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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Woof. I helped pay for the food at a wedding that had the reception at a nice hotel in Georgetown, Washington D.C. and it was around $2,000 for around 50 people. Did that include the venue though? edit: It's been a while since we've talked about weddings! I'm having a great day! Opens up old wedding budget spreadsheet.
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Residency Evil posted:Did that include the venue though? I don't remember, but based on the shocked reactions from people in this thread, I am going to guess that it did not.
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Oh are we doing wedding chat? Our officiant was a cousin of mine (a raccoon), and the woodland creatures we had as ushers actually collected seeds and nuts for us to eat. We came out way ahead, would recommend.
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Oct 14, 2021 22:15
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My favorite wedding I've been in recently was a friend who had the entire event in the local rec center, catered the rehearsal dinner with Little Caesar's Hot and Readies and had cheap beer on tap. That was someone who understood the value of a dollar.
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Oct 14, 2021 22:33
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Bird in a Blender posted:Absolutely no way you're paying only $41/plate at a wedding venue. I'm not sure you could got that cheap even 20 years ago. $125/plate doesn't seem outrageous depending on the venue. That is usually the entire cost, so that's paying for the food, service, venue, etc. Yeah that's right - this was in Australia so labour costs are a big part of it. So $100 for food/venue/service, and $40-50 for a per-person drink package, depending on what spirits you needed. At least the drunken uncles from both families cleaned out all the whiskey from the venue's storeroom and their sister venue next door, despite us warning them to stock extra. GWM, BWL(liver)?
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BonerGhost posted:Oh are we doing wedding chat? Our officiant was a cousin of mine (a raccoon), and the woodland creatures we had as ushers actually collected seeds and nuts for us to eat. We came out way ahead, would recommend. We found our officiant on Wedding Wire, where he had top reviews. He was part of the "Old Catholic Church," which is some sort of offshoot from the Catholic Church which 1) allows gays and 2) lets you get married outside, which my wife wanted. We figured we could fool my Real Catholic(TM) parents since he'd be saying a mass that was pretty much identical to a Catholic wedding, except it was outside. A few weeks before our wedding, he invited us to his house, where we met his girlfriend/fiancee, a nurse that was 20-30 years younger than him. Kind of odd, but ok. A week before our wedding I googled him and found out that he spent time in federal prison for being part of his uncle's funeral home embezzlement scam, was later in the Navy, and then later got kicked out of the Catholic church/his teaching job at a local university for being gay. Wedding was great! He did an awesome job and my parents loved him.
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Medullah posted:My favorite wedding I've been in recently was a friend who had the entire event in the local rec center, catered the rehearsal dinner with Little Caesar's Hot and Readies and had cheap beer on tap. That was someone who understood the value of a dollar. I catered my wedding with bags of goop we bough from a nice fazollis lady. Bad Wedding Macaroni
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Residency Evil posted:A week before our wedding I googled him and found out that he spent time in federal prison for being part of his uncle's funeral home embezzlement scam, was later in the Navy, and then later got kicked out of the Catholic church/his teaching job at a local university for being gay. I'm not sure if his background makes him a better or worse choice for filling your parents: on the one hand, he clearly has experience lying to old people; on the other hand, he got caught doing it.
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Oct 14, 2021 23:36
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If you're gonna get married somewhere do it in China. Absolute best expectations of guest vs dollar cost ratio of anywhere I've ever been. Only downside really is you will absolutely have a minimum guest count of like 250+
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its not the nation its the banquet halls they just have normal rear end kitchens sized for 250 peeps, 300 peeps so they can just whack out the wedding like its a normal day at a restaurant instead of cateringy things. very little customization means economies of scale. you get the same dealio in certain banquet halls in america and east asian countries outside of china too
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Oct 15, 2021 01:46
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Wedding at the malls food court, got it.
