Seagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms
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About 12 years ago, I promised an agent at Safeco (AKA Liberty Mutual) that they would never get another penny from me because they wouldn't honor the terms of my policy, refusing to pay the full amount on a vehicle collision claim. They're just another business that doesn't keep their word. But I absolutely plan to keep mine.
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I had a similar training selling stuff for a remodeling company.
I quit on the second day of training. It felt gross, and I told them I was really uncomfortable with their tactics and that’s 100% why I was quitting..
I also don’t watch tv and go out of my way to avoid ads
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Shit that can happen only in the us.
Over here (eu) 12months warranty is mandated by law and 24months warranty is a reality in most countries.
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We should hang out sometime. You sound pleasant!
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Do not buy from unofficial resellers
Good advice in general; but in this case many of the fraudulent drives were reportedly purchased from the official sellers listed on Seagates website.
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I've read the article and I couldn't see any implication of Seagate.
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The “crossed off the list for life“ strategy doesn’t much work for me either… but we’re best off keeping score somehow, for sure.
Could be boycotting companies most recently in the news for bad behavior, or who are doing the greatest harm
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Yeah, vote with your wallet !! This has way more impact than those stupid presidential ballot! Good call staying behind your belief for so long !!!
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Seems like that should be illegal, like changing the odometer on a car, but what do I know.
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They should hold their resellers to a standard. It isnt entirely their fault but they should have QA working on how people receive their products.
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I'm skeptical the market is ever going to have principles, for every person that has gotten burned and become personally aware of shady practices, there are many more that aren't aware and don't have the incentive or ability to do research to find out. Seems like the sort of thing where the system is rigged in favor of scammers if consumer choice is the only regulation.
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The problem is the information asymmetry, there is always another person for a fraudulent company to exploit due to a dysfunctionally expensive court system. Its why we need market level regulations and public institutions that recover peoples money and fine the organisations for their breaches. This sort of thing works a lot better in the EU than in the US due to the sales laws, the ability to return within 2 weeks, default warranty on goods out to 12 months and expectations of goods to be as advertised forced onto the retailers. They work, they need more enforcement from regulatory bodies but retailers do follow them for the most part and quickly change tune when you go to take legal action when they don't because courts know these laws inside and out.
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I wonder if this is why their store has been offline for over a month. Had an order cancelled, after sitting for 3 weeks. Got a voucher for 50% off “when the store open”. Still waiting…
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Chia is grown, not mined.
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Long term boycottes are the best thing - IF you can get large numbers to follow. Large enough that management schools are forced to teach about how ever real reform won't be enough to save you from bad actions.
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Oh, I agree with that. Part of the cost of a product is how much bother the consumer will have to put forth to get their desired use out of it. That's part of what a brand is supposed to communicate to a buyer.
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Large enough that management schools are forced to teach about how ever real reform won’t be enough to save you from bad actions.
Sadly, in the world of multinational business, that isn't how management schools perceive boycotts.
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Thankfully the other two haven’t fallen as hard as Seagate has.
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Thankfully the other two haven’t fallen as hard as Seagate has.
If you want keep thinking that don't look too hard at Western Digital's scandals and catastrophic drive failures of the past. In my early working days I made good money swapping out hundreds of failing Western Digital hard drives.
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Then we’re all screwed thanks to consolidation.
