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I honestly thought financing pizza was a joke until I looked it up. Like wtf that's some predatory shit
Edit: this one is funny though: https://www.businessinsider.com/hell-pizza-company-letting-customers-buy-now-pay-when-dead-2023-5?op=1
It's like the government just stopped caring to protect us at all. Every regulatory system has been broken. You are being sold carcinogens every day and there is no help coming. Have a nice day!
Your ancestors knew that doing stuff like that wasn't sustainable. However, instead of leaving the door closed, they opened the door nice and wide, exploited it as long as they could, and then welded the door shut so that no one else could take advantage of the leftovers.
Our parents thought "free handouts" weren't good for us and were only for "bad people" which was inexplicably often black people
Right?! It's just tricking people into spending money they shouldn't.
That's like 99% of what marketing is.
Which is one of the many reasons why advertising should be illegal with very few exceptions.
It’s vile what we consider normal.
Absolutely.
How do you define advertising?? How do you propose you inform people about your product?
Next they will have Pizza Mortgages and their logical counterpart, the Reverse Pizza Mortgage.
" If you own your pizza, you could qualify for a reverse pizza mortgage!"
Did anybody at all read the article?
666 people are enrolled in a trial system so that their pizza debts are collected from their estate when they die.
No interest rate or fees.
So.......
Basically free pizza for life. It's not predatory, And it's insane to me that people post articles, even in a comment, without reading them. Because if you had read the article "predatory" would be the furthest thing for your mind. It's just a gimmick promotion to increase sales
I definitely wish I was one of those 666 people
I should clarify, I'm trusting people to do their own googling but referring to the likes of zip.co when I say predatory:
https://zip.co/us/store/uber-eats
The article I linked was just a funny example of pizza financing I found along the way
Fair enough.
And I apologize for the harsh tone.
I read the article you linked, and I was like "what's this guy talking about".
Have a nice day.
Shit, if everyone signs up for that what's to stop them from going bankrupt before you have to pay? Also, what stops people from altering the will after the fact?
Well, they can sell your debt if they go down.