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Consumer Strikes Back at Crooked Online Retailer
BigBadLad writes "Seems like customers are at a huge disadvantage when dealing with dishonest retailers. This is the story of a man who had a horrible experience with an online camera retailer. In short he was lied to, yelled at, and threatened to be sued if he posted the experience on his blog. He was also persuaded to sign an agreement that would allow the retailer to charge him an extra $100 if he left bad feedback."
I hate dealing with camera dealers in the North East. Most of the disreputable/dishonest ones are in the New York and New Jersey area. They will typically advertise superb prices on their merchandise and then when you place the order they typically tell you that you need to buy additional items that normally should come prepackaged with the item. Another trick they use is, if you call them to place the order, after you've given them your CC info they'll tell you that the item is backordered and you'll get in 4-6 months. arrrrrghh!
About 90% of these stores in New York and New Jersey are owned by hasidic Jews. The cheating methods they use are standard practice.
I'm just talking about peoples' experiences, not what you've read.
E.g. Hasidim are infamous for cheating people -- including other non-hasidim who consider themselves Jews. Ask any Israeli -- it causes a lot of conflict.
Likewise, please consider the case of Mexicans and Blacks. Mexicans are infamous for killing their girlfriends when they get in disputes. Blacks are famous for carjackings. But if you read what they think of as their holy book (The Holy Bible), it is clear that stealing and killing girlfriends (or just premarital sex) are forbidden. And if a black or Mexican were to do those things, he'd have to do a great deal of penance.
However, as you may or may not know, Hasidim have different standards for cheating Jews vs. cheating gentiles. It is part of their religion. A hasid published a book on this recently, and it is a big deal, because he lays it all out: http://www.rense.com/general48/newbook.htm -- where Orthodox Jews recommend to other Orthodox that the gentiles are evil and a different species. And that a Jew should deceive them about their true feelings -- e.g. don't tell the gentiles that you think they are evil, and of a different species.
http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_law/when_to_
Judaism is the oldest still-surviving religion and it carries pretty primitive values, almost as high as cavemen values.
For example, non-jews are considered shit, and fair-game.
Having been picked upon throughout most of History, jews have developped the habit of concentrating wealth in order to lose as little as possible when forced to move, hence their reliance on gold, diamonds or, more intelligently, on knowledge (now that's something you can't pry from someone's head).
Unfortunately, their overreliance on wealth and disregard of ethical rules towards non-jews make that a disproportionate amount of scammers are jewish, thus fueling even more the universal resentment displayed towards the jews throughout the world and History, often escalating to very high level of horrors (the shoah, for example - this did not happen by accident; when some people decide to industrially exterminate another one, there has to be a very good reason, and the fact is that the jews have historically accumulated a lot of bad press).
By comparison, expatriated chinese (the oldest surviving civilization, by the way) are just as trade savvy as the jews, but as they do not think that non-chinese are only worthy of being screwed, you do not see any universal resentment against the chinese.
It is unfortunate that the jews have not learned from the lessons of the shoah, and have returned more arrogant than ever by stealing some land in the Middle-East all the while manipulating a nuclear superpower into fraudulently backing them (with the huge expense of international goodwill), thus fueling even more hatred against themselves and towards the superpower.
As long as this will last, you can expect someone to start yet another shoah eventually if the jews don't learn that their crappy religion is bringing them lots of trouble and they oughta dump it so they can live in peace with others.
Other people dumped their religion when it gave them trouble before (the french, for example), so they jews can very well do the same.