We live in a society that monetizes anything it can. We asked – what are the biggest everyday cons we have let slip under the radar?
Extra Cell Phone Charges
“A lot of people make payments on their phone, get insurance for their phone, and have the actual service all looped into their cell phone bill. Kind of insane.”
Gas Prices
“The nine-tenths addendum on gas prices. More a gimmick than a scam, but it’s become so institutionalized nobody notices it.”
Sports Tickets
“I bought two tickets to a hockey game last night, listed at $49 per, never once were any other charges or anything listed out, but I still expected it. The final charge was $150.”
Certain Subscription Packages
“For certain products, users don’t need to download a new version every month in order to keep using it. That’s where I feel like it’s a scam since I know that I won’t get any worthwhile updates while on the subscription, so I’m essentially paying for nothing.”
Paywalls
“My friend has a hybrid, and she was telling me she has to pay a subscription fee for supercharging, self-driving, etc. Why is that a thing on a car you paid 40K+ for?!?”
The Wedding Industry
“You want a big cake? That’s $250. Oh, it’s for a wedding? In that case, the same cake is $2,500.”
The Wedding Industry
“A one-hour photo session went from $130 to $780 as soon as he found out it was for after a wedding.”
Spyware
“It used to be considered a serious nuisance in the early 2000s. Now basically everyone has spyware on their phone or other devices and we just sort of accept it.”
Food Delivery Charges
“Food delivery apps like Uber Eats. It would be fine if they just added on delivery charges, but typically they’ll add on a bunch of other fees on top of inflating the actual menu prices.”
Bank Fees on Your Own Money
“I remember being charged for not having enough transactions within a month.”
Bank Fees on Your Own Money
Another user shared, “I once had a savings account that charged me a fee for having less than $500 in the account. I was a minor at the time.”
Scam Call Centers
“Scam call centers have become such a problem that it’s made people intrinsically distrustful towards certain accents – which hurts the legitimate contact centers in that region.
Scam Call Centers
It is honestly sickening how some of these scams operate and how they prey on the elderly and the tech illiterate.”
Salary Jobs With No Overtime Pay
“You’re expected to work 50-60 hours a week, but your pay is compared to an hourly rate where the work week is only 40 hours.
Salary Jobs With No Overtime Pay
“You are always on call and if they need you to come in on a holiday or weekend, you have to. No added pay.”
Mega Churches
“Televangelists too, though maybe most recognize them as scammers.”
Mega Churches
“‘For only 5000$ we can heal this boy”
Big Pharma
“Pharma can do s*** like making things like insulin or asthma meds super expensive for no reason.”
Big Pharma
“In the case of asthma meds that went generic, they made the device that sprays it super expensive and not optional to make people pay.”
Religious Cults
“They hide behind the ‘no, you can’t persecute religion,’ but they’re scamming and brainwashing people.”
Another user agreed: “Absolutely. Take, for example, Scientology, which was also a front for a tax-free real estate corporation.”
Alternative Pharma
“If it hasn’t been shown to be effective via rigorous clinical trials, then it’s no better than a placebo, and you are wasting your money.”
Credit
“My first credit card had no benefits and a $200 limit because I had no credit. It took me a year to get a better card, and of course I stopped using my first one.”
Credit
“My bank canceled my first card from non-use and the hit to my credit age caused my score to go down. And because of that, they lowered my credit score and charged me a higher rate.”
Bottled Water
“Someone said recently that you’re paying for the bottles, not the water, and that made me do a double-take.”
Stagnancy
“Older generations have shaped society in a way that makes them retain all their accumulated wealth while capitalizing on it, meanwhile keeping wages stagnant, so they protect their accumulated hoard from inflation at the expense of having younger generations have low-income wages.”
Education Tuition
“You’re 18, you walk into a bank asking to start a business, and you need a loan for 50K, they laugh. You’re 18. You request a 50K loan for school, and they hand it out with little to no significant education on what that 50K means.”
“Pyramid Schemes”
MLM/Pyramid Schemes. “It’s so hard to tell my friends I won’t buy their product because the company they’re “working for” is ripping them off.”
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