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So, Twitter is a crap way to take in the entirety of a story, apologies for the Twitter links. But, from what I gather, this guy is going for the BWM and BWL hall of fame. Amazon apparently offers financing offers to pay for purchases (apply for this Credit Card and get $x/month payments for some number of months on your purchase). OK, thats not too uncommon these days. Genius decides he should use this ability to buy over five million dollars of Gold: https://twitter.com/w_budgick/status/1443078631518089216 Amazon smartly decides to try and, you know, have this guy prove his identity. He refuses (I assume this is a "muh freedoms" angle). They dont ship him any gold. Enraged, he decides to threaten to murder some Amazon employees on social media. I didnt dig far enough to find this, but thats OK, because Mr. Genius decides to post a scanned copy of a court order laying out these crimes. A judge apparently found these threats credible enough to have his weapons taken away: https://twitter.com/w_budgick/status/1448723316479561731 Among other saucy replies, an actual lawyer chimes in with some good advice (the video is a good one): https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/1448734791134851084
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Was the plan to defraud Amazon and never pay the credit card bills or something
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brugroffil posted:Was the plan to defraud Amazon and never pay the credit card bills or something I have to think it was either that, or just a bold play that somehow gold was about to wildly increase in price, making the credit payments easy. Market price actually looks about the same price today as when he tried to buy in July 2020, and he was paying $2080/oz in the screenshot - well over spot price (about $1800/oz at the time). I think coins usually usually cost over spot price to buy, but you dont get the same advantage when selling (dealers will pay spot minus a commission for coins). This means he would've had to sell at a loss to pay any credit card payments over the last year. Given this guys seemingly unhinged ways, it seems more likely that he planned to smuggle it all to south america in a rather uncomfortable place, and ghost the bank. drk fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Oct 15, 2021 |
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Oct 15, 2021 02:32
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Heffer posted:Wedding at the malls food court, got it. it's still top-grade banquet prix fixe food wedding as conspicuous consumption, which must have rigorous and huge diseconomies of scale, and wedding as, like, wedding
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Oct 15, 2021 02:37
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Looks like they caught this fraudster Before his Prime
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Wait how does installment purchases work in the US? Don't you need to have enough credit card limit to cover the full amount of the purchases beforehand? GoGoGadgetChris posted:Looks like they caught this fraudster jesus christ
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Space Kablooey posted:Wait how does installment purchases work in the US? Don't you need to have enough credit card limit to cover the full amount of the purchases beforehand? There's been a rise of installment plan options with no/limited credit check. They're usually fairly short term in that they're only 4-6 months with set amounts instead of a standard credit card open ended payment.
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It looks like even if amazon shipped him all his gold, he'd just have been in less debt. Looks like he bought for $2080/oz and gold peaked at $2037, but he seems to think because the spot price of gold increased 12%, the price of his assorted gold coins must have increased the same, even though he bought them for more than the spot price. He also has some weird bullshit sounding story about how he went to some amazon office with all the documents to prove his identity and they just didn't take it but it was "Confirmed by amazon head of security" that he was there on CCTV. I wanna find it again because he kept posting some address, but I bet it was like an random fulfillment center and not an acceptable way to verify identity.(Edit: the location he went to was a random Amazon warehouse near his house from what I can tell) So I'm a bit confused, did they not ship him the gold, but still charged him 5.3 million? That does seem like something that should be possible to rectify, either by giving him the gold(in which case he's still deep in the hole, but less deep), or forgiving him the debt since he didn't get the gold. But the way to solve that problem isn't threatening to murder people. Edit: I just realized that on top of that, he'd be incurring interest over 300k a year from this stupid scheme. wilderthanmild fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Oct 15, 2021 |
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drk posted:Among other saucy replies, an actual lawyer chimes in with some good advice (the video is a good one): Everyone needs to watch this video and internalize the lessons it offers.
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ultrafilter posted:Everyone needs to watch this video and internalize the lessons it offers.
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I would manhandle an armload of plague rats before I willingly spent time with a cop Rats are awesome
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ultrafilter posted:Everyone needs to watch this video and internalize the lessons it offers.
