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they seem to have revivified it https://www.bearstearnscompanies.com/our-firm/about-us
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bob dobbs is dead posted:they seem to have revivified it That is hilarious. I dunno why they wouldn't just change the name. They literally collapsed due to poor risk management right?
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Pekinduck posted:I wonder how much it costs to buy the rights to the name of a defunct company. I want to legally be the CEO of Lehman Bros. That might be tough, since I think Barclays owns most of that. They still use the LEHM MPID, at least: https://www.interactivebrokers.co.uk/en/index.php?f=676 quote:LEHM Barclays Capital Inc./Le
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Aug 21, 2021 12:07
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Pekinduck posted:I wonder how much it costs to buy the rights to the name of a defunct company. I want to legally be the CEO of Lehman Bros. I remember reading somewhere that Perry Ellis bought the name and rights to defunct dead mall staple Anchor Blue for 500K (I really loved their jeans, it came up while searching online for any remaining new pairs). Given that a dead mall retailer that sold denim and skater-ish clothing in the 90's and 2000's cost that much, I'm betting you need CEO'ish wealth already.
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Aug 21, 2021 15:04
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So I guess with the end of OnlyFans, Cumrocket will become the first crypto to have an actual, concrete use? Out of all crypto coins, this one wasn't the one I was expecting to be a success.
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Aug 21, 2021 19:36
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Mans posted:So I guess with the end of OnlyFans, Cumrocket will become the first crypto to have an actual, concrete use? I wish I could send this post back in time to myself and tell a younger version of me "this is a thing you will read, and you will completely understand" Worst. Timeline. Ever.
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I just had a funny experience. I dropped off a single pair of pants at the dry cleaners (stupid stain from eating). Total with tax came out to $6.80. I had no cash, and when I took out my credit card to pay (Visa), and said I had no cash, the guy waved me away and said to just bring more clothes next time. I have no idea what the margins on a dry cleaning business are like, but I imagine they have to be high. Usually we dry clean more stuff and our totals are higher, but aren't Visa processing fees something like 2% or so? What am I missing?
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Aug 21, 2021 21:50
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Residency Evil posted:I just had a funny experience. I dropped off a single pair of pants at the dry cleaners (stupid stain from eating). Total with tax came out to $6.80. I had no cash, and when I took out my credit card to pay (Visa), and said I had no cash, the guy waved me away and said to just bring more clothes next time. Visa processing fees are a flat fee plus a percentage. The larger the purchase, the smaller the fee (percentage-wise).
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Aug 21, 2021 22:01
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Thanatosian posted:Visa processing fees are a flat fee plus a percentage. The larger the purchase, the smaller the fee (percentage-wise). UnSmith posted:As a local lurking therapist, the first step towards successful couples counseling is both people have to want the relationship to work. Based on what little information I have about that woman's actions, I suspect she wanted a divorce for a long time, and this just finally gave her permission to seek it. I feel for the guy though. He comes across as pretty chill... OP posted:You're right. She did apologize. But, I'll give her a little bit of leway since it's her time of the month and she's been under a ton of pressure at work. quote:We havent had a vacation since Covid. And likely wont take one anytime soon since the kids aren't vacced and she won't get the vaccine.
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Aug 21, 2021 22:27
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Thanatosian posted:Visa processing fees are a flat fee plus a percentage. The larger the purchase, the smaller the fee (percentage-wise). Haifisch posted:This is why some places try to set a minimum purchase amount before you can use a credit card. AFAIK every card processor agreement says you can't do this, but who's gonna snitch on them? But the fees can't be more than the marginal cost of dry cleaning a pair of pants?
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Aug 21, 2021 22:32
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Residency Evil posted:But the fees can't be more than the marginal cost of dry cleaning a pair of pants? Maybe he clocked you as a potential excellent customer and did this as a loss leader.
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Tyro posted:Maybe he clocked you as a potential excellent customer and did this as a loss leader. This dude can’t eat without dumping ketchup on his pants he’s a goldmine!
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Aug 21, 2021 23:25
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Residency Evil posted:But the fees can't be more than the marginal cost of dry cleaning a pair of pants? No, but he could have negative EV from supporting credit card transactions across his entire business. Who knows, maybe there is an element of tax evasion in the EV calculation.
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Aug 21, 2021 23:30
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bob dobbs is dead posted:they seem to have revivified it Missing an opportunity to come back as "Stern Bears" imho
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Aug 22, 2021 01:03
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I guess the Enron revitalization is just around the corner as well?
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Aug 22, 2021 01:35
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Hutzpah posted:I guess the Enron revitalization is just around the corner as well? Maybe they can call my local power plant that wants to be used to mine Bitcoin or the one further down the line that is currently cooking Seneca lake to mine Bitcoin Enron plants
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Aug 22, 2021 01:55
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Mantle posted:No, but he could have negative EV from supporting credit card transactions across his entire business. Who knows, maybe there is an element of tax evasion in the EV calculation. Yeah I was hoping someone here could comment on the tax evasion aspects, and whether it was BWM or not.
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Aug 22, 2021 02:40
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blackmet posted:I remember reading somewhere that Perry Ellis bought the name and rights to defunct dead mall staple Anchor Blue for 500K (I really loved their jeans, it came up while searching online for any remaining new pairs). darn Verus posted:That might be tough, since I think Barclays owns most of that. They still use the LEHM MPID, at least: https://www.interactivebrokers.co.uk/en/index.php?f=676 I love corporate archeological remains like this. I saw the address recently of one of Amazon's main datacenters, 1 Uunet Drive. Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
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Residency Evil posted:Yeah I was hoping someone here could comment on the tax evasion aspects, and whether it was BWM or not. I mean, it probably isn’t too hard to hide some of the cash transactions with some creative accounting. Dry cleaners are usually a good vehicle for money laundering so I assume there is some flexibility there in how much cash you are reporting.
