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Never sign up for a “lifetime” subscription offer or “lifetime” one time purchase.

Rolling Stone promised subscribers a 'lifetime' print magazine for just $99—now they’re canceling and readers are 'enraged' fortune.com/2024/06/05/rolling

@WarnerCrocker

One place where “lifetime offer” actually works, and is honored. It’s with the most reviled, hated, mocked, distrusted company around: Tesla.

For years they offered lifetime free unlimited Supercharging of select makes/models. My first 2013 Tesla offered it and I went for it. Put 120K mi on car in 7 years. Never paid a dime to charge. Traded it in in 2020 for another Tesla that was one of the last to offer the deal. In 4 years, ~90K mi so far, still never paid a dime to charge.

@brianstorms I don’t doubt at all what you’re saying. But 11 years isn’t much of a lifetime in the grand scheme of things.

@WarnerCrocker Lol, expected that reply.

It’s fine. Do the math on what 210,000 miles of gas station fillups would cost. About the same as a truckload full of mint retail copies of every Rolling Stone magazine issue ever published, for starters.

Warner Crocker

@brianstorms I knew you did. That math makes sense. Would need quite a few Tesla trucks to haul that load.