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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • I can’t believe people were buying into their “franchise”. They approached me in 2020 when they were trying to expand into the town I live and I had a downtown warehouse to operate out of. After they got done explaining everything, I laughed until they hung up.

    You had to buy the scooters from them at around $600 each, you were responsible for all the recovery/batteries/maintenance/damage/theft caused by customers, warranty was non-existent (“call our chinese supplier and they will totally hook you up”), and after that they took 20% off the top. Some quick math put it at over 6 months before each scooter became profitable IF nothing happened to it in that time. Someone throws it in the canal just to be a dick? Sucks to be you, you’re out $600 + whatever else you’ve put into it every time it happens.

    Really came off to me that they were making their money selling to suckers who thought they were going to be entrepreneurs.

    Edit: They did apparently did get someone here into it because I saw them around for a few months before disappearing completely.













  • Seathru@beehaw.orgtoPiracy@lemmy.mlPiracy > resellers
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    11 months ago

    NiX:

    I love you guys and postal series, but I’m not made of money, if I can get a game for cheaper I’d rather pay less than more.

    Running With Scissors:

    Which is why we’re telling you to pirate our games instead of paying a scammer who will cost us money and probably even get your key revoked Our games are cheap right now through official sites. Is saving a few cents worth lowering the chances for releasing another POSTAL game?

    NiX:

    Isn’t pirating illegal? You want your fans get fines and shit? Now they are on sale so I might pick up some but normally i still rather get the game of g2a for cheaper

    Running With Scissors:

    You can’t get fines if the owners of the IP give you permission to download. Just know that by getting on G2A, we not only get no money, we also have to pay for the chargeback, that’s the core of the problem and it means no new games in the future and no more RWS

    Edit: fixed formatting.




  • I guess I’ll be the oddball that pays mostly in cash. Mostly because I’m self employed and taking cash to the bank across town is one more errand to run. So I’ll pay with cash in person until it’s gone and then switch to card. Also saves the 3-4% card markup a lot of places charge here. I’m in the US.