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A good reminder. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] cobysev 61 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My dad was paying an annual subscription for several Ring cameras around his house. I replaced them with Eufy Security cameras, because you can store the video feed locally and not have to pay any subscription at all.

Then my dad passed away in January and I've spent this year closing all his accounts and switching bills over to my name. A few days ago, I got a reminder email in his account that he was about to be charged several hundred dollars for another year subscription to Ring. Even though he hasn't had active cameras with them for almost a year now. Glad I caught it!

[–] lolrightythen 23 points 3 months ago

Vultures hate this one simple trick!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I’ll spend 6 hours researching whether I really wanna spend $1.99 on a Steam game that’s 90% off for the first time after I nearly bought it 4 times before at 50% off.

Then when my cell phone bill comes and I’m like “Yeah, I’m definitely overpaying by like $70 here…” I go “Well, too late for this one, I’ll handle it sometime in the next 30 days.”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

A switch to per minute, per megabyte plan made me a lot more concious about spending money on my phone. If I want something to watch/listen to during a trip, I download it beforehand. I almost never use any minutes, only communicating via the mobile data. With autodownloading of pictures disabled in all my chat apps, it runs about 50 MB per month, which charges me less than 50 cents.

[–] Angry_Autist 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is this a recent thing because I will absolutely get you whatever 2 buck game you want on steam like right now. With zero hesitation. Heck make it five bucks. PM me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That’s very kind, thank you.

How about this: You hold onto that five bucks for me and pick a charity you like. I’ll PM you when I finally take care of that phone bill and you can donate it then. I’ll end up with even more cash for Steam games, and you’ll have helped me and a charity.

[–] Angry_Autist 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Too late! $15 just went to Child's Play and another $15 will go to Doctors Without Borders when you PM me and I will place it in your name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Just sent you a PM! Thank you so much!

[+] [email protected] -9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Any reason why you did not pirate the game the first time you wanted it?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Generally more convenient (automatic updates and easy downloading on anything that has steam) and more than that, he probably wants to support the devs

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was a game developer for a while. I’ll sometimes buy a game just because I want to see the devs keep making cool stuff, with no intention of actually playing it.

If it’s a corpo AAA title where private equity has already demolished the dev team and there’s no chance my $50 will make it past the publisher and financiers’ cut, I have no compunctions about pirating.

But that’s pretty rare for me. Indie games are where it’s at. Maybe a F2P live service game here and there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean, you can do both. Pirate it for trying if you're not sure if you want to play it or unsure if it's a worthwhile investment and then spend the money on a legit copy. Helped me get like three copies of Slay the Spire back in the day lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I think that might worsen my problem lol

[–] Angry_Autist 0 points 3 months ago

Too much sneaky malware out there man, even in once trusted cracking circles.

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have at least 2 I need to cancel but one is a gym membership and you have to go there to do it, yuck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just do it. Then pick up some fast food as a reward.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Power move, walk in with a cream bun clenched in a fist and demand to close your membership. Maintain eye contact and eat the entire time

[–] MantisTobogganMD 1 points 3 months ago

I would love to, but proton makes it impossible

[–] Gennadios 1 points 3 months ago

Oh shit, I bought a sub to an ai voice cloner trying to avoid doing voiceovers for a powerpoint.

Spoiler: It was fucking useless.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Whatever happened to using periods?