106 Dirty Business Tactics That You May Not Know Exist

Yes, I can see how that would eat away at your soul... :-(

Autopay does wonders.

Actually, now that you mention this. KAY jewellers has tried this with me!!! Persuading my girlfriend to get a ring and pay in installments and if u do a down payment then there will be no interest on the payments. And I'm a finance guy so I think: spread money over time and pay no interest? With inflation over 2% and rising, you're giving them less valuable money the longer U wait. So sure if there is no interest, I'll make use of it. So time passes and I'm waiting for the monthly bill to arrive to pay this installment but it never arrived! So through a difficult process I found out myself how much and to where I have to pay this installment. Cuz I just don't like overdue bills. I dont trust them. If I hadn't started that difficult process of finding out myself, I would be paying 29% interest for the rest of the installments. And now that i know this, im getting over there personally tomorrow and let them know I'm suing them. :)

Chase credit card annual fees. They send every message and notification to any charge takes place on card but they don’t send email or text for annual fees of 95$ even though notification is on and other charges will come and show up in notification. This way they just make users pay but don’t make them realize big payment. Many a times people don’t give attention to that and just pay.

Verizon said the same thing to me after I called several times to request a copy of my bill, which never came. I called my state's attorney general and the guy I told that to practically fell out of his chair laughing so hard.

Original jeans used to be almost indistructable but now they sell jeans with holes already tore in them !!

Companies don't design stuff to break after X amount of time. They are forced to do so, so they can keep their price low. Every kilogram of steel on any part translates into hundreds of tons when making a few thousand of these parts. Consumers get what they pay for. Want car that lasts X generations? Get Bentley... Want a cheap car? Get Seat

Good luck with that. Samsung doesnt even release updates for old phones and it gets slower and slowers anyways

HP also has a system to prevent using old cartridges. I bought a new printer using the same model of cartridges than my old one. The old cartridges do not work in the new printer. On the other hand, both the new and the old cartridges work in the old printer.

Apple is 100% guilty. I stopped updating my apple devices when newer versions came out. Ran fine, just like they always did. My friends' devices, not so much.

you could also just turn it to the power position without fully turn on the engine, you'll see all the lights. Even works with push button ignitions, just don't push the brake pedal while pushing starter(mine takes 2 pushes)

Do people who pass the driving license exam are unaware that you're supposed to check the lamps before turning the engine on (if a light malfunctions, it won't light up when the problem occurs)? This is why between engaging battery and turning the ignition on, all lamps on dashboard light up.

Probably not good when it stays on either.... like mine

yes when you turn the key to on, all the lights turn on to show you they are ok. it's called a lamp-test

Oooooooooo, GREAT call ! Scumbags.

Same goes for legal rulings here (Belgium) where it's better to be condemned to 12 months (12 x 30 days = 360 days) than to a year (365 days) of jail...

I had to have a similar conversation with a new employee. She wanted X amount annually, which we agreed to in our salary negotiations. BUT, we paid every 2 weeks as opposed to the twice monthly she was used to (and she was informed of this in her orientation). She had a screaming fit when she got her first paycheck because she needed a certain amount every payday and we were ripping her off etc. I had to explain that the difference between 24 paychecks versus 26 paychecks did not alter her annual compensation in any way. It took FOREVER to get her to understand she was being paid properly. What's really scary is that she was a outside sales person who needed to calculate her own commsisions. These are your math skills? I double checked everything she submitted for at least a year.

Obvious.

Not in the US- as an attorney I assure you if it’s not in writing it is not a contract I. e. not binding. Is there technically a work around? Yes. But it's frowned upon and actively discouraged. Go watch contact cases in a US courtroom-you could watch 100s that wouldn't enforce anything not in writing.

The witness(es) would have to be willing to put their job on the line. Do you really think you can count on that happening? If they testify in court for you ....they could be out of a job after that.

I had a manager at work that pulled that all the time. They tried it with me, offering me an upgraded title in recognition of my work. She said I would get a small pay raise but none of the responsibilities or duties that the title normally brought with it (which I considered too much for the small raise). I said put it in writing and have all 3 location managers and the General manager sign for me to accept. Never heard a peep about that again.

At this one restaurant I worked at, I was required to frown and scoff at someone who ordered a water (from the tap). If they questioned it I was supposed to say "the tap water in the area was filthy" so that they would order bottled water, all while I lived in the area. I quit later that week.

How would someone not notice this? Were the bowls really thick?

Well, in some. I have dined in places where the bowl is obviously larger than a cup. However I can believe some places do this.

Was that at a Red Robin restaurant?

Good observation....thanks for paying attention.

I worked for a catering company as a server, back in the "80's. The catering company automatically charged 15% gratuity on every invoice, the staff never saw a penny of it. Turns out they used the gratuity to pay the servers, cooks and drivers to reduce their overhead. I remember we were doing a large event for a regular customer and we had some new people working that he wasn't very happy with. He came and complained to me about it and he actually used the gratuity to try to intimidate the servers into doing what he wanted. when I explained to him that none of the staff saw a penny of that money, he was mortified, apparently he had been "over tipping" for years because of the great staff. I don't remember him booking with us again and that was a huge loss to the business because he booked 20-30 events a year with us. My bosses were pissed but it was the truth and the right thing to do.

PayPal them a tip, I've used PayPal and Google wallet to tip wait staff before to avoid the same damn thing.

That is, indeed, illegal. They could pay you 100x the minimum wage, and it doesn't matter in the slightest: gratuities are the property of the server, NOT the management. I believe it would be legal for an establishment to have a reasonable tip-sharing policy (at least then the tip is going to people who actually _served_ the customer in some capacity). And it is definitely legal for the place to bar all tipping entirely (provided they pay at least minimum wage). But _NEVER_ to take those tips for themselves.

If it's recent I'd talk to an atty-, they probably even charge you. I'm not convinced that's legal. It wouldn't hurt. So crappy.

Could you name the place and the owner please. A little advertising of this theft,would be sobering for the low life.

Thats extremely common with electronics as well. And all of those Black Friday deals you see? Every single one of them have their own separate model number.