pretty clear about placement rules. Not placing ads on non-content pages is a pretty basic rule and would clearly apply to this since a search result
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