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Access you had right up until someone noticed you were using it.
REI Let Customers Return Anything, at Any Time, for 75 Years. Among the Things That Came Back Was a Snowsuit Bought in 1970 to Climb Mount Rainier.
Recreational Equipment Inc. was founded in 1938 and is organised as a cooperative. From the start it offered a 100 percent satisfaction guarantee, and the guarantee had no expiry date. If a piece of gear failed to satisfy, it could be brought back to the store, and the store took
AT&T Sold Unlimited Data, Then Began Slowing Customers Down After Two Gigabytes. Eight Years Later It Paid $60 Million, Which Came to About Seventeen Dollars Each.
AT&T sold unlimited data plans in the era when the iPhone was new and nobody had a reliable model of how much data a telephone would eventually consume. The plans were popular, the estimate turned out to be wrong, and in 2010 the company stopped offering them to
Chase Let You Collect the Same Sign-Up Bonus Every Four Years. Now You Get It Exactly Once, Ever.
Chase, like most card issuers, dangled a large welcome bonus to pull in new Sapphire cardholders, with one rule limiting how often any one person could collect it: not within 48 months of the last time they'd earned it. That rule survived for years. In June 2025, Chase
Venmo's Payments Were Public by Default for Years. The FTC Had Questions.
For years, Venmo's default setting broadcast who you paid, when, and often why — a public social feed built on top of a payment app, as if splitting a pizza bill were content. The FTC eventually decided that "bank-grade security" and "your transactions are private&
Bed Bath & Beyond's Coupon Never Expired. Neither Did the Damage It Was Doing.
A 20%-off coupon so generous it became the default price, until the company that printed it went bankrupt.
Facebook Let a Personality Quiz Harvest 87 Million Profiles
One professor's app collected data on 300,000 people who took a quiz, and on 87 million people who never touched it.
L.L.Bean Ends Its 100-Year No-Questions-Asked Return Policy
The guarantee said 100% satisfactory, forever, no receipt required. It survived two world wars. It did not survive eBay.