- Hey, guess what. Companies are ripping you off every day and I'm not talking about
little obscure companies. I'm talking about the biggest ones that you use all the time. Ever watch Netflix or drink Starbucks? Hmm, keep watching. Here are 10 ways companies
are secretly ripping you off every day. Number 10 is brand name
versus generic medication. Research released by the
Mayo Clinic on June 13, 2013 showed roughly 70% of all Americans are on some type of prescription drug. In case you didn't know, the drug industry is a
very profitable business, especially when you opt to
purchase the name brand medicine over the generic one. But why do so many of us
pay double or even triple the cost of generic for
a fancier named one? Well companies would like you to believe that your need to spend more comes from their need to spend more on research and marketing of newer drugs as they bring them to the market. However, switching to generic
brands has saved people in the United States
over a trillion dollars over the last decade. On top of that generics
are, according to the FDA, almost the exact same
as name brand versions as it must have the same concentration of active medicinal ingredients. So next time you have a
headache, don't take Advil. Take Adveal, the Russian substitute. Okay don't take that. That sounds shady. But you get the idea. Number nine are thicker beer glasses. A number of restaurants have swapped their traditional pint glasses
for a much thicker version with much shorter insides than outsides. If you haven't noticed that's
completely understandable since the glass makers have
used tricks in the design to deceive you into thinking
you're still getting a full pint's worth of 473 milliliters. The truth is you're more
likely getting around 414. Additionally bartenders are often advised to leave a minimum height of
froth at the top of your glass. And what's most annoying about this is that the price of
alcohol is always increasing and the public has overall accepted this. But to up the charge for a pint of beer and decrease the amount that
you're getting is pretty low. The only thing that's
increasing is the amount that you're getting ripped off! So next time you're at a bar or restaurant and they give it to you in a thick mug, it's not cause it keeps it colder. It's cause they're trying to rip you off. Remember that. Number eight are cinemas
not changing lenses. With the rising costs of
movie tickets and concessions it's kind of hard not to see the rip offs in a cinema-going experience. But the surprising cheat here comes from the movie
viewing experience itself. A large number of theaters
these days show 3-D movies in the same theaters that
you can watch a 2-D movie in. The projectors aren't
switched to allow this but the lenses are supposed to be. And guess what, cheaper
theaters refuse to swap out a 3-D lens when a 2-D
movie is about to be shown due to the amount that it
costs to swap the lenses and the large amount of
time that it takes to do so. The 3-D film's polarization
effects the lens so when a 2-D movie is shown, it appears dampened and much darker, often by as much as 85%. So if you're ever
watching a brand new movie and wonder why it looks so
bleak, now you know why. Greediness. Number seven is microwave popcorn. Mmm, this popcorn is so good! Yeah, you like that Little Timmy? That's the taste of
you getting ripped off. In 1981 a convenience was unveiled that brought the movie
theater's most treat into people's homes. Today pretty much every grocery store carries multiple brands
of microwave popcorn. But even though it's widely available, that doesn't make it a bargain by any stretch of the imagination. First off a package of popping corn, that you'd normally need a
clunky popcorn maker to pop, on average costs less than
half for the same amount that you get in the microwave version. But you can still use the
microwave by using a paper bag and folding over the top several times. A little melted butter and it's
just like the instant stuff. And secondly instant popcorn
is often far more unhealthy. Yeah, that's right. I just ruined your favorite
home treat for a lot of y'all. Believe it or not, many
brands use a toxic chemical in their popcorn called perfluorooctanoic, that can cause infertility and cancer, on the inside of the bags. And who wants to eat that? To be clear, I'm saying this
chemical is on the inside of the bag, that can
rub off on the popcorn. I'm not expecting any of
you to actually eat the bag. And if you are, you're gonna getta sick! Number six is air in ice cream. Here's an experiment for you. Fill a shot glass with
ice cream and let it melt. What you'll find is
that the melted version takes up a lot less of the glass than the frozen ice cream did. Why? Because of all of the air in it. Although it's true that air, or overrun, is required for ice cream
to be, well, ice cream, there is a point where
it becomes excessive. Matt's about to ruin ice cream for ya! Manufacturers must use air
to keep the product soft but while real, authentic
ice only requires around 25% of it to consist of overrun, most of these companies choose
to use a much higher number, many surpassing 100%. So the law stepped in and declared that only 50% of an ice cream
product can be made up of air. So to get around this law, instead of reducing the amount of overrun, the company started labeling the product something else other than ice cream. They started calling it
frozen dairy dessert. So if you're ever at the grocery store and you're looking for ice cream and it says frozen dairy
dessert, stay away from it. They're trying to rip you off. Number five is bottled water. Okay, a lot of you probably
