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StormDrain posted:
WAIT WHAT
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Zereth posted:four dollars to get gluten-free toast instead of gluten toast? Honestly feels in line with the rest of their pricing. I'm a little impressed at how much their menu is GF, the usual route is to yeet in the wheat.
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# ? Sep 20, 2022 15:49 |
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I want to order a Self-Righteous sandwich and a Holier-than-thou bowl of soup please.
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# ? Sep 20, 2022 18:30 |
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EdsTeioh posted:WAIT WHAT The company pays for it at least but yeah, they try to rope all their employees into going to Landmark seminars and acquiescing is all but required if you so much as want to sniff a manager job there.
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# ? Sep 20, 2022 18:36 |
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Also Lululemon.
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# ? Sep 20, 2022 19:03 |
EdsTeioh posted:WAIT WHAT Panda Express doesn't do Landmark, it does something called Alive Semiars. It uh, caused a bit of a ruckus recently. https://www.dailynews.com/2021/03/08/panda-express-workers-forced-to-strip-in-cult-like-team-building-seminar-lawsuit-alleges/ posted:Panda Express workers forced to strip in ‘cult-like’ team-building seminar, lawsuit alleges
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# ? Sep 20, 2022 23:39 |
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lol I looked the case up and it got thrown out because surprise surprise, one of the things she had to sign when hired was a binding arbitration agreement. I'm sure the Panda Express arbiters gave her a fair and unbiased shake over these claims.
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# ? Sep 21, 2022 00:20 |
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What the fuckkkkkkk ?
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Sydin posted:lol I looked the case up and it got thrown out because surprise surprise, one of the things she had to sign when hired was a binding arbitration agreement. I'm sure the Panda Express arbiters gave her a fair and unbiased shake over these claims. Jfc
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# ? Sep 21, 2022 01:28 |
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Kenning posted:Panda Express doesn't do Landmark, it does something called Alive Semiars. It uh, caused a bit of a ruckus recently. Oh man I forgot about that one. When I was googling earlier I did come across recent, like last year, reddit posts about being asked to do the Landmark Forum, so it could be both or in addition to or just by that one store or region. In the
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# ? Sep 21, 2022 03:45 |
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Kenning posted:Panda Express doesn't do Landmark, it does something called Alive Semiars. It uh, caused a bit of a ruckus recently. holy poo poo. My neighbor is an assman at a nearby PA. I'll have to warn him about this.
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# ? Sep 21, 2022 03:47 |
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It's too late.
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# ? Sep 21, 2022 03:48 |
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I fell for this scam about 2 month ago. You're welcome to laugh at me. I was googling and found a Ryobi air pump for about less than half price. My thought process was "Hey they accept Paypal, I can just dispute whenever I like. Even if it's a scam, I won't lose any money". I order using paypal as payment method. A few days later I notice however that the amount charged was now double. I immediately go to paypal to dispute for the original price. Paypal takes about a week and rules in my favor and changed the amount charged to the original agreed amount. Two weeks later however nothing is being shipped and emails just disappear into a black hole. I try to dispute with Paypal and I can't reopen the dispute because I already disputed the first time! It took 3 different representative after calling but they were finally able to credit me back all of the amount. It took some doing but after showing them that I have been a customer since 1999 and this is the first time I have ever filed a dispute. So don't be a dummy like me and fall for this scam.
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# ? Sep 21, 2022 19:27 |
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I've been getting some new suspicious text message lately - like once per month, maybe. It's always something like "Hey coach Dave do you think my son can start coming to the afternoon class?" from a non-local area code. The first time I responded "Sorry wrong number; check your area code" and then the person started texting me about how being a single mother is hard blah blah blah. It has happened a few times now since summer. I've just taken to ignoring them now, but is this some kind of "check to see if the number is active for future scams" scam? Or maybe more of a variation on the nigerian prince?
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# ? Sep 21, 2022 19:35 |
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I've been getting texts with no content other than embedded media that I refuse to download. I'm assuming a legitimate text would actually have something in it that says what the media is about, or would come from a number I recognize, or something.
