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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • Tesla now is definitely in panic mode! In my country they slashed the price of the model 3 by 4000 euro AND they’re doing mystery shopping inspections like the traditional carmakers!

    I make beer money with mystery shopping (Corporations pay me $2/hour to go to pretend to buy their product in their stores to report the customer experience). Traditional carmakers ask this to do all the time: KIA wants pictures of their ads in their dealers to see if the match the guidelines, Ford wants to know if i ask a oil change what price I will be quoted, Honda wants to know what people will be told if they ask to test drive a CBR650, and so on.

    New this month… TESLA! They never had to resort to this kind of stuff, that means they’re desperate.

    showing some mystery shops












  • They’re useful for printed media

    “Find more info at bitly/event” instead of “find more info at facebook.com/unnecessarilylongurlthatnobodyisgoingtotype”

    Or for a qr code where it needs to be small and somehow your URL is too long

    But yes, relying on a third party company for something that needs to last a long time isn’t really smart. There are many books that have online content now inaccessible because they used a link shortener that’s dead or that doesn’t let you update the redirection without paying a ransom (need to pay $120/year to bitly if you need to change the redirection)