50 “Massive” Scams That “Everyone Buys Into”, According To These Internet Users

Amazon Prime! I had paid for a year upfront then halfway through the year they announce that I’m now getting ads and if I don’t want to see ads I need to pay an additional subscription! Criminals!

Amazon Prime is absolutely horrible for this. They now want additional money to get rid of ads. It’s so insanely crooked and greedy.

BP take note, there needs to be a 1 upvote button, a 5 and 10 upvote button…this one would receive an automatic 10.

I havecp abandoned YouTube for the sane reason! TOO MUCH!

Netflix just did the same. Pay more for no commercials. Bastids.

This!!!

America's per-capita spending on healthcare surpasses most (maybe even all) other Westernized nations, even those with socialized healthcare (e.g. Canada, Australia, Britain, France, etc.). This is despite many people saying socialized healthcare is 'too expensive'. The reason why American spends way more money for less access is because most of the money goes towards the layers of bureaucracy (especially insurance companies) that manage people's ability to access the healthcare. Oh, and lobbying politicians to protect that system. It's financial foolishness.

And for-profit insurance companies.

My friend is a nurse. She got a job about a year ago in a hospital after she finished school. The hospital actually sends nurses home if there are too few patients! She has anywhere from 6-9 patience in her 12 hour shift to take care of. If the number falls below 6, the hospital starts to cut hours! That is ridiculous! She is already ready to leave that job! And they can't find enough nurses. Ridiculous!

Expensive laxatives, mostly.

The most helpful part of the tea is the water, because being hydrated helps your kidneys and liver function. The other ingredients may be harmful because these things are shockingly barely regulated.

But they do a remarkable job of sucking money from the wallet of the gullible

A friend says the potato on the foot is scientifically proven because the potato turns black after several hours, which proves the toxins are being absorbed. I asked her if the potato tuns black anyway since it's being oxidized, and she says that's because it's aborbing toxins from the air too... I gave up

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While I don't subscribe to the notion that detox teas will work, there are some teas that do help to remove toxicity from your body. Some teas do include antioxidants, which are beneficial. Coffee can have benefits as well. But It mostly comes down to the fact that they are both diuretic, and make you pee more.

L. Ron Hubbard was a science fiction writer. He was quoted telling a science fiction convention in 1948: "Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion."

Any religion. The wealth of the church is unfathomable and all the sell is an after life.

Why write novels, when you can start a religion, make people believe something, AND go tax free.

Just read the Wikipedia article on Scientology , it reads like a science fiction novel

The novel Battlefield Earth, not the movie, gives him my forgiveness for Scientology.

And all the other "competing" ticket places they own

Ugh, I HAD to use Ticketmaster for tickets to an event and they have a new 'insurance' thing so if you can't go to your event for whatever SPECIFIC reasons, you can buy insurance to get your money back The tickets I purchased were only $14 each and the stupid insurance was like $29.95 Canadian PER TICKET (I got 3 tickets)....ummm, on the off chance something happens I will just eat the $42 dollars thanks!

Not so much the companies but the disgusting new trend of "dynamic pricing" so the more people in the queue, the higher the ticket price

aka ticketbastard or ticketdisaster

They’re so large and quite ugly.

Nope. My 13 year old gave into the hype.. reverted back to a Marshalls purchased hydrapeak “at least these don’t leak”

I have one. It was a Christmas present from my oldest daughter. I like it because it keeps my drink cold for hours. I would not pay more that $50 for it

I use metal water bottles cause I work outside. I got a 62 Oz nice quality one WITH an over the shoulder carrier at Walmart for less than 30 bucks. And working outside, around animals, I'd never buy a cup with just an open straw, I need either a folding one or one with a cover. Stanley's are so ugly and overpriced.

I like my Stanley. It actually keeps my ice from melting

Lockdown showed who was really essential. And did anything change...

The people that we expect to always be there are under-appreciated. I would add in grocery clerks/stockers, wait-staff, mail delivers/UPS/FedEx/Amazon (although the last are far too ubiquitous )

At my job, we have been without a Director of IT for 4 months and without an IT manager for 5 1/2 months. The department is basically running itself. But they wont promote the person doing most of the work because they are remote.

"should pay dramatically less"?

And the strangeness of the fact that checking your credit score can sometimes lower it , and on some apps you just press a button to "boost" it