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# ? Sep 21, 2022 19:52 |
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CommonShore posted:I've been getting some new suspicious text message lately - like once per month, maybe. It's always something like "Hey coach Dave do you think my son can start coming to the afternoon class?" from a non-local area code. The first time I responded "Sorry wrong number; check your area code" and then the person started texting me about how being a single mother is hard blah blah blah. It has happened a few times now since summer. I am pretty sure they're using a wrong number bit to fish for horny/lonely people to scam.
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ponzicar posted:I am pretty sure they're using a wrong number bit to fish for horny/lonely people to scam. Seems more like they're praying on your good nature to try to help fix a mistake, and once you respond they can hit you with a sob story knowing you're more likely to care. They aren't looking for lonely people, just overly good hearted and naive ones.
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# ? Sep 21, 2022 20:08 |
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It's both though, it's that and also confirming a live number for their spam lists.
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# ? Sep 21, 2022 20:12 |
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Eric the Mauve posted:It's both though, it's that and also confirming a live number for their spam lists. Well yes but that's the same as the rest of these scams. This is just similar to an advance fee fraud that preys on good intentions instead of greed.
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# ? Sep 21, 2022 20:16 |
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I got a text "Oprah knows how to burn belly fat". No link or anything. Doesn't seem very effective. Unless it's just marketing for Oprah.
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bamhand posted:I got a text "Oprah knows how to burn belly fat". No link or anything. Doesn't seem very effective. Unless it's just marketing for Oprah. Someone is trapped in her harvesting dungeon
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# ? Sep 21, 2022 20:31 |
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Volmarias posted:Honestly feels in line with the rest of their pricing. I'm a little impressed at how much their menu is GF, the usual route is to yeet in the wheat. Worked at a restaurant where one of the waiters was talking about how cool that place was *because* of that dumb poo poo. I was like, “you’re in New York, dude. People would flip you the bird and tell you that they’re grateful for you to shut the gently caress up, and take their loving order.” Didn’t realise they were part of that culty poo poo, but it tracks.
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# ? Sep 21, 2022 21:58 |
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CommonShore posted:I've been getting some new suspicious text message lately - like once per month, maybe. It's always something like "Hey coach Dave do you think my son can start coming to the afternoon class?" from a non-local area code. The first time I responded "Sorry wrong number; check your area code" and then the person started texting me about how being a single mother is hard blah blah blah. It has happened a few times now since summer. I've been getting weird ones like this too with ambiguous content like "we never received the documents" or something similar to along those lines.
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# ? Sep 22, 2022 00:08 |
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This was a new one to me: I needed a specific motor oil and couldn't find it locally, so I ordered via Amazon, which was actually through a third party that I didn't even look at before ordering: RAM WHOLESALE. It wasn't set to be delivered for a little over a week but the next day a woman pulled into the driveway with Walmart bags. Said it was my Amazon order, took a pic presumably to confirm delivery, and took off. It was the correct brand of motor oil, but it wasn't close to being the right stuff. Amazon didn't even list it as shipped so I contacted customer service. After the second contact CS agreed to process it as delivered and request a refund. When I finally got the label from the seller, the label itself wasn't legit but instead said to contact the seller for return instructions. After going back to Amazon a third (or fourth?) time and probably spending an hour all told getting this resolved, I got my refund and I've still got the incorrect order of oil, which sells for ~$50. Looking at this seller's Amazon page it's clear their scam is to send the wrong item and make it hard to get a refund. Are they banking on most people saying, "meh, close enough"? I guess Amazon has gotten pretty lax with their sellers but as a buyer if I feel like I'm being purposefully scammed I'm going to be persistent in getting that money back out of principle.
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# ? Sep 22, 2022 13:12 |
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Here's a good article on those random texts and how they operate. https://maxread.substack.com/p/whats-the-deal-with-all-those-weird
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# ? Sep 22, 2022 13:25 |
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I had what felt maybe less like a scam and more like trying to take advantage of consumer ignorance to sell shoddy merchandise. My wife and I ordered a double-computer desk for our office so when we both had our own work-from-home space. It had good reviews and a free return listed. When we received the product, it was slightly damaged and also much lower quality than expected. We initiated the return process, it was approved, but the seller only provided a shipping label that required postage. This was a heavy box, and the cheapest option I found to ship was $140. The seller was only offering a $50 credit to ship it back, or to replace the broken parts. They claimed they could not offer a pre-paid shipping label due to "new rules implemented by Amazon." Turns out Amazon has an "A to Z" guarantee where they will refund the total cost of the product without requiring a return if the seller listed the item as a free return but do not provide a pre-paid shipping label. The frustrating part was going back and forth and having to dig through the Amazon site to discover this guarantee, but once it was found the chat bot handled everything automatically. Just wild how easy garbage merch in Amazon can get listed with great reviews.
