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Krispy Kareem posted:It's so easy to fire people, even if they are a protected class or have legal protections. Just look at those poor Wells Fargo employees who were canned for reporting illegal activity. It's taken tens of thousands of hours of media coverage and loving Senate testimony for them to even get a shot at legal remedy. And even then, it's only the sheer scope of the crime that makes lawsuits viable. Depends on the specific management, it only takes one not playing ball...
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Sundae posted:I literally can't believe that scam works. As in, I do not believe the Reddit poster at all. Either that's not the full scam or it's a fake post. Amazon opens and inspects FBA merchandise regardless of new or used status, including the stickerless commingled. (https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201231500) This is from last week but I was just thinking I had never had an order mistake from Amazon when I got a new package today. I ordered 6 cork drink coasters. They shipped me the box that the seller had sent to FBA (still had the other labels on it). Inside was 72 coasters. They shipped me the entire inventory of this poor seller instead of just one item. I emailed Amazon to see if they care/what they want me to do. Still waiting for a response.
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Zero One posted:This is from last week but I was just thinking I had never had an order mistake from Amazon when I got a new package today. Usually they'll ask you to mail it back but not really follow up to make sure you do it.
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Nov 4, 2016 23:59
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I wasn't planning on opening a bar so I don't really need 72 coasters. As long as they don't expect me to pay postage I have no problem sending them back.
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Nov 5, 2016 00:31
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Zero One posted:I wasn't planning on opening a bar so I don't really need 72 coasters. As long as they don't expect me to pay postage I have no problem sending them back. Nah, they just ask you to print out a mailing label
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Nov 5, 2016 00:48
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Note that there are laws that say you have exactly zero obligation to actually send them back. It's up to you whether you want to go to the trouble.
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Nov 5, 2016 01:13
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Whenever I get the wrong thing or something I never ordered, they just tell me to keep it. The merchant may have not packaged it correctly when sending it Amazon. In that case you might have won a lifetime supply or cork.
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I do a fair bit of sales on Amazon myself. One of our customers was shipped a quantity of 20 instead of 2 of a particular item. Amazon reimbursed us for fair market value of the item ( basically 75% of asking price ) about 2 weeks later after submitting the ticket. They are very customer centered and do not go after customers. In short, would not worry about it. In BWM news, a co-worker today just announced that they took out a 401k loan to start their family's side business. He bought into Advisor level for selling Advocare and a newer MLM called plexus. 
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Krispy Kareem posted:Whenever I get the wrong thing or something I never ordered, they just tell me to keep it. Ding ding ding. Just got this reply, I'm sharing it because you'd think they'd have a form letter for this instead of what I got: quote:I understand your concern. Please allow me to help you. I feel like I'm getting a Nigerian scam letter or something. Oh well. I guess I have stocking stuffers for Christmas now.
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Zero One posted:Ding ding ding. Just got this reply, I'm sharing it because you'd think they'd have a form letter for this instead of what I got: That is actually the form letter. Amazon's lovely same-day package delivery company loses my packages all the time, and the first time it happened I contacted Amazon about it and got the same sort of "real"-sounding message just like that and felt really good about their customer service. The second time they lost a package I got a very similar letter. I have now seen it 5 different times.
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Nov 5, 2016 02:28
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Sharing my cork pics
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Nov 5, 2016 02:31
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I don't think anyone likes Michigan that much.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I don't think anyone likes Michigan that much. Maybe upper peninsula people
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^^^ don't be dissin the mittenZero One posted:Sharing my cork pics Hi fellow Michigander, I would happily take some of those off your hands if you don't want them all. Sirotan fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Nov 5, 2016 |
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Nov 5, 2016 03:30
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Richlove posted:He bought into Advisor level for selling Advocare and a newer MLM called plexus.
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Zero One posted:Sharing my cork pics
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I can't really compete with autographed erotica, but I will trade you some undying affection for a set
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Not a Children posted:I can't really compete with autographed erotica, but I will trade you some undying affection for a set My girlfriend's mom is from Michigan, can I have a set?!
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Zero One posted:Sharing my cork pics I don't know why but this picture has given me the biggest chuckle I've had for a long time. MICHIGAN.
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Holy poo poo MLM's are predating on the extra young these days. A high-school friend of my brothers tried to recruit him for ACN. My 18 year old brothers take on it (lightly edited from facebook chat): "I mentioned to Euan before we went in "Man this sounds like a pyramid scheme", he's like "no, trust me". Halfway through i'm like 'well this sounds a bit morally hosed up'. Then they started talking about integrity.... It's an interesting business model, I'll give them that". On his friend who invited him: "He's not the smartest tool in the shed, went to high school with him - he failed pretty miserably and is a day laborer and I think he's just looking at a way to make money besides from working"
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Nov 5, 2016 14:22
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Zero One posted:Sharing my cork pics You should sell those on Amazon!!!