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Aug 22, 2021 08:16
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Aug 22, 2021 11:47
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I wonder how much of RI’s money ever came back.
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Aug 22, 2021 12:08
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Residency Evil posted:But the fees can't be more than the marginal cost of dry cleaning a pair of pants? Well, running a card costs $2 and not running the card costs nothing so obviously… many small business owners are just irrationally angry at credit card fees.
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Depending on their processor they may have a flat fee for all transactions, a smaller flat fee and a percentage, or various fees and or various percentages based upon the specific card you are using. Rewards cards usually cost extra. They may also pay extra if they exceed a certain number of transactions.A lot of times they need to pick a fee schedule based upon their most common transaction range. And it may be that the price of laundering one shirt has a negative marginal profit for them once the card fees are figured in.
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Aug 23, 2021 00:23
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Residency Evil posted:But the fees can't be more than the marginal cost of dry cleaning a pair of pants? Subtract tax and card fees and he basically just bought your goodwill with a $2-$3 coupon. It's not like they're running a scam on visa or the IRS.
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Aug 23, 2021 00:36
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Its legal for places to have a 10$ credit card minimum now. That changed in 2008 with post crash legislation, I believe.
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Aug 23, 2021 00:45
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Heffer posted:Its legal for places to have a 10$ credit card minimum now. That changed in 2008 with post crash legislation, I believe. Yup, that was added in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. Can add a $10 minimum as long as it's applied to all cards accepted.
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Aug 23, 2021 01:59
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Aces High posted:Just a little over a decade ago I was on a camping/road trip with a friend and one of the places we camped there was a couple from Europe in the site next to ours. I believe they said they were from Switzerland but it's been 10 years so I don't recall exactly but it was a mandatory service country and I don't think any other mainland European nations have that. May get mentioned in the following two pages I haven't read yet, but Greece has conscription for men. Goes all the way 45 years old. I'm working to claim my citizenship and that's a consideration of why I'm delaying the final paperwork. Although I've heard of clauses that if you have three children (I do) you are exempt but best not to tempt the beast when on a summer long vacation over there.
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from r/relationships My (19F) boyfriend (24M) paid 500 dollars worth of bitcoin over a spam email about his masturbation quote:We've been together about a year, sometimes things have happened that make me wonder about his common sense. This is the most recent.
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Aug 23, 2021 06:03
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my mom downloaded some software poo poo some indian call center scammers told her to and then snapped out of it and they started yelling at her lol
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Aug 23, 2021 06:24
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I wonder what kind of porn he was whacking it to that made him so worried that people finding out made him do something as dumb as that.
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Nocheez posted:I wonder what kind of porn he was whacking it to that made him so worried that people finding out made him do something as dumb as that. 
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My brother-in-law told me a story of one of his employees, a package delivery guy who called out sick to work one day. A few weeks later the guy told him the whole story about how he was in a "slavic squat" while jerking off with his cell phone. He somehow got hacked and the hackers showed the video back to him and said they were going to send it to all of his contacts (shown as well) on Facebook and everywhere they could unless he paid them bitcoin. The dude was pretty religious and was worried about his family knowing he jerks off so he paid them. I honestly can't imagine what it would be like to have that happen.
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Aug 23, 2021 09:44
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I got an email stating an old password of mine and that they were gonna send video of me whacking it to porn and the names of all the websites I visited (without specifying which sites) to everyone on my contacts list. I ignored it and nothing happened. It does a good job of selecting for gullible people.
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Aug 23, 2021 09:55
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There is a program called covenanteyes which when you look at porn it emails everyone you know to say you've broken your marriage covenant by looking at porn which I think probably feeds a kink.
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Aug 23, 2021 10:17
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Aug 23, 2021 10:20
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:from r/relationships A coworker once got a similar email at work. He called my boss over to show him, and my boss said "Looks like your fate... is in your hands".
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therobit posted:I got an email stating an old password of mine and that they were gonna send video of me whacking it to porn and the names of all the websites I visited (without specifying which sites) to everyone on my contacts list. I ignored it and nothing happened. It does a good job of selecting for gullible people. Working in IT I used to see a lot of this... they usually ask for payment via bitcoin, so we just started spam filtering on bitcoin addresses. Zero complaints about sextortion spam on the work network since, and hopefully it helps prevent people get sucked into cryptocurrency newsletters and other nonsense. Worse is when they target people's personal accounts, but we're lucky that people trust IT enough to come to us for advice and we've prevented a number of people from being scammed. People are often horrified/amazed when we search for their personal email address on https://haveibeenpwned.com/ - pretty much everyone had at least one compromise (LinkedIn) but usually more. I've only heard of one person falling for the scam (panicked and paid them the same evening), and apparently it wasn't too in bad in that they only got a few hundred dollars out of it - the worst part for the guy was having explain himself to his wife. gently caress scammers.
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I can't remember what software this was, but a dude posted asking for support because whenever he was cut and pasting some alphanumeric string in to the program, it was getting mangled. Turns out he was hacked, and had malware that was replacing anything that looked like Bitcoin addresses on the clipboard with the hackers.
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There was a great one posted somewhere else recently where the spam mail was like "wow! You are like a machine gun of jacking off! This is incredible to see such self action, imagine the shock when everyone knows that you are jerking the banana 15 times non stop!" And if you got that I think you'd be like "heh, I am the machine gun of jacking off and I don't care who knows it! I've hidden in the shadows for far too long!"
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Somewhere there's a guy who really was hacked, but his spam filter blocked the blackmail email and all of his contacts have been too embarrassed to tell him they get weekly emails of him whacking off.
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