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# ? Sep 22, 2022 18:03 |
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The whole review system is so easily gamed now that reviews don't really mean anything. Plus these quasi-scamming companies just nuke themselves and start over with a new name/account as soon as negative reviews catch up to them. In theory Amazon's total lack of any fucks to give about this stuff could be an impetus for a return of the brick-and-mortar retail industry, unfortunately in practice the big retail companies are just as quasi-scammy in their own way. Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Sep 22, 2022 |
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e: ignore this
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# ? Sep 22, 2022 18:08 |
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I went for being proud that I spent stupid amounts of time reading as d writing helpful reviews and now I just look at pictures and roll the dice I’m way better at demanding refunds now though. Mods please change my name to a Professor Karen
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# ? Sep 22, 2022 22:45 |
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My WIFE wrote a lot of reviews for Amazon but for some reason got banned and can't get unbanned, despite every person she talks to there promising to unban her.
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# ? Sep 22, 2022 23:03 |
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Just as a reminder, Consumer Reports still exists and is still good. They necessarily can't review every category, but you at least have trustworthy reviews on things they do.
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# ? Sep 22, 2022 23:48 |
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Amazon turned into eBay years ago, lots of dropship middleman stores, garbage copycat products, and a straight up marketplace for scams. ReviewMeta.com arose as an algorithmic filter for fraudulent reviews, but it has that abandonware feel about it now, so take its results with a grain of salt. I don't buy anything on Amazon that isn't at least coming from their warehouse and has the easiest possible returns.
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# ? Sep 22, 2022 23:58 |
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Etsy got bad fast too and everyone good abandoned it Ironically eBay is pretty good these days
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# ? Sep 23, 2022 00:28 |
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Whenever I see a number come up and it appears to be within my cell network, I know it's going to be a scam. Got this today: As I answered the phone, the recording was already going. Them: "...or your service will be disconnected. Press 1 to be connected to our service center. Me: *1 Them: This is the service center. How may I help you? Me: You called me. Them: You were transfered to me from the center. Me: Who are you with? Them: [actual name of my electric company] Me: Prove it. *click*
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# ? Sep 23, 2022 00:43 |
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Optus - Australias 2nd largest telco - has had the personal details of a whole bunch of customers stolen recently. We're talking name, dob, drivers license and passport information. Not payment info but absolutely everything you need for identity fraud stuff. Things that can not be changed easily individually too let alone at scale. So things are going to be wild here for some time.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Whenever I see a number come up and it appears to be within my cell network, I know it's going to be a scam. iOS 16 seems to have "report junk" on scam texts that aren't just in iMessage. I also copy/paste scam texts and send them to my carrier (SPAM/7626). I doubt it does much but it feels like doing something.
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# ? Sep 23, 2022 13:53 |
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lostleaf posted:I fell for this scam about 2 month ago. You're welcome to laugh at me. I was googling and found a Ryobi air pump for about less than half price. My thought process was "Hey they accept Paypal, I can just dispute whenever I like. Even if it's a scam, I won't lose any money". I order using paypal as payment method. This is a new one for me, kinda clever I have to admit. So many ways to do transaction fuckery. Glad you got your money back.
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Inceltown posted:Optus - Australias 2nd largest telco - has had the personal details of a whole bunch of customers stolen recently. We're talking name, dob, drivers license and passport information. Not payment info but absolutely everything you need for identity fraud stuff. Things that can not be changed easily individually too let alone at scale. So things are going to be wild here for some time. Good luck on your free year of credit monitoring or lump of raw coal or whatever booby prize Australia gives credit fraud victims.
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# ? Sep 24, 2022 01:55 |
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Probably pecked by an emu.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Probably pecked by an emu. well yeah, ever since the war they have to send an annual tribute of sacrifices
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