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To be fair it's also pretty BWM for Amazon to just give this random goldbugger weirdo 5 million dollars of unsecured consumer credit.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Absolutely no way you're paying only $41/plate at a wedding venue. I'm not sure you could got that cheap even 20 years ago. $125/plate doesn't seem outrageous depending on the venue. That is usually the entire cost, so that's paying for the food, service, venue, etc. I mean I dunno 125+25 seems high. but not outrageous. at the risk of a sixer my food drink total was 95ish dollars.
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Speaking of BWM and Amazon...quote:So, this was a year ago now and since I've started working up in Walmart and I am much better off. However, this is a warning against Amazon. People in the comments are clearly confused as to what made the OP decide to break his lease and move 2500 miles away for an Amazon Warehouse job. quote:I am trying to wrap my head around this. OP responds quote:My rent to live in Disney world was 1650. My rent with the in laws... they wouldn't take money, I paid them in appliances because that's all they would accept. Still cheaper than high rents. I think this sums it up best quote:Just a never ending string of poor decisions in this thread
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quote:Is my potential Sugar Daddy trying to scam me by using a bitcoin atm? quote:If someone does want to legit pay you in Bitcoin though, take that poo poo 100% it will be worth a fortune in 10 years (my opinion). quote:We've got an infestation of incels apparently. Being a beginners sub we get all types in here. quote:The people talking poo poo aren't even knowledgeable, and certainly not better. I like to think we're all equal, but when people can't respect their fellow human I can't help but think they're a little.. less. quote:It is definitely more likely to go up than down. That is the nature of bitcoin. And while we can't know, it is absolutely possible to make an educated guess. quote:No matter what happens you will come out ahead (possibly many times over) if you use this as your opportunity to get into bitcoin. quote:On average, bitcoin will gain more than lose. It has an infinite potential for growth and can only have a positive growth over the longterm. You can't guarantee short term results, but longterm it is guaranteed. Anyone with economics training who doesn't have a FUDD reason or bribe from fiat agencies will know this. quote:Scam. Hope you got some bitcoin for yourself anyway! It is projected to double in price from here by end of year. quote:Bitcoin is worth $50k USD per coin so maybe he has some aside and not cash many people want BTC as it will grow as over years like it has. I would accept it but keep it SAFE! Store seed phrase and passwords to wallets offline only! quote:Wow this is a really low thing for him to do. I hope you have or can find someone else to be a sugar daddy. quote:It is not necessarily a scam. Some people are into the idea of supporting another... that is the fetish or attraction there. I have a friend who is into this (paying women). On the other hand, there are tons of international scammers who message women randomly with this specific scam above and explicitly offering to be a sugar daddy unsolicited, so I doubt OP is a scammer (based on the information provided).
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on the "i ordered from walmart and it arived in amazon packaging": that's actually third party sellers. i know this because i ordered something (i think it was juice) from amazon once and it wasn't arriving with the normal amazon shipping, and then arrived a few days later in a walmart.com box addressed to me. a few puzzled minutes later wondering when i had ordered from walmart, i checked both websites and it appears someone was just running a bot that lists things on amazon at a markup from walmart and buys/ships it from walmart, for stuff amazon doesn't have in stock (and now, i know to check both sites!) i assume someone is running the reverse
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Just had to lol at this mini entry:quote:Why is the afganistan crisis not affecting crypto prices? quote:Because nobody in afghanistan owns crypto.
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evilweasel posted:on the "i ordered from walmart and it arived in amazon packaging": that's actually third party sellers. i know this because i ordered something (i think it was juice) from amazon once and it wasn't arriving with the normal amazon shipping, and then arrived a few days later in a walmart.com box addressed to me. Sometimes it is arbitrage (resell at a higher price for a profit), sometimes it is credit card fraud/money laundering (use the stolen card/dirty money to buy the thing from site A, sell back on site B breakeven or for a small loss/profit to get clean recorded money back).
