Meanwhile, in the world of Amazon reviews…
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@BigJackBrass They do this for books, too. 😬
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I've seen a writer post a screenshot of a one-star review of his novel.
The reviewer gave one star because he was disappointed the novel was not a packet of sausages.
@[email protected] @[email protected] "I've now finished this book and no longer need it, so I've sent it back."
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Didn't you know? it's the Amazon library hack.
@mavnn @cstross @BigJackBrass I bought this jacket when it was cold, but it is no longer snowing.
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@mavnn @cstross @BigJackBrass This reminds me a bit of the Costco computer exploit. Basically, Costco had an extremely long and liberal return policy on computers, which they aggressively advertised as being a reason why you could trust buying your computer from them, a big, non specialist warehouse store. People would basically buy a computer, use it for a year and then return it on day 364 and buy the next year's model. It became a well known and heavily used exploit.
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@mavnn @cstross @BigJackBrass Running the latest and greatest computer became effectively free so long as you were willing to reinstall/remigrate your stuff annually. Costco finally caught in or couldn't justify absorbing the costs of the small percentage of customers performing this annual ritual, so they eventually changed to a somewhat more conventional return policy.