|
For years now, paypal mails me every month telling me the overview of recent transactions is ready for me. Seems pretty shady because I get these even when I haven't used paypal in months. As far as I can tell, they're legitimate e-mails from paypal, but there's no way to turn them off in the settings screen. I'm confused what their purpose even is. Just to remind me I have an account with them?
|
# ? Mar 8, 2018 21:51 |
|
|
# ? Jun 1, 2024 06:25 |
|
Probably, I opened up a new account with them recently and my god they don’t stop emailing.
|
# ? Mar 8, 2018 22:17 |
|
Gasoline is also a good fraud target because you've got probably a 6 or 7 hundred mile radius before it looks suspicious
|
# ? Mar 8, 2018 22:31 |
|
Stick Insect posted:For years now, paypal mails me every month telling me the overview of recent transactions is ready for me. Seems pretty shady because I get these even when I haven't used paypal in months. I get emails from paypal every month as well. I really should just delete the account.
|
# ? Mar 8, 2018 22:38 |
|
If you're in Canada you can report unwanted communications under a national spam act. I don't have a paypal account but still get mailings every once in a while despite unsubscribing to each one and forward that to the national site that deals with it. I like to think they get dinged the max 50k per violation, gently caress paypal
|
# ? Mar 9, 2018 01:40 |
|
They're probably obligated to send a monthly reminder if you have any money in the online account.
|
# ? Mar 9, 2018 05:28 |
|
With Paypal (and I get a lot of periodic emails from them too), I suspect the issue is there's a lot of people like me who really never use it but got an account that one time to make that one purchase that didn't take credit cards or other payment. So yeah, the main purpose is likely to remind you that you have an account, and wouldn't you like to use it?
|
# ? Mar 9, 2018 05:57 |
|
I think they're legally obligated to. Similar to banks sending monthly statements.
|
# ? Mar 9, 2018 14:28 |
|
Yeah, I get them too and it's like the one guy said where I used it once but get updates every month. I think it's like a monthly statement type of thing
|
# ? Mar 9, 2018 18:48 |
|
I was at the grocery store yesterday putting my groceries in my car when a guy came up to me. He asked me what size my shoes were, I told him and he asked me if I wanted to sell them for like $20 because he knew somebody that could use them. I said no obviously. They were dress shoes not Jordan's or anything like that. Is this a scam or just a crazy guy? Even if I wanted to sell them, how does he expect me to get home with no shoes?
|
# ? Mar 10, 2018 16:11 |
|
If you're in the market to sell your shoes to a stranger in a parking lot for twenty dollars, you're probably stupid or desperate enough to go along with WHATEVER phase two is.
|
# ? Mar 10, 2018 21:09 |
|
Michael Corleone posted:I was at the grocery store yesterday putting my groceries in my car when a guy came up to me. He asked me what size my shoes were, I told him and he asked me if I wanted to sell them for like $20 because he knew somebody that could use them. I said no obviously. They were dress shoes not Jordan's or anything like that. Is this a scam or just a crazy guy? Even if I wanted to sell them, how does he expect me to get home with no shoes? If he then stole something and ran off how would you chase him without shoes?
|
# ? Mar 10, 2018 21:34 |
|
Not quite a scam in the traditional sense, but some thread here (I forget which) posted this article about Kirby vacuum salesmen. http://www.citypages.com/news/minnesotans-tortured-by-the-vacuum-salesmen-who-just-wont-leave/475781863 The guy who sold a vacuum to a woman for $130 while neglecting to mention it was the down payment on a $2300 vacuum seems pretty scammy. Or at least scummy.
|
# ? Mar 10, 2018 22:01 |
|
I'm pretty sure that as opposed to MLM scams that SHOULD be legally considered fraud, that IS legally considered fraud.
|
# ? Mar 10, 2018 23:24 |
|
JacquelineDempsey posted:Not quite a scam in the traditional sense, but some thread here (I forget which) posted this article about Kirby vacuum salesmen. I think this is probably the same poo poo that Kirby has been doing for decades, it just doesn't fly in this day and age.
