• Albbi@piefed.ca
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    3 days ago

    A lot of products used to say “satisfaction guaranteed”. So you could literally return products you had consumed. I don’t know how many people did that though.

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      Most of those guarantees involve mailing your receipt and the proof of purchase to the company along with a letter explaining how you were not satisfied before they will get around to mailing you a check for the $4.73 in 8-12 weeks.

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        Some of them went over the top the try to ‘make it right’. Dude I went to highschool with did this shit almost like it was a hobby. He’d call the customer support line and complain about whatever bullshit he could come up with - gummy lump in his drink, hard flake in his bag of chips that 'might have been a fingernail!… they’d take his number and address, and that was usually the end of it.

        Then occasionally a box would randomly show up at his front door with like 50 bottles of soda or candy bars or w/e, and a letter apologizing for the trouble lol.

        Manipulative little shit. And that was when we were like 14 years old… dude’s probably running his own organized crime ring nowadays. xD

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          Those kinds of people are why all these shitty poliicies have to be put i place.

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            Absolutely. That dude was likely personally responsible for a good handful of these policies. Nowadays I’d be willing to bet that he’s either in jail or actively flirting with it.

            Or dead.