already suspected this but allow me to confirm it for you. In the United States well
over 61 trillion calories have been cut from the
average person's diet due to the ever increasing
popularity of bottled water. However, not only are
around 80% of those bottles finding their way into landfills but the actual water you're consuming could very well be a rip off. While many huge corporations,
including Coke and Pepsi, seem to be doubling down on the varieties of bottled water that they offer, that healthier option may
actually be the exact same water that flows freely from
your kitchen faucet. Or what's worse, it could
actually be less healthy due to the deteriorating
plastic and additives. On average customers pay over
300 times for bottled water what they'd pay for
just drinking tap water that they can get at home. Now this doesn't apply everywhere but in most places it's better just to get a refillable water bottle than to keep buying it
from convenience stores. Just make sure you do your
research about where you live before you drink the tap water cause I don't want any of
you coming back to this video a leaving a comment saying
oh my God, I pooped my pants, in all caps. That's gonna happen now
no matter what, isn't it? Number four is chicken plumping. It's a finger-licking rip off! Since the early 1970s
poultry farmers and producers have been using a
technique that they claim makes their meats juicier and tastier but what they're really
doing is ripping you off. The process is called plumping and it involves injecting
water into the meat so that its weight is increased. A saltwater solution
containing a bonding agent is injected through multiple needles so the sodium enters the muscles. The bonding agent then goes to work making sure that the water
and salt don't seep out when temperatures change, or when the meat moves
around during transport. The thing is the meat
is weighed and priced after the solution is injected. Which means that when you buy some chicken at your local supermarket you're not paying for just
the meat, but for saltwater. Nothing like paying $8 a kilogram for chicken water, am I right? (coughs) Rip off. (clucks) Number three is air in chip bags. Oh yes, if you've ever
eaten a bag of chips and you've ever suspected this, allow me to confirm it for you. We've all torn open a bag of potato chips only to find more empty,
greasy air than chips. According to Lays and other chip companies that emptiness is left
there for a good reason. The process in which that space I made is called slack-fill and it's done so that
chips can move around inside the packaging during
the shipping process, so that they're not crushed
when moving side to side or forced into small boxes, et cetera. To try to counter this
seemingly misleading issues the Fair Packaging and
Labeling Act was passed at the Federal level back in 1966, which said that companies
had to properly label the net weight of what
was actually inside. But many companies today still
rely on consumer's inability to properly judge how
much should be in a bag, and under-fill them. So technically potato chip companies are abiding by the law but often the labeling
of the weight is so small that they hope you don't notice it or they're just assuming you're
too dumb to figure it out. I know that's not gonna stop you guys from eating potato chips but
at least now you're informed. Number two is Netflix
throttles your speed. Yes, the company that
brought you Stranger Things that you've been binge watching
for the last three days, I see you, they're purposely making
it more difficult to do so. And it's kind of counterintuitive. It's actually because they
don't want you to stop watching. The logic behind it is this. If Netflix throttles down you
streaming speed and quality you'll use less data and won't blame them for higher data costs that come from your cell
phone and internet provider. Meaning that you're more likely to not cancel your Netflix subscription. They literally rip you off
in an effort to help you. Netflix openly admitted this
practice in March of 2016 saying that they'd actually
been doing it for five years, as statistics showed that it was working. They believe their
users prefer low quality and longer loading times to having no Netflix until
the next billing cycle. So technically they're ripping you off by giving you less HD
than you're paying for but people seem to want it. I don't know, I'll leave
that one up to you guys. And number one is Starbucks under-fills. While some places increase prices and decrease product sizes, others rely on their employees
to shortchange customers. At many Starbucks
locations baristas are told to always leave space at the top of a cup instead of filling it to the brim. In other restaurants a
fill line was introduced so that baristas wouldn't even be aware that they were ripping
off their customers. Well guess what, Starbucks
actually does both, putting in a fill line
lower than it needs to be and they tell their servers to
leave at least a quarter inch of space at the top of each hot beverage. One study revealed the
coffee chain powerhouse was actually serving
around 25% less coffee than the cups advertised
that they could hold. Starbucks of course had
a long list of reasons why they give less product
than they promise to customers but a lot of people are
ticked off about this. Well we only filled it half-way because people don't
like full cups of coffee. Okay, bye! So that was 10 ways that companies are secretly ripping you off every day. And if you guys enjoyed this remember to give it a big thumbs up. Also be sure to subscribe
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