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How to legally pocket $59M and ship 0 phones: Change the TOS *after* people pay to say a "deposit" doesn't actually reserve a phone.
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Sony XM4 Headphones speak to chat feature is designed badly
The feature keeps on re-enabling after turning it off every couple of days. When I join a meet(google/zoom) and I start speaking this feature triggers and I am unable to hear until I tap back on headphones. And manually disable it again. Very irritating very badly designed.
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The feature keeps on re-enabling after turning it off every couple of days. When I join a meet(google/zoom) and I start speaking this feature triggers and I am unable to hear until I tap back on headphones. And manually disable it again. Very irritating very badly designed.
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Creative Fabrica AI charged me during a free trial period and Paypal rejected my dispute
I think I just got trapped by one of the most deceptive free trial subscription setups I have ever seen and I want to warn other people about it. I signed up for what was heavily presented as a 30 day free trial on Creative Fabrica because I needed some design assets for a project. Like most free trials online it asked me to connect PayPal and my card details so I assumed it was just for verification or future billing after the trial period ended. Instead I was immediately charged 59 88 USD for an annual subscription.
There was no moment where I knowingly intended to buy a full yearly plan on the spot. The whole sign-up flow was centered around the idea of a free trial which made the immediate annual charge extremely misleading in my opinion. As soon as I noticed the charge I contacted Creative Fabrica support asking for a refund and clarification. The response was entirely automated and basically boiled down to saying I was not eligible for a refund based on their system. It felt impossible to speak to an actual person who would properly address the issue.
I then filed a PayPal dispute (May 6) explaining that this was a misleading subscription billing issue tied to a supposed free trial. I submitted screenshots of the offer proof of the charge and all my communication attempts with the company.
PayPal (just today) denied the dispute saying the transaction was processed correctly.
That response honestly shocked me because the issue was never that the payment failed or that my account was hacked. The issue was the deceptive way the free trial appeared to transition into an expensive annual subscription charge. Now I am trying to dispute the transaction through my bank because this entire experience feels intentionally designed to confuse people into paying for a yearly subscription they did not clearly intend to purchase.
I know some people will say to always read every line carefully and I agree people should be cautious but I also think companies should not be allowed to market something as a free trial in a way that causes people to unknowingly authorize an immediate annual charge.
It's honestly so gut wrenching as I needed the money for school. I don't even know how I begin telling my mom, and I just want to ball up and cry. I don't understand how I got rejected when there's clear evidence of it. I don't know what to do now... Has anyone else here experienced something similar with Creative Fabrica or other subscription services that use misleading free trial billing tactics?
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I think I just got trapped by one of the most deceptive free trial subscription setups I have ever seen and I want to warn other people about it. I signed up for what was heavily presented as a 30 day free trial on Creative Fabrica because I needed some design assets for a project. Like most free trials online it asked me to connect PayPal and my card details so I assumed it was just for verification or future billing after the trial period ended. Instead I was immediately charged 59 88 USD for an annual subscription.
There was no moment where I knowingly intended to buy a full yearly plan on the spot. The whole sign-up flow was centered around the idea of a free trial which made the immediate annual charge extremely misleading in my opinion. As soon as I noticed the charge I contacted Creative Fabrica support asking for a refund and clarification. The response was entirely automated and basically boiled down to saying I was not eligible for a refund based on their system. It felt impossible to speak to an actual person who would properly address the issue.
I then filed a PayPal dispute (May 6) explaining that this was a misleading subscription billing issue tied to a supposed free trial. I submitted screenshots of the offer proof of the charge and all my communication attempts with the company.
PayPal (just today) denied the dispute saying the transaction was processed correctly.
That response honestly shocked me because the issue was never that the payment failed or that my account was hacked. The issue was the deceptive way the free trial appeared to transition into an expensive annual subscription charge. Now I am trying to dispute the transaction through my bank because this entire experience feels intentionally designed to confuse people into paying for a yearly subscription they did not clearly intend to purchase.
I know some people will say to always read every line carefully and I agree people should be cautious but I also think companies should not be allowed to market something as a free trial in a way that causes people to unknowingly authorize an immediate annual charge.
It's honestly so gut wrenching as I needed the money for school. I don't even know how I begin telling my mom, and I just want to ball up and cry. I don't understand how I got rejected when there's clear evidence of it. I don't know what to do now... Has anyone else here experienced something similar with Creative Fabrica or other subscription services that use misleading free trial billing tactics?
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A taxpayer-funded Catch-22: The government portal tells you to call a hotline to report tax fraud. The hotline operators are trained to say "we don't accept calls" and hang up. When my site exposed it, they panicked and deleted the webpage (404) instead of fixing it.
Why this is peak Asshole Design:
This isn't a glitch; it’s a deliberate bureaucratic dark pattern designed to make citizens give up on reporting multi-million dollar tax evasion.
1. The Intentional Loop: The official state portal (gov.gr) explicitly instructed citizens to use hotline 1517 for telephone reports. However, the call center backend had strict operational orders to refuse every single call, telling users to "go to the website" and dropping the request. They built a fully staffed call center just to act as a human firewall against citizen reports.
2. The Cover-Up (The 404): I got so frustrated that I built a civic tech platform (fix1517.gr) to expose this taxpayer-funded loop, featuring a live "Silence Counter" tracking how many months the Ministry has ignored my official inquiries.
3. The Solution? Delete it: Within 24 hours of the project gaining massive traction, the Ministry of Finance panicked. Instead of fixing the operational script of the hotline to actually help people, they chose to hide the evidence. They stealthily deleted the instruction page. Now, the official government link just returns a 404 Page Not Found.
They literally spent public money to build a fake storefront for fighting fraud, and when a single vibe coder exposed the scam, they just tore down the sign and pretended it never existed.
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Why this is peak Asshole Design:
This isn't a glitch; it’s a deliberate bureaucratic dark pattern designed to make citizens give up on reporting multi-million dollar tax evasion.
1. The Intentional Loop: The official state portal (gov.gr) explicitly instructed citizens to use hotline 1517 for telephone reports. However, the call center backend had strict operational orders to refuse every single call, telling users to "go to the website" and dropping the request. They built a fully staffed call center just to act as a human firewall against citizen reports.
2. The Cover-Up (The 404): I got so frustrated that I built a civic tech platform (fix1517.gr) to expose this taxpayer-funded loop, featuring a live "Silence Counter" tracking how many months the Ministry has ignored my official inquiries.
3. The Solution? Delete it: Within 24 hours of the project gaining massive traction, the Ministry of Finance panicked. Instead of fixing the operational script of the hotline to actually help people, they chose to hide the evidence. They stealthily deleted the instruction page. Now, the official government link just returns a 404 Page Not Found.
They literally spent public money to build a fake storefront for fighting fraud, and when a single vibe coder exposed the scam, they just tore down the sign and pretended it never existed.
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Instagram refuses to remove such comments after multiple reports and reviews.
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Google's new Sheets logo looks like it's aligned to right and added some gradients
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Facebook mobile has 2 AI generated search bars that suggest near-completely unrelated random BS on both the top and bottom of a video. Even in Clear mode it doesn't get rid of the top bar
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Shopee keep adveristing old and busted trending products since back then last years
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