On buying the wrong thing

I’ve done this many times.

Perhaps you have too.

Maybe it’s a product that promised to save you time or money, but saved you neither (and had a refund policy that didn’t quite extend to the very day you realised this).

Maybe it’s a professional service that promised to take some work off your shoulders and create certain results for you, but was instead a glorified course-in-disguise with an airtight contract that leaves you hanging.

These things happen. Tedious, expensive mistakes, fuelled by a cesspit of lies we colloquially call “marketing”.

We can ask for refunds and get what we’re granted. We can try to make the most of what we have when we have it. But there’s no point in kicking ourselves for not seeing precisely that which was deliberately hidden from us.

We can simply elect to be better than these people.

We can simply elect to protect those in our choice of market from similar charlatanry.

It’s down to us.