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He's just got a lot of energy.
And yet somehow he always looks like he's slowly dying of a serious disease.
I think all four of my ancestor comments are common "New Yorker" things.
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Interesting. Is there equivalent data on the question "should two people of different races be allowed to marry?". Seems more relevant than the question asked, which is arguably about states rights.
I think we've had our fill of "states rights".
Yes California must be crushed under the Unions boots for flaunting federal laws on drugs for decades.
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#423Our personal Amazon account was closed, per their claim, because we used our prime account for business purposes or something like that. We often bought gifts and shipped it directly to our friends. We also did it for our friends from Belarus, sending gifts to their friends in the USA. I bet it triggered some kind of anti-dropship rule. I am very particular at trying to not tie myself into their ecosystem, but we had…
Funny, we have ordered some stuff from Amazon and had it arrive from Sam's Club. I guess they don't have as strict of rules around drop shipping. I've also sent Costco mugs all over the country to backers of my Kickstarter, with no trouble!
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> How would a scammer bring in a steady stream of new customers? Spam email campaigns. Or google ad campaigns. Twitter bot spam. There’s lots of ways to get people to click on Amazon links and make money. Especially because I think Amazon gives you the 4% of anything they buy in the next 24 hours or some period. Since a large percent of humans have Amazon accounts and buy stuff pretty recently if you can just get you…
Why not show a box to users on the website saying, "It looks like you came from xyz, we'll pay them 4% of this sale. Is it wrong? Click here to report it."
It would be better to pose the question after the sale is complete, imo. Ask the costumer which partner, from a list, contributed to get him/her to decide for the product.
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#425To use Amazon's terminology here, it really feels like they're becoming a Day Two company. It took decades to cultivate the perception that Amazon cares about customers more than any other company. It takes so much less to destroy that image. Google has already started paying the price for their customer-hostile behavior. It's a meme at this point how unreliable Google is for anything. Amazon and AWS have consistentl…
It was Day Two at Amazon by the time Jassy took over, roughly the same time they began paying lip service to being the "most customer centric" company on their "leadership principles" rather than actually just doing it. It became more and more apparent every month and precipitated my exit.
They have been royally MBA’d
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#426Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes and I find it similarly extreme that a company would disable someone's doorbell because one person claimed something racist was said through it (?!?!). Are they going to set up a little Amazon Ring court to adjudicate every claim?? If Amazon hadn't taken that extreme step in the first place, the stakes wouldn't be so high, and there would be less reason to discipline the employee (for the record I don't think the…
Ironically, the doorbell was the thing that wasn't an Amazon product and wasn't disabled. ;-) And yes, I recanted on the 'firing" part, but I still feel that Amazon's "resolution" here was weak-sauce compared to the "extreme" action taken in the first place. At this point, I'm guessing they wish they'd offered the customer some minor token (say 2 years of free Prime at a minimum) compensation in return for an NDA on…
Ahh sorry I incorrectly assumed an Amazon Ring doorbell. (If those even exist…)
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Same is true in the presence of law; there's just more bureaucracy.
I disagree. Law (not in a vacuum but as practiced) can distribute power and thus unseat the power of strength alone. In many places throughout history, a strong person could hit whomever they wanted excepting the rich and aristocratic. A man could in this way dominate his family and neighbors. The only recourse was honor killing and revenge. Today, in many places, even minor assault will result in consequences. In th…
Well, that is a fair point; conflating law and state was an ironic mistake for this anarchist to make.
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#428Summary: The YouTuber had his Amazon affiliate account canceled after 7 years without warning or evidence of wrongdoing. The reason given was that purchases made through his links were for personal use or made by friends and family, which he denies. He finds the timing suspicious as it came a week after he made a video criticizing Amazon for canceling a customer's account for a racist doorbell claim. He argues that t…
It's not just Amazon. All big tech companies have this "trigger happy" approach to closing down accounts. Especially payment companies. I believe we need to pass down new consumer laws to protect the people. We pretty much rely on their services and they have no accountability.
...except that's the system working as designed?
It's a strategic goal of the United States to be able to drop individuals out of the economy.
Don't let the foreign part cloud the picture. You cheese off someone bad enough, we have the mechanism to put an entry in place that echoes out to every lawfully operating money transferer, and suddenly, you don't have money anymore.
Every money transmitter's legal department has a full time department that just day in and day out handles law enforcement or government requests.
Other governments I assume enforce their own versions. Using "The Royal No One", here; but no one wants a world of unrestrictable interaction at a distance. In any form.
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#429Could he sue Amazon for slander/defamation? Amazon claims he defrauded them = they claim he is a fraudster.
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#430For those who don't watch the video: This is about his affiliate account. It is surprising, that there is so little competition for affiliates these days. Amazon seems to be almost the only game in town. Sure, there are thousands of other affiliate programs. But they pay surprisingly little. Often affiliates earn only like $0.05 per click (on average). While the same company pays $1 per click on other channels like G…
They're not "afraid" of getting scammed. They get scammed often. Affiliate marketers often use shady techniques to get the click. It's a tale as old as time. Wasn't there some browser extension years ago that was inserting it's Amazon affiliate link into webpages?[1] A large amount of the spam we receive in our email is ulimately just some affiliate trying to earn a commission. Affiliates don't have ethical rules the…
> It's very, very hard to find the "old days" true affiliate that drives any significant traffic.
The shame here is that Louis Rossmann is that type of "old school" affiliate. I buy equipment because he talks about it in detail. Otherwise I might just pick up whatever is at Microcenter, etc.