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Gas Scam
Ever pull into a gas station because the price was right and then after you get your receipt you find the price was all wrong?
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Car Alarm Remotes Scam
There is a scam I have noticed with these things.
The unlock button is always the first to go out. Not the lock but the unlock. For every time you unlock the door, you had to lock the dang thing. So why exactly is it that the unlock goes out first ? Simply put; you have to buy a new remote if the unlock goes out first. Otherwise, everytime you get in your car, the alarm will go off till you get the key in the ignition. Locking the car you can do by hitting the switch on the way.
It’s a simple scam. The metallic material they smear on the back of the button to make contact with the board on the remote is obviously wiped on much thinner. Once the metallic area wears out, your remote no longer works. If they made it so you couldn’t lock your doors, then people would have noticed, or complained about a whole other issue “I CAN’T LOCK MY DOOR BECAUSE YOU MADE A CRUMMY REMOTE, NOW MY CAR IS STOLEN…. YOU SUCK!!!”. That simple. So it avoids that issue.
The embarrassment of having to stand there and punch your remote 200000 times before you can get in the or fall the alternative of jamming the key in the door and the hurrying to put key in ignition to stop the horn from honking, is reason enough for you to just buy a new one. The one thing that keeps getting overlooked is the simple fact that your door lock button works fine. I swear I have gone through 5 different remotes and they all wore out the unlock button, but never the lock. It sucks because sometimes it works , sometimes it doesn’t. But I can guarantee you it will not work at times I need it to. Raining. leaving some formal event (lol me formal but ok you get it). Struttin it to my car while there is some super hot female walking around/nearby/starring at me. Right after I did something embarrassing and really need to save face. See it’s a perfect scam. You can bypass the alarm issue by manually locking the doors and waiting a few seconds and the alarm auto sets. You can sit there and wait all day, it will not unlock. It’s perfect it for the “grand finale”. It acts up when you need to make the exit when people are most likely to look at you so what do you do out of vanity???? by a new remote of course.
So deep down, I think there is something funny about how cheap the unlock portion of the remote is. Would be cool if there was some quality control organization that could do ninja pop ins on remote companies and bust them for purposely doing that. I mean really the remote came with the car new. Less than 5 months ago and it’s dead. On the unlock. Past two cars did it a few times.. Never the lock button, even though the only time I don’t use the remote to lock and set the doors, is when I know the unlock is broke and I need a cool exit. Would be cooler if I had a damn remote.
That’s it, vanity. It’s their way of justifying it. It’s scam. lol. That would insinuate they actually did more thinking about marketing other than “me make, you buy, me need you buy more!.. unga bunga!!!”
Ok might seem extreme to call it a scam or a conspiracy. It sure bothers me.
