SoozcatDear companies sending me #CreditCard offers: miss me with that #AnnualFee nonsense. Why TF would I pay YOU every year for the privilege of owing you money?
Dustin D. Wind@Soozcat "We want you to pay us $X00 a year so that we can give you some scheme (with more conditions than a Rube Goldberg device) for getting 'cash back' — and we sincerely think it'll give you back more than our fee, because we just love you so much! We've stopped trying to squeeze every drop of blood we can out of you because the shareholders want to give you their money now, it's definitely not 'the house always wins' on steroids! 🤪 🤥 "
@Soozcat (More like "You're paying us money unless you charge more than $YZ,0000. And even if you do, we still win because we get to charge the retailer $ABCD for money we'll get back no matter what. Money which gets tacked on to what you pay, because they're obeying the same compulsion to maximize every drop of profit.")
All hail the United Empire of Profit, where the biggest leech with the sharpest teeth (and which sucks the hardest) wins.
@MySideIsHumanity Oy. Sad but true. Fortunately you do come across people who aren't all about squeezing two nickels into three dimes, and that gives me some hope.