People Call Out 40 Products That Are Huge Scams Yet People Still Like Them For Some Reason

They did this very thing back in 1980 with cable tv..

It used to be everyone dropped cable because you could save money by streaming. Now, they all are so expensive that it's about as much as cable. Spend more to watch more unoriginal remakes or reruns that you used to be able to watch free.

wich ones have adds??

Yep…..Max

In Germany, I paid sky 20€ ever month to have ads between every episode of their streaming. You can have the exact same movies and series with Wow (who is also from sky) for 8.99 monthly, the difference is that you can watch normal tv Programm with the "normal" sky, which I rarely did.

And the fact that lab "grown" diamonds are bringing down the price of organic diamonds is poetic justice and hilarious. Fu¢k De Beers. Earth raping, slave labor practicing, price inflating, corrupt a******s.

Oh My God yes!!! I learned this on a cruise when I sat in on a talk being given by ship staff discussing things to look for and to watch out for when we disembark at the next stop the next day. Btw, I do highly recommend attending these talks. You glean very useful information to help you plan for any shopping you plan to do at each port of call and they always include coupons and vouchers for discounts and free stuff that and you won’t receive these coupons and vouchers if you don’t attend. Anyway, they and several jewelry stores told us about how much of a rip off diamonds are. They are actually super abundant, and their pricing structure is due to enormous greed.

We can literally make them it's a scam and honestly blood money we really need to do away with the diamond industry

So dumb. Rhinestones/crystals are just as sparkly. Nothing but a status symbol that depreciates like a car, but has no useful function.

i have real and fake diamonds, and can't tell the difference, except in price. wish i'd known that earlier in life. could've saved a lot of money.

It's an American thing. Here people get wages and tip is a bonus on how well was the service and nothing else

Unfortunately the system (as usual) is set up to screw the person doing the actual work. I will continue tipping but only in cash given directly to the employee. BTW, does anyone remember the first months of covid when the only take-out you could find was pizza? Apparently fast food workers were considered "essential workers". They deserve respect.

To be fair, paying the employees has always been on the patron. No one gets paid if no one spends money there. Some people love the tip system, others hate it. That said: tip in cash and reference it as "cash gift" on your receipt. No, cash gifts are not reportable income in the US unless they exceed $17,000 from a single person.

It would end up cheaper to pay them at least minimum wage and mark up the food, avoiding the entire tipping issue. What I truly hate is when they want you to tip when they are already paid non-tipping wages. [Starbucks]

The problem with tipped jobs is the law assumes *every* customer will tip therefore bringing the pay up to minimum wage. That's how restaurants get away with underpaying their staff.

Add mental on there for never being considered

I sure wish the VA covered teeth. Most of us ground them down a bit over several deployments...... I'm grateful for the healthcare, but yeah, aren't teeth part of you? Like, WTF?

Dental insurance is a joke. It's more like a discount plan than anything else. I just had a back tooth pulled (abscess from a cracked tooth- happened on a Friday and by Sunday, my jaw looked like I was smuggling walnuts) and even with dental insurance, it was $250. Without it would have been $415.... right at Christmas, too.

The right wing has convinced America that Universal healthcare would collapse the economy. Thanks Insurance lobbyists and gullible republicans! Here are your kick-backs!

Where I live you everyone has one, mandatory, basic health insurance which will cover most things. You can add packages though, such as dental, a larger number of physical therapy treatments and such.

It makes the hairs on my neck stand up when I overhear some stay-at-home Mum say she's going to "lose the baby weight by doing a juice detox".. Like, all you're going to do is introduce a whole load more fructose into your system and won't lose any weight, but you do you girl...

If you want to drink anything to make you healthier, drink water.

Especially the colon cleanses. Those can actually have a (temporary) adverse effect on health since they don't differentiate between harmful and beneficial gut bacteria. Yes, there are bacteria in your colon that are essential to good health. By cleaning out ALL bacteria, the benefits are lost until they repopulate.

Some of them actually just taste good

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While true, does that also mean we can add most processed food in America, given that it's effectively poison?

Ah, the trickle down theory. As it turns out, the only thing trickling down is getting peed on.

Reaganomics trickle down economics! People still vote for this absurdity, all the while going bankrupt when they break a leg or get diabetes. SMH.

You mean "trickle down economics"? That would only work if the rich shared their tax breaks with their employees instead of their shareholders.

Trickle down economics. Money doesn't 'trickle down' on our heads, but something else does...

By now those of us with functioning brains have realized whats actually "trickling" down us. The rich have no desire to pay their proportionate share of taxes. They now strive to buy off our governance to seal the deal. This will surely end with civil war

Monopolies.