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evilweasel posted:on the "i ordered from walmart and it arived in amazon packaging": that's actually third party sellers. i know this because i ordered something (i think it was juice) from amazon once and it wasn't arriving with the normal amazon shipping, and then arrived a few days later in a walmart.com box addressed to me. People are doing the reverse, and you've probably seen it happen! Imagine two people Now imagine that the store they source from runs out of the widget. You'd think that this would mean that the resellers take down their listing, right? Not always! Alice should notice that she can't purchase the widget anymore, but Bob still has his listing up - it just means that Alice has to raise her prices a little bit. But now Bob sees that the price on Amazon has gone up, which means that if somebody buys the widget from Bob, he'll have to buy a more expensive widget from Alice and he'll lose money. So Bob now raises his prices to cover the costs, and now Alice has to notice that the cost of purchasing a widget from Walmart has increased - she has to raise her prices now, or she's losing money on every widget sale and she's probably not going to make it up in volume. We can cut out a bunch of obvious steps here, but if you've ever seen something trivial being offered for tens of thousands of dollars on Amazon, this is one of the reasons that can happen.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The Mayor of Miami is trying to move on to step two of his "Crypto City" project. The constitution bans the states from making non-gold or silver currency right? Does this apply to 1) crypto bullshit 2) cities?
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:On average, bitcoin will gain more than lose. It has an infinite potential for growth and can only have a positive growth over the longterm. This sounds a lot like Pascal's wager: Blaise Pascal, 17th century posted:Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing
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Calumanjaro posted:The constitution bans the states from making non-gold or silver currency right? Does this apply to 1) crypto bullshit 2) cities? The US Constitution Article 1 Section 10 posted:No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. So yes, the constitution does explicitly ban a state making anything but gold or silver legal tender for debts. I assume that would apply to cities within the state. There is however if I'm reading this analysis of the section right some loopholes where you could classify crypto in such a way as to get around this. It's ultimately still a holding of dollars and therefore gold.
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From the article it sounded like the city would be essentially buying crypto for their workers so technically they are still getting paid in USD just the city is acting as a middle man in buying it. As for paying the city taxes in Bitcoin, I don't know. I've lived in Orlando all my life and the only taxes are property and sales taxes, but maybe Miami actually collects some sort of income tax, I have no idea. The State doesn't though so I think him saying "pay taxes with Bitcoin" is just a talking point.
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drk posted:I have to think it was either that, or just a bold play that somehow gold was about to wildly increase in price, making the credit payments easy. Reading too many goldbug subreddits about imminent USD hyperinflation drk posted:Given this guys seemingly unhinged ways, it seems more likely that he planned to smuggle it all to south america in a rather uncomfortable place, and ghost the bank. Like the back of a Volkswagen?
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Pham Nuwen posted:Reading too many goldbug subreddits about imminent USD hyperinflation My favorite part is that he thinks he could have made 750k and that Amazon robbed him of this. That 750k is almost a 14% or return on his 5.4 million in coins he tried to purchase. Which is what the spot price of gold went up between the day he tried to buy this, and the peak shortly later. He clearly thinks he would have sold his coins for an increase of 14% or so, at $2371! (The spot price peaked at $2071) I'm still confused how he never received anything from them though and is still on the hook for the charge, or did he eventually get it, sell at an enormous loss? It's so hard to track from his twitter, because he posts like he has a mental disorder, which makes sense because his brain was already a bit melty to come up with this plan, but now it's in total meltdown after trying to chase his entirely fictional profit and probably ruining himself forever financially.
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NFT peeps are mad at Busta Rhymes. https://twitter.com/BustaRhymes/status/1448979255807946755 https://twitter.com/nonfungibledev/status/1448988248446062601 https://twitter.com/NFTeaExpert/status/1449000089201037317 https://twitter.com/mazaambi/status/1448988131613495309 https://twitter.com/gdnn1975/status/1448999241016233991 https://twitter.com/crypto_bitlord7/status/1448989546771714060 https://twitter.com/karbon78/status/1448980161009958925
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I don't get the weird fascination with people bragging about being ripped of by "The Salt Bae" They ordered wine off the menu that had no price listed and got charged ~$13,000 for it. https://twitter.com/MENnewsdesk/status/1448992171336605697 This is what a ~$51,000 meal looks like BTW:   The steak costs ~$1,300. The edible gold flake retails for about $6 and the steak retails for ~$89.
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