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Solve : The Freedom to Cheat and Steal.? |
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Answer» Hey, this is off TOPIC. About a year ago, I WROTE about FreedomPop's new data service and shortly thereafter signed up for an account. I opted into the Free 500 MB plan, which offers half a gig of data per month, with additional data available at US$20/gigabyte billed in $2 increments.Scam? FRAUD? Hard to say. He kept the service for a year and reports that it did work. However, the claims made in the advertising are rather extreme. Please read over the link above and tell me what your opinion about the marketing methods use by that company. In what way is Freedom Pop cheating or Stealing? Seems to me, they deliver EXACTLY what they claim to deliver. Quote from: strollin on June 11, 2017, 01:18:25 PM In what way is Freedom Pop cheating or Stealing? Seems to me, they deliver EXACTLY what they claim to deliver.Thank you, strollin Granted the service Freedom pop offers is very low cost compared to almost anything else. The advertising uses the word Free a lot. This leads some simple fold to think it is free. I am that way. When I see the word 'free' I think it must be free. From the article, one has to pay a deposit of about $28 on the device and thne opt out of the premium plan. The you get a 'free' plan will cost about $8 per month over a time span of one year. Put another way, you pay at the start and ten after taht it will be free if you stay below the 'free' use level. Only after reading the article above did that become apparent. And it took the author year to find out. In my way of thinking, you should not have to wait a year to understand what kind of contract our have. Must be that my way of thinking is out-of-date. Yet in other areas government regulators come down hard on advertisers that make claims the confuse or do not clearly represent the true cost of a product or service. So maybe the Internet is an exception. On the Internet is is normal to mislead people. Especially if you have a service that is REMARKABLE. If you service is outstanding, go ahead and cheat and steal a little bit. Come to think of it, is that not the the same kind of thinking Microsoft uses? Quote From the article, one has to pay a deposit of about $28 on the device and thne opt out of the premium plan. The you get a 'free' plan will cost about $8 per month over a time span of one year. Put another way, you pay at the start and ten after taht it will be free if you stay below the 'free' use level. The Deposit only applies if you get their equipment. If you switch your existing smartphone/device to their service there is no direct cost as far as I can tell. There are a lot of things I've already found that seem to address the authors problems. It is possible to have access simply cut off when you reach the limit of the free plan, for example. The service is largely "Freemium". Saying it is false advertising is like saying it's false advertising when a grocery store has a promotion where any customer can get one free steak- saying "it's not really free" because you can't take two steaks seems to miss the point.Geek has had a bee in his bonnet about that Freedom Pop OUTFIT for some time, I think? His Post priviledges in the News section are close to being revoked... Check his last 10 Topics... Quote from: patio on June 11, 2017, 04:07:07 PM Check his last 10 Topics...100 more like. |
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