so i finally got suspended from X and here is the kicker …
i googled it and they will keep charging me $3 / month premium subscription forever and there is no way to cancel it because you need to get an account back in order to cancel the subscription and as we know nobody has ever gotten an account back just by appealing the suspension …
it’s such a widespread scam that even AI knows about it and tells you point blank that they will just keep charging you …
people on REDDIT are calling this criminal and i agree but then again everything Elon Musk does is criminal so obviously i am not surprised …
i called my credit card and they said they wrote a note about it but i will need to wait until the next billing date then check my credit card statement and if i am charged then call them again and THEN they can do something about it … this is fairly typical in these situations where you think the scammers will do a fraudulent charge but it hasn’t actually happened yet …
what can i say frens … Elon is a piece of work … never EVER give him any money for any reason ! it is only a matter of time before you will regret it !
back to NOSTR …
i mean i am not surprised that i was suspended - i was expecting THAT to happen.
but it’s crazy that he keeps charging people who are suspended and has coded the site in such a way that you can’t cancel the subscription once suspended.
but what you have to understand about Elon is there is no limit to how low he will go or how cheap he is. there are too many examples of this behavior from him to list.
never ever under-estimate how bad things can get with Elon. our fren @OldFriendSaysHello thought how bad can it be ? i can get a 1,000 horsepower supercar for the price of base model S-Class surely whatever issues there may be with Tesla are outweighed by the benefits … WRONG
OFSH learned the hard way, and now so have i.
the sad part is i am the one who warned everybody about this but while i generally give excellent advice i am not very good at following it myself ! ! !
so i had to wait for X to charge me before i could dispute the charge and they were charging me every month on the 14th so today i went to check and sure enough - they charged me !
they charged me $3 for premium WEEKS after i have been permanently suspended !
this is Indian-Level scamming from Elon and i would expect nothing less from World’s greatest scammer
i am now officially disputing the charge with my credit card and my advice to anybody is to never, for any reason EVER do any business with Elon Musk
if there is one thing Elon has always made clear is that he doesn’t care about anybody - not his customers, not his investors, not Trump, not the mothers of his children, not the “journalists” shilling for him without whom Tesla would have been bankrupt - he is simply not capable of giving a shit about anybody and he makes that the official policy of his companies.
i used to say Elon ruined the automotive industry but saved Twitter … i was wrong
Elon didn’t save Twitter - he Elonified it. the effects of Elonification on X are largely the same as with Tesla. NO CUSTOMER SERVICE is a trademark of Elon for example that applies equally to Tesla and X.
Elon claims to care about efficiency … well i just had to spend hours to cancel a 3 dollar charge that should have been something done with one click - how efficient is this ? The answer is Elon is a LIAR and only cares about MONEY FOR HIMSELF.
if you think otherwise YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT !
granted - MOST companies only care about money, but that doesn’t stop them from providing customers service or using fair practices most of the time. because most companies believe customers will appreciate this and want return business. not Elon.
Elon believes in PYRAMIDS. He believes losing customers is irrelevant - only thing that matters is getting more NEW customers than the number of previously loyal customers you lose. this works … until it doesn’t.
The reason Toyota is world’s number one car brand is CUSTOMER LOYALTY. I had a friend in the gym who owned a mechanics shop and his advice for me was simple - get a Toyota. this was 20 years ago before YouTube. Today Scotty Kilmer - the most popular mechanics channel on YouTube gives you the same advice - get a Toyota.
The worst thing i have EVER heard about Toyota is that it is boring. In fact it’s the ONLY negative thing i heard about Toyota. It’s the only negative thing ANYBODY has heard about a car brand that is number one in 80% of the world’s countries including USA.
When you build a reputation like this you are thinking LONG TERM. Your brand should be your biggest asset. Ideally your brand should be so strong people do not consider ANY aspects of the product at all - they should just buy the brand and within the brand simply pick a model in their budget. This is how people buy Apple products for example.
This is NOT how people buy Tesla. In the past people bought Tesla because of perceived innovativeness. Now they buy Tesla because of perceived value. NOBODY buys Tesla because it’s a solid brand in the same way as people buy Toyota, Lexus or Porsche.
You may not think of Toyota as a premium brand but 9 times out of 10 when a choice comes down to Toyota vs Hyundai the Toyota is more expensive … and most people STILL choose the Toyota, because Toyota’s brand is strong while Hyundai’s brand is weak. Quite simply nobody who knows cars will ever get a Hyundai over a Toyota.
Tesla ? Is now below Hyundai. Aside from retarded Tesla Fanboys who yap about FSD when REAL automotive experts talk about Hyundai EVs versus Tesla EVs the consensus is that Hyundai is the better brand but Tesla is cheaper for a given level of performance.
Elon has built his empire by offering shit products - PayPal was always known to be shit. Tesla was always known to be shit. Now X is following suit.
I haven’t heard anything bad about StarLink but also it isn’t a product that is useful for 99% of people. for the 1% of people who have a use for it - it seems to be amazing. personally though i have 2 gigabit fiber.
sure if you want to live “off the grid” then StarLink is bees knees. but i would argue that if you want to live off grid you’re a fucking idiot.