|
# ? Mar 11, 2018 02:09 |
|
article posted:“Because we do in-home demonstrations of Kirby products as part of our work, you can imagine that this sometimes is misunderstood as door-to-door sales are not as common as they once were… Thanatosian posted:I think this is probably the same poo poo that Kirby has been doing for decades, it just doesn't fly in this day and age.
|
# ? Mar 11, 2018 02:14 |
|
Michael Corleone posted:I was at the grocery store yesterday putting my groceries in my car when a guy came up to me. He asked me what size my shoes were, I told him and he asked me if I wanted to sell them for like $20 because he knew somebody that could use them. I said no obviously. They were dress shoes not Jordan's or anything like that. Is this a scam or just a crazy guy? Even if I wanted to sell them, how does he expect me to get home with no shoes? Are you female? Sounds like a foot fetish dude who wanted take them home smell them or something.
|
# ? Mar 11, 2018 02:38 |
|
lol if you own a vac that takes consumable bags in 2018 much less paid a used car for one
|
# ? Mar 11, 2018 03:12 |
|
shame on an IGA posted:lol if you own a vac that takes consumable bags in 2018 much less paid a used car for one We have central vac. Cost about a grand for the unit and hoses. Plumbing came with the house.
|
# ? Mar 11, 2018 03:39 |
|
BiggerBoat posted:Are you female? Sounds like a foot fetish dude who wanted take them home smell them or something. By no means does Michael Corleone being male rule this out
|
# ? Mar 11, 2018 04:04 |
|
Michael Corleone posted:I was at the grocery store yesterday putting my groceries in my car when a guy came up to me. He asked me what size my shoes were, I told him and he asked me if I wanted to sell them for like $20 because he knew somebody that could use them. I said no obviously. They were dress shoes not Jordan's or anything like that. Is this a scam or just a crazy guy? Even if I wanted to sell them, how does he expect me to get home with no shoes? That screams "Fetish Guy" to me. There was a dude who was known in my area when I was in HS who would ask to buy teen girl shoes all the time. I knew of at least four friends who were approached separately by the guy. The police said nothing could be done because there was nothing illegal, just creepy as gently caress.
|
# ? Mar 11, 2018 04:27 |
|
Michael Corleone posted:I was at the grocery store yesterday putting my groceries in my car when a guy came up to me. He asked me what size my shoes were, I told him and he asked me if I wanted to sell them for like $20 because he knew somebody that could use them. I said no obviously. They were dress shoes not Jordan's or anything like that. Is this a scam or just a crazy guy? Even if I wanted to sell them, how does he expect me to get home with no shoes? This happened to me in a CVS one time. I declined because I didn’t want to walk around barefoot, but didn’t really think about it much at the time. I didn’t figure out why he really wanted them until mid-afternoon the next day.
|
# ? Mar 11, 2018 07:19 |
|
Depressio111117 posted:I didn’t figure out why he really wanted them until mid-afternoon the next day. Well? Clue those of us who have a had a few beers in on it. Why did he really want them?
|
# ? Mar 11, 2018 07:54 |
|
To jack off in or on.
|
# ? Mar 11, 2018 12:49 |
|
Wait til that perv figures out they can buy shoes at the thrift store.
|
# ? Mar 11, 2018 15:35 |
|
FrozenVent posted:To jack off in or on. This is the reason.
|
# ? Mar 11, 2018 21:21 |
|
An appropriate discussion for page sixty-nine
|
# ? Mar 11, 2018 21:33 |
|
I really wish I could find a Craigslist post compilation where a shoe fetish dude kept asking for pictures of the seller wearing the high heels, the wife got fed up and had her husband wear them and sent pictures of his big hairy feet that didn't fit at all into them ...at least I think that's how it went some details might be off bit the general idea was still that
|
# ? Mar 13, 2018 09:54 |
|
Depressio111117 posted:This is the reason. I thought the reason was you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV4DiAyExN0
|
# ? Mar 13, 2018 22:58 |
|
McPhock posted:I thought the reason was you? Oh good, I was wondering what song from middle school I was going to get stuck in my head this week
|
# ? Mar 14, 2018 02:50 |
|
Thanks for making me break my "no drinking during the week" rule so that I can get that out of my head
|
# ? Mar 14, 2018 04:32 |
|
band's name is 'hoobastank', there might be some backstory not included in the song
|
# ? Mar 14, 2018 06:23 |
|
Depressio111117 posted:Oh good, I was wondering what song from middle school I was going to get stuck in my head this week The radio stations played that song like twice an hour for four straight months in 2004 or whatever it was. It's not really a terrible song, pretty bland and boring really, but hearing it 15 times a day at work filled me with a raging desire to murder everyone who had anything to do with its production with a barbecue fork that still lingers to this day as deep loathing. Well that's my story.
