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#3330266 11-Jan-2025 15:41

Tinkerisk:

Reanalyse:

Don't you just love "Lifetime offers" that are not....

You are making the wrong assumptions: ‘Lifetime’ refers to the lifetime of the product, not that of the user. 😉

That's why it's always been my favourite question to ask when someone is touting "lifetime" whatevers. "Whose lifetime?"

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#3330344 11-Jan-2025 21:31

Is the Pluralsight Team part of the Doublespeak Group?

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#3330428 12-Jan-2025 06:36

Rikkitic:

I think social media have changed something fundamental. Wherever we are headed, it will never be back to where we were.

Don't get me started on social media. Meta's new "Hateful Conduct" policy is itself Hateful Conduct. I have nothing good to say about most social media (namely Twitter and Facebook).

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#3330431 12-Jan-2025 07:21

Tinkerisk:

Reanalyse:

Don't you just love "Lifetime offers" that are not....

You are making the wrong assumptions: ‘Lifetime’ refers to the lifetime of the product, not that of the user. 😉

Macpac disagrees with you. A few years ago my brother took a small backpack where the zip had failed for repair under the lifetime warranty, unfortunately since it was originally my grandfather's (d. 1994) backpack they considered it no longer covered.

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#3330560 12-Jan-2025 12:22

You're misunderstanding the use of the term "lifetime", the product is under warranty until it fails/dies, that's the end of its lifetime and so there's no more warranty. "Guaranteed until it's not".

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#3330573 12-Jan-2025 12:49

It seems like this is something that should be disambiguated in statute if retailers can't agree to be consistent.
Doesn't help internationally of course.

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#3330591 12-Jan-2025 13:48

In a dystopian future companies will hire contractors to solve 'lifetime guarantee' issues.

Could be a basic plot point for a new 'hero' shooter game.

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#3330816 13-Jan-2025 09:48

Politics in the politics thread please

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#3330818 13-Jan-2025 09:59

Sorry, I thought there had been political Whiskeys here previously.

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#3330834 13-Jan-2025 10:56

It’s just that it is such a target rich environment, and likely to get worse, that it will take over this thread.

There are specific threads in the Politics forum for people to vent their prejudices.

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#3331017 13-Jan-2025 17:54

cddt:

Macpac disagrees with you. A few years ago my brother took a small backpack where the zip had failed for repair under the lifetime warranty, unfortunately since it was originally my grandfather's (d. 1994) backpack they considered it no longer covered.

Yes, there are exceptions - but not for software. 😁

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#3331023 13-Jan-2025 18:55

Tinkerisk:

cddt:

Macpac disagrees with you. A few years ago my brother took a small backpack where the zip had failed for repair under the lifetime warranty, unfortunately since it was originally my grandfather's (d. 1994) backpack they considered it no longer covered.

Yes, there are exceptions - but not for software. 😁

So long as the software vendor decides there's no planned obsolescence. We're looking at you, Microsoft, Google & Adobe.

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#3331411 14-Jan-2025 13:04

Looking at Tripadvisor hotel recommendation and booking in Adelaide. Shows various hotel options for the dates entered via booking.com etc. Click on the "deals" and they come up with a price more than double what was indicated. All of them.

Whisky Tango Alpha Foxtrot???

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#3331420 14-Jan-2025 13:16

johno1234:

Looking at Tripadvisor hotel recommendation and booking in Adelaide. Shows various hotel options for the dates entered via booking.com etc. Click on the "deals" and they come up with a price more than double what was indicated. All of them.

Whisky Tango Alpha Foxtrot???

Yeah...check who owns who..... Bookings.com I believe is EU based, there are a bunch of others all under the one owner...all US based.

I will NEVER use Hotels.com again, we have 21 days of bookings for 3 rooms per day in the USA.

We have NOT received our "free nights"

Yes I have called them, yes they would get back to me.....and yes they now ignore me.

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#3331422 14-Jan-2025 13:21

I wanted a new car battery for my UPS. Like everything else in this country, they have become far more expensive than they ought to be. I finally found something acceptable at Supercheap. But when I went in I could find no hint of the sale price stated on the web site. I checked very carefully, more than once. No indication at all. Nothing even close. One of the employees saw me searching and asked what I was looking for. I explained and he went off, looked up the item, wrote the stock number on his hand, searched the shelves, and finally found it. I got it for the price I wanted and nobody questioned that, but if I hadn't gone to the web site first I never would have known about it. All the listed prices in the shop were around $40 more. Surely this isn't correct?

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