extrusions

On Mon, 13 May 2019 11:18:44 -0700 (PDT), jurb6006@gmail.com wrote:

I've always wondered how people know how long they will live to >buy a lifetime supply. Or in this case, how they know how long >the product will live?

Life is apparently a relative term. I had a credit card that was 3.9% fixed for life. Well that turned out to be the life of the bank. they got bought out and went to LIBOR+spread. My rte was still pretty low. I almost decided to reject the new agreement. Many people do not know, if they stick it to you with interest or whatever, you can refuse and you have to make the minimum payments under the old terms and not use the card. I didn't for a while but then there as this time I wanted something and well, this interest is still lower than that interest so I used it. It was still only like 7.5%. That is low for cards I hear.

Or the credit contract. They cancel your card and the contract is
"dead".

>Tektronix had a lifetime warranty on all their transformers. Well when I called to get one for my 561A they gave me a price and I mentioned that warranty and they said "We've already been to court on that so you're welcome to try".

But S&H was $250.

Like Publisher's Clearinghouse. Seems soem people noticed all the winners of the prize of like $2,500 a week for life were won by old geezers 91 years old with oxygen machines, ostomy bags and catheters hanging off of them - so now they let you assign it for after you die so it is for the assignee's lifetime. I'd find the youngest person I know...

What gets me is those GPS units truck drivers use. Lifetime updates but it is only a couple hundred, like forever. They must be counting on people getting out of the business or retiring, dying or some shit. I'm sure they do not plan on sending free updates in the year 2525.

The units won't last forever. I have a Garmin in my truck (I bought
it for the back-up camera) that has a lifetime map update. It doesn't
cost them all that much to crank out new maps. They're getting paid
out of the new products sold. It's just another arrangement of bits.

Lifetime is another word like "free". Yeah, this ten buck thing is yours for free if you pay the shipping. That is ten bucks.

"Lifetime", "Free", "Easy", none of those words have any meaning anymore, they are just advertising jargon.

Sure they do. Same as they always did, really.