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Originally Posted by Princess Ellisa
Have also been in exile on a different island but laughed out loud when reading this as I had the same thought. Also equated it to the free trials... which of course we all know are not really free .... unless they are done without taking a credit card now?
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Customers are more educated in these days. Scamming them with free trials and asking credit card for age verification, etc. doesn't work that well anymore. Besides that sort of scamming is illegal in these days in where I live. Charging customer's credit card without clear consent from the customer is illegal. It just tightened about a year ago that what kind of consent is required.
Of course establishing company into Nigeria, etc. you can still scam people freely and legally, at least Nigerian wise.
In these kind of threads there is usually one big flaw. People forget that competition has increased. Yes, there are tubes, etc. but also shit load of more competitors than in back in the days. Applies to all online business.
In the times of hard competition; porn business, selling penis pills, etc. might be the only businesses where scamming customers is still seen as a viable option, at least by some companies/ individuals. However scamming people and selling the same shit, or worse shit than back in the days, with same price and with same "package" doesn't work that well and those who try it will slowly perish. I just recently read an article about "creative destruction" (it was study regarding my country's businesses and productivity). One important if not most important way to increase nation's productivity, is that some businesses go under or at least lose market share and also "employee share" to more productive companies. So, we can say with good heart "Bye, bye." to businesses those go under/ lose market share. Well, easier said than done, but that how societies go forward business wise.