This apparently happens a lot with SD cards. They are marketed as 32gb, but fill up after 4gb. You have to be sure to get them from a legitimate vendor, otherwise, there is a good chance they are fake.
I know someone who bought 1000 32GB USB pens from ebay (he owns a computer shop). They all read as 32GB but are full after you put 2gb on them. I lol'd.
Seriously. It makes me wonder what point you have to hit to scam people out of stupid stuff like that. I mean really, an empty perfume bottle? Seriously? Almost makes me want to give people begging for a few dollars for "gas" the money just because you have to be at a pretty crappy point in your life to not be ashamed to con people out of a couple bucks.
Hmm... scammed... I dunno, I tend to be pretty savvy. I did call a psychic once, when I was like 15. But I was mostly just doing that for amusement.
In case everyone isn't already aware: there's no such thing as psychic power.
Can't remember anything else off the top of my head... other than just y'know, your standard "this item isn't as useful or well made as I had expected" - which doesn't really count.
Oh I've got a good one: I was a liberal for most of my life until recently. I'd say I got pretty damn well scammed there.
In 1999 I fell for the white van speaker scam. IIRC I spent $90. They did sound better than the speakers I had though and when you factor in the lesson it was money well spent.
Yes, I got duped into believing a liberal arts degree would be worth something.:'(
what did you do to get them for $90?
Once, on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. In my own defense I was drunk at the time.
"For 10 dollars, I'll tell you where you got your shoes, and what city you got them in."
lol
I've never been THAT drunk.
When I was a teenager, well before the internet, I was scammed by a telemarketing scheme. They convinced me that I just won a "3-D" camera, jewelry and some other stuff worth thousands of dollars, all I had to do was "pay the prize taxes" (btw, this was before I was a CPA ). Being naive and thinking "holy crap, I won something", I whipped out the credit card and paid $600. Got that package, and the "3-D" camera did produce pictures in "3-D", but it was still a cheap camera, the jewelry was cubic zirconia and the rest of the stuff was just crap. It came nicely boxed, though.
So you screwed your parents even then?
Jesus, you are really trying too hard these past few days here to be a man finally.
Don't try to scam us; you're way too self absorbed to have ever been truly liberal.
I think the most important thing regarding this subject, is don't be a cheap-ass, because honest businessmen cannot stand dealing with cheap-asses, the only people who enjoy doing business for cheap-asses are people intending to scam them. There is a definite fine line between being smart with your money and being cheap.