spaghettiwestern
@spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on How is this Amazon ad anything BUT a trick to get a 7 year old child to get their mitts on dad's phone and charge his credit card $13K in two clicks? 1 week ago:
I don’t think us mere mortals can hope to understand the mysteries of Amazon marketing services.
- Comment on So that's when I deleted my account 1 week ago:
Some problems with that:
- Companies routinely use more than one source address meaning I’m required to play whack-a-mole to maintain my filters.
- Setting up a content filter means wanted emails from other sources can be filtered out.
- The majority of users have absolutely no idea what a filter is.
- Comment on So that's when I deleted my account 1 week ago:
I had 2 of these just this week. Disney+ sent an ESPN ad with no way to unsubscribe, despite my having all marketing emails turned off. Their chat rep absurdly and laughably insisted it was not a marketing email, just a way to help people use their services.
Best Buy sent me a marketing ad with a $5 coupon (lol) attached and again no way to unsubscribe. All marketing emails were disabled with them too.
Both problems were easily solved by deleting my accounts.
- Comment on How is this Amazon ad anything BUT a trick to get a 7 year old child to get their mitts on dad's phone and charge his credit card $13K in two clicks? 1 week ago:
13K pesos, or about 650 dollars.
- Comment on Reddit Undeleted all my posts and comments 3 months ago:
I just checked and Reddit did the same with my account. I spent hours editing and ultimately deleting my posts and comments, and the Spez Gestapo just undeleted years worth of content… I’m going to go through them again and this time I’ll leave the gibberish.
- Comment on Artificial price increase so that you can post “discounts” on Prime Day 5 months ago:
80% of the items I considered had either jacked up the price prior to prime days, or advertised a large discount when the actual discount was tiny - a few percent. I ended up buying nothing. Amazon sucks.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 5 months ago:
Paypal locked my account after years of use for absolutely no reason. I never had a invalid charge, dispute, or any other kind of problem with it, just one day they decided to shut it down. They flatly refused to explain what was going on. With all the decent alternatives out there now there is no longer a reason to use their crappy service.
- Comment on Why do we have to do the health insurance company's job for them? 8 months ago:
It’s beyond belief, but insurance companies do the same thing to amputees.
- Comment on Why do we have to do the health insurance company's job for them? 8 months ago:
This is a feature, not a bug. We have all become unwilling, unpaid employees of every company in their pursuit of higher profits.
Corporations have discovered that there is no real downside (for them) when they don’t function. Customer satisfaction no longer has much of an impact on their profits because the few companies left in each sector are doing the exact same thing.
IMO this is yet another side effect of unchecked corporate power. It’s the same reason prices have risen so rapidly and corporate profits have reached 70 year highs. We are dealing with near monopolies and the billionaire class who created them. Until our government addresses the problem it’s not going to get any better.
In other words it’s not going to get better in our lifetimes.
- Comment on If you work for a gig app in the US they make you go thru this charade when doing taxes where you're treated and taxed as an independent business owner. joke country 11 months ago:
- Comment on I have to pay extra to remove ads from Prime Video 11 months ago:
True, we must all make sacrifices so Amazon’s profits can grow. Maybe their marketing department should call the increases a “Mandatory Donation for the Good of the World” to help us keep things in perspective.
- Comment on I have to pay extra to remove ads from Prime Video 11 months ago:
This is a 26% price hike. Amazon’s BS shouldn’t fool anyone.
- Comment on Single-bladed floating wind turbine promises half the cost, more power 1 year ago:
The blade is fixed to the mast at a slight upward angle. At low wind speeds, the mast tilts right over, and effectively the blade stays out of the water with the assistance of that dangling buoy. But as wind speeds pick up and the blade starts spinning fast, it develops lift, much like a helicopter’s main rotor, and begins pulling the mast upright.
Thus, in high wind speeds, it sits nearly flat to the horizon, greatly limiting the wind’s ability to spin it faster. And as this happens, the buoy is lifted out of the water, becoming a ballast weight acting against the lift of the main blade, helping to reduce stress on the sea floor anchors and prevent the whole thing from taking off and starting a new life where nobody knows its name.
If it works it’s brilliant.
- Comment on Paid full price and got this in the mail (open box). GameStop and I have different definitions of “new” 1 year ago:
State law always trumps seller policies. The seller can force you to check a box agreeing to their terms of sale but those terms are not enforceable if state law gives you other rights. Unenforceable clauses have been in literally every contract or terms of sale I’ve ever read.
Rightful rejection laws make sense too, especially when you start looking at large purchases. Let’s say you ordered a black car from a dealer 500 miles away and the dealer delivered a pink one. The terms of sale say that you have to return the car to the dealer and pay a restocking fee for a refund. Those terms mean that the dealer has no obligation to deliver what you ordered or paid for and will make a profit (from you) even if they deliver something you didn’t order. That’s where Rightful Rejection laws become indispensable. All you have to do by law is make the product available for retrieval by the seller.
Funny you should mention Amazon - I’m literally dealing with this issue this week. They sent me a DOA item that has to be sent back. Amazon suddenly wants to charge me a fee to return a defective item that they have the legal obligation to retrieve. While I don’t mind dropping things off at a UPS store because I’m regularly a block away, they want me to make a special trip to a Staples or Whole Foods which is not convenient or reasonable. I was just going to order a replacement from them, but because of their new return fee I won’t be buying the replacement from Amazon, or much else going forward. My Amazon purchases will easily decrease by 90%.
Here’s the rub - a retailer does not have to continue to do business with you. If you force Amazon to retrieve an item they can close your account and refuse to sell to you again.
- Comment on Paid full price and got this in the mail (open box). GameStop and I have different definitions of “new” 1 year ago:
From an old Reddit post of mine:
If you buy an item and the seller sends one that differs significantly from the description or is defective, you have the right to reject the item and require the seller to retrieve it at their expense - no matter what the seller’s return policy says. You also have the right to a full refund. Rightful Rejection is part of state law and based on the Uniform Commercial Code. It is also written into Visa International’s rules. Don’t believe Citibank representatives or anyone else who tells you otherwise.
If you don’t want to pay new prices for a used item, it’s 100% up to GameStop to make it right. They have to pay to retrieve it and for return shipping. They have to give you a full refund on everything, including shipping charges.
- Comment on higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs 1 year ago:
A list of L.A. restaurants doing this shit from a Reddit sub: