Talk to your bank, you may be more qualified to buy a home than you know - stop renting.
Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
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Re: Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
#32I reject the premise that something simply being cheaper is an abusive situation.
This is the sort of thinking that leads people to state that (for example) smaller apartments shouldn't exist, because someone will be forced to live in them. A purely theoretical person, of course, no-one they actually know - some sort of downtrodden non-entity.
The entire economy is set up on the basis that negotiation is a thing that people can and will do. If you don't do it, you're setting yourself up to get shafted at every turn; this sort of thing is the least of your issues.
I wouldn't rent a flat like this because it sounds bloody stupid. It makes me think of American sponsored things. 123 North Street brought to you by Coca-Cola(tm) and Amazon(R). Weird unnecessary legalistic nonsense.
Re: Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
#33Re: Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
#34I reject the premise that something simply being cheaper is an abusive situation. This is the sort of thinking that leads people to state that (for example) smaller apartments shouldn't exist, because someone will be forced to live in them. A purely theoretical person, of course, no-one they actually know - some sort of downtrodden non-entity. The entire economy is set up on the basis that negotiation is a thing that…
this would clearly have an income effect where instead of paying $x on stuff i would normally buy elsewhere i would pay $quota at amazon. Down the road, after plenty of competition has been destroyed, they can raise their prices and quotas to their best needs, not mine. It’s the sort of thing that starts out OK and winds up abusive.
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#35I would not want a house I own or rent to have microphones and or cameras installed "for" me..... Forget the math about rent, they're bugging my house.
I feel like this will all be seen as “the dark days” before regulation at some point in the future. I hope...
Re: Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
#36I reject the premise that something simply being cheaper is an abusive situation. This is the sort of thinking that leads people to state that (for example) smaller apartments shouldn't exist, because someone will be forced to live in them. A purely theoretical person, of course, no-one they actually know - some sort of downtrodden non-entity. The entire economy is set up on the basis that negotiation is a thing that…
this would clearly have an income effect where instead of paying $x on stuff i would normally buy elsewhere i would pay $quota at amazon. Down the road, after plenty of competition has been destroyed, they can raise their prices and quotas to their best needs, not mine. It’s the sort of thing that starts out OK and winds up abusive.
You choose to engage in it.
I would personally stay far away from any rental agreement that had weird corporate subscriptions going on.
Re: Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
#37Thought experiment (I don't actually want to go down this road): can you out-market Amazon in this scenario? If you have a $400 committed spend for a $500 rent discount, can you find people who would buy things from Amazon anyway and offer to make purchases on their behalf at a 1% discount (which is, on paper, obviously rational for them), such that you're now getting back $396 of the $400? Now you're spending a mere…
A more wild and outlandish thought experiment: would you become infinitely indebted for infinite reward? Imagining some cyberpunk wasteland where every commodity, pastime, medication, and media content is wildly expensive but offset by huge subsidies from complicated conglomeration of other corporations and government entities. Every action you take in your life adds wild positives and negatives to a fantastically co…
I'll take a cabin in the woods.
Re: Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
#38It seems the premise of every rental or subscription service is that you will send them more money, on average, than if you purchased the items a la cart (on average). I'm basically betting against a company with way more time, data, and expertise which seems like a fools agreement.
The flip side of this coin is that I get free stuff subsidized by investors in hopes that eventually they get big enough or kill enough of their competition to get to the above state.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps so. But would I really want to do that?
Seems alright to me
Well, some people in my household have various food sensitivites. We have to be very careful about what we buy (different brands of milk, say, are very much not equivalent.) I'm not buying food from a vendor who's known to do brand substitution.
Re: Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
#40The day that starts happening is the day that some CEO's need to be removed from the gene pool.