30 Examples Of “100% Scams” Which People Nevertheless Aren’t Aware Of, As Shared By Members Of This Online Group

Yes. I think this is a scam. Poor dental care has been proven to cause many other illnesses and both dental and eye care can give very early indications for other illnesses. They should be included.

Or anything else.

Wait until you require a medicine that has no generic equivalent and your portion of the cost is thousands of dollars!

Or hearing aids.

... or hearing aids!

Jesus Christ how many times is bored panda going to write about this? And for the record it’s not just the United States that has a tipping culture. It’s actually much worse in Mexico. All of you Non native North Americans let it go already! Our culture is different than yours! Shocking I know!

Boomer here. Over the years I've watched the system change the expectation that 10% was generous. Then 10-15%. Then 15-20%. Now sometimes I see 20-25%. The justification when there is one is something like, "but costs of living have gone up". Well.... so have the cost of meals. A 15% tip on a meal is a lot more $$ than it used to be years ago. Pay your workers a livable wage and let me tip for good service the way I used to do years ago.

It's spilled over into Canada as well... however employees still get paid livable wages. I have a friend who waitressed at a popular restaurant. Once she'd received her teaching degree, it took 5-6 years before she earned as much as a teach as she was as a waitress (after tips).

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And then you're a bad person if you don't tip, and not the employer who isn't paying their employees a livable salary. More than that, it's an excuse for people to treat you poorly if you don't tip. It's crazy, because you don't tip in all but only service. why not teachers? or nurses? garbage collectors?

Tipping has gone crazy!! Tipping should only be used as a reward for good service. Think of it as a car, would you pay the same amount for a luxury car vs an old junkie car (excellent service vs bad service)? I once went to a donut shop where one person bagged the donut I request, passed it to the next person to ring me up, either barely spoke, then had to click a button for a pre-calculated tip; hole interaction took two minutes which effectively cost more than I make in two minutes.

An absolute abomination. Brought to you by the Republican Party.

This is ridiculous. In my state (U.S.), our juvenile detention centers are for profit.

American prisons are for profit ? What ?! That's crazy ! It sounds like human trafficking to me.

This, a thousand times. Prison are sort of a "forced" hotel. They make money on occupancy. Would an hotel do their very best to make sure no guests ever want to come back? Yet that's what prisons should do. Private prisons are actually expected to work against their profit motive, which is absurd. How this ever became a thing, how no one stopped for a second to say "This makes no sense" is beyond me.

I hate this so much. I play Xbox and you need Xbox live gold to even talk to friends or start a party and you pay $9.99 a month. $14.99 a month for Game Pass Ultimate. Please let us enjoy something without paying a damn subscription.

If I don't own it, I don't buy it!

I subscribed to my local library.

YES. MS Office 97 served my casual needs for years. I switched to Office 2003 pro when it was given to me for free (I worked in IT). It also served me for years. For compatibility with windows 10 I was forced to purchase Office home and student 2019. It was not subscription thankfully but I expect the day will come when for some BS reason I am forced to upgrade again. Meanwhile I would like to purchase Photoshop for casual use but I don't want a subscription so am considering one of the PS knock offs.

A second Yessssss. Sometimes you want to just check out a site to see what it offers.

Primarily in America where we keep re-electing politicians who block every government program that helps people. But there seems to be plenty of extra money for the military.

Going thru this right now, my husband needs a medical device that retails for $1000. This is just a replacement for the one he has that is 20 years old. The insurance says you need to go to the Dr pay the co pay fort him to say yes you need it, oh wait now we want a test pay the co pay for that. Ok you are approved BUT you have a $ 500 deductible you have to pay first , THEN you rent this device for a year for us to see if you are actually going to use it. Even though you have one for over 25 years. So by putting it through my insurance I am paying more than retail Oh also we will deduct 380 a month from your check for the pleasure of having our health insurnace

Companies used to pay worker's insurance up until about the late 60s or mid 70s. When companies negotiated Union contracts, the cost of insurance wasn't a factor at all, the company simply covered insurance. Once the insurance companies started raising their prices to make even more profits, the workers had to suddenly pay a small amount for the insurance. Well, we all know how that turned out. Thanks again Republicans

We can't afford insurance being self employed. My husband needs some scan next week that averages $6K. You'd think at least it could be a little cheaper with 0 insurance, but the for profit health system here in the US doesn't give a s**t if any of us live or die. I hate it here

Due to my income I am currently on state medical and grateful for it. But prior to that I was paying $250 / month for an umbrella policy with a $5,000 deductible. Then they inform me the rate is going up to $550 / month and the deductible raised to $7,5000. I had been with them for several years and never had a claim.

In this time and age do we need to print? I've been doing fine without a printer for a long time now. Got tired of buying ink. It seems to evaporate all by itself.

Most people do not actually need a color printer. Buy a laser printer. powdered toner is cheaper per page and does not dry out. Also HP printers are POS these days. I made that jump about six years ago and so glad I did. Color lasers are available too for much less than they used to cost.. Continuous ink (inkjet style) printers are also becoming a thing where you buy a bottle of ink and refill the hopper. Not as common yet but they are out there. It is all a designed marketing scam. Kodak polaroid cameras and the film, razor blade handles and the cartridges, ink jet printers and the ink cartridges. All are sold cheap to get you hooked on the supplies. All of this is out there as public information if you search on it. Not just "conspiracy theories". It is just a (greedy) marketing practice.

Yep. Just throw the whole thing out and buy a new one—same price, if not cheaper.

My only comfort at this point is that I use my printer so rarely that I know I won't run out anytime soon.

I recommend HP "Instant Ink" - still a scam, but if you do a reasonable amount of printing then it's at least a cheaper scam than buying it.

If it's a credit card, then it's because the credit card companies charge a fee for processing payments, and the retailer doesn't want to absorb the cost. Usually you only see this at smaller (non-chain) stores or gas stations, unless you're referring to something else?

We haven't paid one red cent in fees for electronic payments. Unless you're talking about PayPal and sites like it.

Never pay convenience fees. Make it decidedly inconvenient for those that try to charge them

Now it's WHICH card you use. My husband's bank is a "visa" bank I was told when I tried to pay his loan note with my "mastercard" debit card. They said it would be a huge (like 15 dollars) fee if I paid it with a "mastercard". I was at the bank at the time, not online. However, I could pay the note with no fee using a check from the same account. A CHECK! Go figure. I paid with a checkbook I've been toting around in my wallet for 10 years and never needed to use before.

My hometown years ago introduced option to pay for parking via SMS. Except it was few cents more that from meter. The reasoning was absurd - it's a "convenience" fee for people. Like not to carry stupid coins in pocket or looking for stupid machine.

Diamond rings are the real scam

Our engagement rings we're 10€ each. A matching pair of bronze rings, bought at medivial reenactment festival. Perfect fit for us and our lifestyle at the time. We upgraded to 25€ silver rings for our 10th anniversary.

@Nathaniel: WHERE'S MY RING, HUH?

It is fairly well documented that diamonds being 'rare' and 'valuable' is an artificial construct of the diamond marketing industry. And more recently they have figured out how to make larger diamonds artificially that are difficult to distinguish from natural mined diamonds and in some cases are superior. Don't buy her a rock that is going to get her killed on the subway.