- cross-posted to:
- datahoarder@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- datahoarder@lemmy.ml
Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits::Some people have taken “as much space as you need” too literally.
Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits::Some people have taken “as much space as you need” too literally.
If there’s not then they have no business selling an unlimited supply of it.
Where I’m from services should be as advertised, legally so.
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In what world are “unlimited” and “all you can eat” synonymous with “too far”?
“Too far” implies a definite limit, which is the antonym of unlimited and all you can eat, regardless of the business’s ability to sustain it. If there is a limit, don’t advertise it as unlimited or all you can eat that’s false advertisement.
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In the marketing department apparently.
Companies should stop saying unlimited if we all agree nothing is unlimited, don’t you think?
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Lifetime guarantees are absolutely still a thing. But it’s normally for higher priced items since the quality of the average ware went down.
I agree with you that customers should become more responsible for the decisions they make. But we’ve proven time and time again (for decades if not longer) that customers are not rational actors that know everything about everything. Ads would never work if that was a thing.
But here we are. There are laws against false advertising and words have exact meanings. The fact that “unlimited” is still not false advertising baffles me. It should be.
I guess you’re okay with predatory wordings in product descriptions that target people who don’t understand that things cannot be without limits? Just because they should know better, ignoring the fact you don’t know everything? Where do you draw the line? Would you blindly trust a single drug description saying it cures cancer, though no such thing can ever exist?
No, they no longer exist bc they were never sustainable, but they knew that in the first place and sold it as “life time” bc they knew they could make money by lying to customers. Lying is bad and we all agree businesses shouldn’t lie, no?
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That’s kind of the point: Companies shouldn’t be allowed to advertise anything as unlimited when it is, in fact, not.
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Companies shouldn’t be allowed to lie about services, full stop.
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You seem to be struggling with the English language and what words mean. This is beyond my ability to help you at this point so have a good day and good luck!
Unlimited doesn’t mean “upload what you want to a certain limit”, it means “upload what you want, as much as you want”.
You’re misunderstanding the word unlimited, as countless others before me have already pointed out to you
In what world do Nigerian princes email random people and offer to send them millions of dollars? Is it ok to scam old people and idiots because they should know better?
No, if it was unlimited, I should be able to pipe /dev/urandom to it for fun if that’s what I choose to do. What’s this about “gluttony”? They sold the service as that.
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Why are you arguing on behalf of a company? Why use the word unlimited if it is not unlimited?
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Why would you need to regulate the usage of an unlimited service? Aren’t you paying for the luxury of not having to regulate yourself to a fixed limit?
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None of the things you mentioned were a service you paid for, that’s called a false equivalency.
I would say go ahead if you were paying for a shopping cart collector, personal trash collector, and a cigarette butt collector. Why would you hire them if you did not intend to use their services?
The business made a deal, people took them up on their offer. It was a voluntary action on each side. If there was no intention or ability follow through on what they were offering, they should not have done so in the first place. Just make the cap 30tb or whatever. This eliminates the potential for abuse and does not trick consumers into thinking they will receive the service they paid for.
You’ve clearly got no critical thinking skills. Don’t be upset that people expect to be able to use a service they pay for, from a company that chose to offer that service.
Then why advertise it as “unlimited” or “all you can eat”? That’s false advertisement.
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If the theater specifically advertised itself as a place where you could leave as much trash as you wanted, then yes, that would make it reasonable to do.
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The business advertised something to differentiate itself from the free market, it’s not the free markets fault if the business cannot sustain what it advertised
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What? How? The user is simply taking advantage of what is being offered
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