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by jameshart 3818 days ago
If that conveys how people really use the service, then, to many people, it also conveys that the people who use the service are, on average, lazy rich douchebags. If that isn't what you want to portray about your brand, you might want to reconsider your examples.
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It conveys that the users are rich, yes. What about it makes them lazy or douchebags? Assuming you're rich, is it a logical use of your time to, for instance, go through the process of tracking down and renting a bunch of cars for some event online? Or would it make more sense to pay someone else $100/hour (considerably less than the opportunity cost of doing it yourself) to do it for you?

Does wanting to meet a celebrity make you a lazy douchebag? Or is it the presumption that it might actually be possible? Renting a venue last minute? Perhaps they lazily left it until the last minute, but perhaps there's another explanation?

The Jason Bourne one is eccentric at least, but surely wanting to engage in that kind of extreme training is anything but lazy.

There's a certain 'I'm bored. Bring me Tina Fey' kind of tone to it that seems, oh, maybe just a little bit entitled and self centered.
Most of those things would probably cost you a whole lot less if, unlike 80% of the examples, they weren't "extreme/extravagant request, NOW NOW NOW!".
> It conveys that the users are rich, yes. What about it makes them lazy or douchebags?

Envy, class warfare, and socialist propaganda.

http://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/hicks...