How can you do research without victims complaining?

Why wouldn't victims complain?

Because when they do, they receive snide remarks like "just don't buy their stuff then".

Nobody is saying you can't relate your experience with this equipment. What we're saying is consumer action is enough to solve this problem. It just takes some time.

There's a certain type of customer that wants the dealer to handle parts and repair. But those guys aren't the lawn mower segment.

> What we're saying is consumer action is enough to solve this problem.

Citation needed

Might be hard for them to do that given this lawsuit is hard proof that it isn't true.

Is it? You've never been to a grocery store?

I have not been to a grocery store that sells "Deere-brand Large Ag Equipment"[0] - aka $200k-1M John Deere tractors/harvesters/combines - that are the subject of the settlement. Have you?

[0]: https://www.agri-pulse.com/ext/resources/pdfs/gov.uscourts.i...

My point is "competition works".

You're posting in a thread discussing news of a legal outcome that showed that free market competition did not prevent anti-competitive practices and instead required legal/regulatory intervention to solve.

To say that these are "anti-competitive practices" is stretching the phrase beyond all meaning. If you don't like Deere's policies, you can always buy from Case IH or New Holland. There is plenty of competition in farm equipment.

Most can't "always" immediately replace an incredibly expensive business asset that is only retroactively discovered to have been sold under deceptive terms. The free market works well in many instances, but it needs checks to ensure that it remains truly free and not captured by fraudulent actors that harm consumers and society at large.

Trump is probably being black mailed. Epstein must have given them some really heinous footage of Trump on camera.

Trump cancelled the Iran deal, replaced it with nothing and now Iran has found an infinite money glitch.

From seeing enough fiction, I know that the Armageddon cults are never the good guys.

"We've had vicious kings, and we've had idiot kings, but I don't think we've ever been cursed with a vicious idiot for a king!"

Americans do not have the stomach to eat losses like Russia does. This is not een existential war for America. Having daily drone footage of American soldiers getting their face blown off won't do well at home. Casualties will be much higher than Iraq and Afghanistan.

Trump cancelled the Iran deal. Now the US has nothing and Iran has found an infinite money glitch.

If the new status quo is that Iran will control the strait then te rest of the world will just pay toll to Iran.

Ironically Jesus always had beef with the religious conservatives of His time: the Pharisees.

I will predict right now that no revolution will happen. Revolutions happen because of fragmentation within the regime. If there is one thing that puts all grievances aside then that would be an existential war. Just like during the Iran-Iraq war.