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[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 62 points 1 month 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@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Vultures hate this one simple trick!

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 33 points 1 month ago (2 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.”

[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 7 points 1 month 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.

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month 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.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month 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

[–] Drusas@kbin.run 1 points 1 month ago

Whatever happened to using periods?

[–] MantisTobogganMD@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I would love to, but proton makes it impossible