【海外の反応】「もう二度と契約できない伝説の生涯プラン」を今も使い続けてる猛者たちの自慢大会ｗｗｗ

Medic-alert. I was a sick little kid and got a bracelet in the 80s, before they switched to a subscription model. They sent me a new one a few years ago because my member number was so low that their system no longer supported it. The woman I talked to said “everyone with those numbers is DEAD” and then got super embarrassed.

My pension. I started in 2000 and was hired under a straight “work-for-30-years-and-you-can-fully-retire” plan. I’ve got 4 more years to go. I’ll be 53.

Then they changed it so that anyone hired after 2012 falls into a new category of the “Rule of 90” meaning your age plus the number of years you work have to equal 90.

When I was young my dad was a gym rat. I was a really well behaved kid, so his gym allowed me to go with him and get on an exercise bike or run around the track or just keep him company. When his gym closed in 1987 ish, he looked at all the gyms in the area to see if any of them would allow him to keep bringing me along. Most said no, but he finally found a club that allowed it, as long as he paid my membership fee and signed a waiver saying if I hurt myself, they weren't liable. So, I became a gym member when I was 8. That gym eventually got bought out by Chicago health club, then by Bally's, then by L.A. Fitness, but my membership terms stayed the same. I have the highest tier membership, meaning I can use any L.A. Fitness facility in the country, and I'm still paying the 1987 price for it. It comes out to just under 5 bucks a month.

My mother bought my brother a lifetime subscription to National Geographic when he was 10 years old. The magazine was offering a special promotion at that time. He is 62 now and I am pretty sure he still receives it.

I have a stupid good cellphone discount from an old job that was a partner of Cingular Wireless (old non-existent phone company brand of SBC) that was then transferred to AT&T after the buyout and rebranding. I left the company I worked for and left the discount on my account. For 20+ years, that baller discount has made it through however many plan changes, plan modifications, new phones etc. and not a single time has it ever been questioned. The only thing I’ve heard is “Jesus that’s a sick discount bro!”

My old company is now defunct. My original carrier no longer exists by name. My original mobile plan was originally attached to an OG Motorola RAZR. I’ve added U-verse and cancelled U-verse. Tons of account level touches. But that discount lives on. Forever.

2.75% interest mortgage

24 Hour Fitness Gym. I had been going for a while and was paying around $20 a month. They came to me and said that for only $550 they'd give me a three year membership. That was a really good deal, but I was reluctant to pay that much up front. Then they explained that after that, for life, it would be only $20 a year.

Each year that I pay my $20 they remind me that they sure don't give that deal anymore.

Before Better Sleep rebranded, I had paid for the app to remove ads and unlock more sounds. I can’t remember what their original name was. But anyway, I had replaced the phone that had it on there and I wanted to download it to my new phone and I noticed that they had a new name. And a subscription. I emailed their customer service and provided them the receipt from Google Play proving I paid for it. So they gave me a free lifetime subscription. I love that app.

We own the mineral rights for our house and also family property. They are currently leased, but it's not like we're getting rich off of them.

Been using my $0 cellphone plans since 2020 that was bundled with my internet. They removed the plans not long after cause they realized how much potential money they are losing.

This provider got bought and merged so the grandfathered plan is going to end I think 2027 or 2028 🙁