chiliedogg

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

The most plausible way is a short-term boycott for like 2 weeks at the end of their fiscal reporting period. You want the rebound not to be reflected in the quarterly report so it fucks with the share prices.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Wait until the last 2 weeks of the fiscal quarter instead of mid-cycle and the rebound bump won't show up on their quarterly earnings, which will fuck their stock value, which is the only thing that matters to them.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yes. Immediately after the fiscal quarter ends, giving them plenty of time to make up for it when everyone who put it off for a week just buys it the next week. Because that's when it'll hurt, not right before they have to report numbers.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Our version of good manners is Southern Hospitality.

We have the most polite racism.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Seize all Musk and Trump-owned assets.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can your birthday be 10 years ago?

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The bar might get pretty ruthless for fake case citations.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

It is. Here's the link to the rules on deeptive pricing in the Code of Federal Regulations.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-233

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

"Originally" just means it used to be that price. at some point, not that it's still the regular price.

That's something that might be used on an older model laptop or cell phone.

"Hot Deal" can me something that's considered valuable even at regular price. The Black Friday products that are produced specifically to be cheap for Black Friday can fall into this category. I worked at a retailer that had $10 blue jeans shipped in just for that sale every year, so $10 was their regular price even though they were a "good value".

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Fun fact, it's illegal to say something is on sale when it isn't lower than their normal price, so they'll use weasel words you can watch out for.

"Compare to", "originally", "Hot Deal", "Special Buy", "[Insert holiday] special", etc.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

American here. Doing what little I can, but we need help.

The key to overthrowing Trump and the GOP is fucking up our economy, and nothing hits faster and more universally than energy. Push for your legislators to ban the sale of energy, fuel, and minerals to the US.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

People don't buy them for the price they'll buy bigger phones. That's it. That's the whole story.

They have to make the phone cost $300 less to sell in meaningful numbers. Why do that when they could just not make them at all and sell fewer models at higher prices?

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