The two ways of fighting profiteering

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I simply pulled the knob off in the store & shoved the rest of the stove up my butt, later at home I printed the missing knob. It's a simple life-hack, basically everyone is doing it.
- Is this why your meatloaf always smells funky?
- I hate that as a society it is somehow ok to steal for your convenience. Its the same thing with lots of other things as well. Don't you just love it when you buy a product only to get home and find half of it was stolen?
  
  A while back I would use those local secondhand auctions that mostly dealt in amazon returns. (As opposed to directly buying from amazon.)
  I'm surprised how everything would be intact for a lot of items, but most commonly if I got bamboozled, it was something like, everything is fine except for missing a set of screws, or a single crucial knob or something.
  People literally will just order the same thing again, pull the part they missed, and instantly return it. Which is especially scummy when it's no longer a secret these returns just get destroyed or incinerated for no reason.
  It's just disgusting consumer-brain behavior. (Amazon, of course, being sheer evil, enjoys the market advantage of a "no questions" return policy.)
  If it was a very specialty piece beyond a simple hardware store run, a lot of times I've been lucky enough to politely contact the manufacturer of a thing, sometimes I tell them I got it as a gift so they don't ask for a proof of purchase. And they'll just send me the missing bit. Free. Super simple. The most I had to do was take a picture of the model tag.
  The fact that this was too much for people to bother with grosses me out.
- Wes Watson over here.

When an artificer and a rouge are faced with the same problem.
Edit: my english sucks
- What does makeup have to do with this?
  
  Rogue is not spelled rouge.

YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A BOSCH OVEN KNOB

Still cheaper than getting a 3D printer and filament and stuff. And CAD/CAM software.
- It's true that you should not expect to save money in the short or long run with 3d printing as a hobby, but if it's your thing then it's nice to have a hobby that's occasionally useful. Also, autodesk fusion is free for consumer use.

My oven is so old I came across an identical one in an e-waste pile behind a store. I stole the timer knob and mechanism so I don't need to keep using the broken one (manual only) anymore.
- You didn't steal it, you 💫recycled💫.
  
  *Reused, which is preferred to recycling even if the materials are 100% recyclable.
  That's what I told to the store employee I encountered coming to work via the back door. He wasn't too happy but ultimately let me do it.

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