|
# ? Mar 14, 2018 13:11 |
|
Eric the Mauve posted:The radio stations played that song like twice an hour for four straight months in 2004 or whatever it was. It's not really a terrible song, pretty bland and boring really, but hearing it 15 times a day at work filled me with a raging desire to murder everyone who had anything to do with its production with a barbecue fork that still lingers to this day as deep loathing. 100% this. I don't understand how it happened because that wasn't even a #1 single at any point but there was a window in 2004 where that bland rear end song was more inescapable than Uptown Funk or Hotline Bling or Thriller
|
# ? Mar 14, 2018 13:24 |
|
McPhock posted:I thought the reason was you? God drat, I'm so glad I had WXRT and an aux port when this song came out. If I've ever heard this song before it never registered, thankfully. What a boring, boring song. It's just so bland and workmanlike as it checks all the boxes of early 2000s pop song.
|
# ? Mar 14, 2018 13:30 |
|
shame on an IGA posted:100% this. I don't understand how it happened because that wasn't even a #1 single at any point but there was a window in 2004 where that bland rear end song was more inescapable than Uptown Funk or Hotline Bling or Thriller I'm going to guess that a record company had the rights to all/almost all the money from radio play. Payola isn't legal now but that doesn't stop record companies from paying somebody to promote music to the stations; really they just added a step. This is part of the reason that radio has been increasingly the same few dozen songs over and over and over and over; the people that wrote them are getting gently caress all from it but the executives get it. The music industry is really a huge scam top to bottom. The songs that get the most play are either inescapably popular or pay the record company before the musician. It's never about what song is best; it's about what makes the most money for the company owners. Incidentally the "I heard this 500 times a day for years" is why I absolutely loathe all Christmas music. It started in like early October and didn't quit until early January. The same ten songs that were all a minute long. Over. And. loving. Over. All day. The worst thing was when random pop stars tried to make newer, cooler versions of them and it's like...it's loving Jingle Bells. You can't do much creative with Jingle Bells. Extending it to six minutes just makes it exponentially more annoying.
|
# ? Mar 14, 2018 22:55 |
|
I used to work at Sears, and we had a 20 track CD for the in-store Muzak. About every 45 minutes, Hey There Delilah would play. Over. And Over. And Over. And Over. I now hate this song with the fiery passion of a thousand burning suns.
|
# ? Mar 14, 2018 23:12 |
|
When I become undisputed ruler of the world, owning or playing "Absolute Christmas" or any of the songs on it will be a capital offense.
|
# ? Mar 14, 2018 23:21 |
|
ToxicSlurpee posted:Incidentally the "I heard this 500 times a day for years" is why I absolutely loathe all Christmas music. It started in like early October and didn't quit until early January. The same ten songs that were all a minute long. Over. And. loving. Over. All day. The worst thing was when random pop stars tried to make newer, cooler versions of them and it's like...it's loving Jingle Bells. You can't do much creative with Jingle Bells. Extending it to six minutes just makes it exponentially more annoying. https://xkcd.com/988/ "An 'American Tradition' is anything that happened to a Baby Boomer twice" is maybe one of the truest things ever written.
|
# ? Mar 14, 2018 23:24 |
|
|
# ? Jun 1, 2024 06:25 |
|
The grocery store I was at yesterday has an amazing 80s muzak mix including "Let's Get Physical" A lot of franchises here don't have a corporate mix so the staff just choose their own satellite station or cds, it is amazing to have uncensored NIN or Method Man during lunch.
|
# ? Mar 14, 2018 23:43 |