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froglet posted:Holy poo poo MLM's are predating on the extra young these days. A high-school friend of my brothers tried to recruit him for ACN. We start in elementary school here. Red Wheel foods or something. It's not strictly a pyramid scheme but it is super shady; recruit children('s parents) to sell lovely frozen food out of a catalogue and claim that proceeds go toward the school (hint: they do not). The kids who sell enough get a prize! Teachers drink the koolaid and brow beat students into participating in this. You miss several hours of class for the assembly about this bullshit.
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Nov 5, 2016 16:44
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Yeah we did that in elementary school too, though it was some other group. Some proceeds go to the school because otherwise the school wouldn't give a gently caress, but it's like 1% or something ridiculous like that
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Nov 5, 2016 16:49
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Whenever I get hit up by my niece for whatever she is selling this time (girlscouts, band, etc.) I just write her a check directly. gently caress buying some over priced junk food that I don't even want so that she gets 5% of the sales towards whatever activity.
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My kid's school in California said "we're not doing magazine/chocolate/whatever bullshit, just write a cheque for $NNNN or whatever you can afford". It was pretty great.
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Yea, those things are miserable. It's terrible when you have an office full of parents because everyone is stuck trying to hock overpriced trash food to each other. My daughter's preschool used to do it with cookies/cakes and fortunately all the parents told them it sucked and they switched to just asking for money for specific things directly and an online thing where you can buy giftcards and a percentage goes to the school - so we can buy giftcards for somewhere we would shop anyway (like amazon or target, etc.) and they get a tiny cut, which is much better than ending up with a freezer full of cookie dough. Unfortunately my son's school still does these things, although they are apparently trying to sell us kitchenware now? Sorry guys, I don't need to buy new pots and pans every semester, so this isn't going to work.
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Ashcans posted:Yea, those things are miserable. It's terrible when you have an office full of parents because everyone is stuck trying to hock overpriced trash food to each other. My daughter's preschool used to do it with cookies/cakes and fortunately all the parents told them it sucked and they switched to just asking for money for specific things directly and an online thing where you can buy giftcards and a percentage goes to the school - so we can buy giftcards for somewhere we would shop anyway (like amazon or target, etc.) and they get a tiny cut, which is much better than ending up with a freezer full of cookie dough. It gets ridiculous when you live in a neighborhood with dozens of kids all needing to sell X number of cheesecakes for band. Like, there's no way you're going to hit more than 2 or 3 houses before you start overlapping. My kid's softball league has an option to skip fund raising and just give the park $30. My time and self respect are worth right about $30.
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We have one guy in the office who brings in Girl Scout cookies. They're pretty popular, so it works out pretty well. Other people sell chocolate and poo poo, they just set up a basket and an envelope in the kitchen and trust the honour system. It seems to work.
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Krispy Kareem posted:It gets ridiculous when you live in a neighborhood with dozens of kids all needing to sell X number of cheesecakes for band. Like, there's no way you're going to hit more than 2 or 3 houses before you start overlapping. Local boyscout troop was selling popcorn, of which I need negative zero. Offered the parent the  for popcorn in the form of a direct check and two days later they were ready willing and able to accept my donation. Feels good man etc.
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The only one I actually liked was this coupon book thing with a lot of local business coupons in it and you'd buy it for $30 and it was actually worth it just because it had like $50 in grocery store coupons that you'd actually use. Like not individual product coupons, just stuff like "$10 off when you spend $50 at Publix"
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"For a mere $30, you get the once in a lifetime opportunity to spend even more money at local businesses!"
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H110Hawk posted:Local boyscout troop was selling popcorn, of which I need negative zero. Offered the parent the Dude that popcorn is delicious though.
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Volmarias posted:"For a mere $30, you get the once in a lifetime opportunity to spend even more money at local businesses!" Everyone got them for the grocery store coupons because you go to the grocery store anyway and most families already spend $50+ for groceries so it's not like you have to change your purchasing habits and wind up spending more money or anything idk
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H110Hawk posted:Local boyscout troop was selling popcorn, of which I need negative zero. Offered the parent the Mathematically there is no negative zero. WTF is a "direct check"? My initial take on this whole transaction is that you're full of crap.
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gnarlyhotep posted:Mathematically there is no negative zero. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed_zero
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Even outside of computer contexts you can approach something like a zero limit from either direction effectively creating two values that converge at zero but are not equal
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gnarlyhotep posted:Mathematically there is no negative zero. WTF is a "direct check"? My initial take on this whole transaction is that you're full of crap. Who let the math nerd in here? This is an internet forum, buddy. We don't take kindly to your kind in these parts.
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Also where I'm from "direct check" is actually a phrase people use when they mean "make the check out in your name" as opposed to the company's name or the school's name or whatever though idk if that's what the poster meant
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I've been seeing signs around town for a high school doing a mattress sale fundraiser. How the hell often do people replace mattresses that there's a sustainable market for that??
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Hargrimm posted:I've been seeing signs around town for a high school doing a mattress sale fundraiser. How the hell often do people replace mattresses that there's a sustainable market for that?? huge margins in matresses
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