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Ytlaya posted:^^^ They can get really specific; like the one I posted about earlier (and quoted in this post) involved impersonating my boss (like the actual specific person, not just the role of "boss") and used his name/position. It basically relied on assuming it'd hit some people personally acquainted with him (or subordinate to him) and that they'd assume that it's safer to send the gift cards than risk getting fired or whatever. so basically this 
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Like, even in the 16th/17th century, cries of "Mammon" were pretty much just associated with "more-reformed" sects such as Puritans/Independents/Presbyterians etc.
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Aug 27, 2019 02:33
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Lutha Mahtin posted:using the word mammon to represent greed is a common idiom in western cultures in general, not just Christians who are using it in an explicitly religious sense. i know that a subset of goons have a giant stick up their rear end whenever religion is brought up in any context other than mocking it, especially Christianity, but there's really no need to embarrass yourselves like this I'm not making this poo poo up because of some reddit atheism grudge - I think you're projecting a bit, for some reason. "Mammon" for "greed" is the kind of thing that Ben Jonson puts into the mouths of his Puritain caricatures to sneer at them for being backward turds. It wasn't a commonplace expression then, and even less so now. If I'm demonstrably wrong, please provide some examples of it coming up in everyday speech.
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Aug 27, 2019 03:22
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I just watched the John Oliver video and holy poo poo these people are just pulling basic EVE Online scams.
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BiggerBoat posted:I can't believe Peter Popov, one of the faith healers that James Randi exposed, is back on TV doing what he always did and people still buy it. I listened to a conned podcast that covered him, Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart and god drat I hate ALL these motherfuckers so much. Buy a b&w laser printer and throw your inkjet into the trash where it belongs. It costs 25% more up front for the laser, the toner doesn't dry out, and each toner cartridge lasts in the thousands of pages, and it's still only $60-80 for a third-party refill.
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shame on an IGA posted:I'm frankly impressed that the local walmart got burned by aliexpress movie prop $100s with giant hot pink chinese lettering on them six times in a single day Yeah this is actually good
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Nov 22, 2019 23:06
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Yeah, at this point I just don't bother with people that get suckered into MLMs. They're basically cults that suck people in where they get lost. I'll make a token attempt but once they start posting about nothing but their MLM on social media they're just too far gone. They'll figure it out eventually but the MLMs always have a list of canned responses. "They warned me about people like you" is one of them. Calling it a "business" and saying things like "it's fine if you don't support my new business" is another. I know someone who has a staggering amount of high-level business qualifications and who posts like this. I think in this case that they know it's MLM but they are convinced they're going to "win."
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Nov 27, 2019 13:55
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The grocery store had a big red STOP sign sticker at the till telling people not to buy gift cards for paying a fee they got an unsolicited email about.
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Dec 1, 2019 03:20
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But trains are cool
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The mall near us is extremely dead most of the time except for its anchors. They keep building chain restaurants in the parking lot so it's a gigantic pain in the rear end to get in there now, which basically I'll only do when I need to go to the post office, which is at the back of the drug store in that loving mall. I can't recall the last time I went in there for anything other than the post office or the grocery store.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I've had something weird happen to me twice on AbeBooks: I order a book from a seller, get a confirmation of the order, then get not tracking number for at least a week, ask them where the tracking number is, get some weird bullshit about here being a miscommunication with the delivery company or something, then when I ask for another update they say the item got lost and issue me a refund. Is the idea that a lot of people might forget they've ordered it, or might not use the extremely simple contact interface to ask what was up? I'll have to keep an eye out for that. I often buy like 10 books at once and then the order gets fragmented into a ton of smaller orders which trickle in over weeks, so it's likely that unless it was the book I was after and not an add-on Gene Wolfe novel or something, I'd not notice.
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Oct 22, 2020 16:20
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Most of those apps take ridiculous charges from the restaurants too.
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Sydin posted:I asked the head manager at a place I used to frequent often before COVID what Doordash takes from them, and he told me that it's apparently something you bargain with them. Doordash originally came at them demanding a 25% cut but they were able to negotiate it down to 18%. Note that this is a well liked and frequented business that has three locations in town and is in the process of opening a fourth up north. So my guess is that if you're a small mom and pop then gently caress you either you eat 25% or they walk, if you're reasonably successful you can hover around ~20%, and I'd imagine national chains are even lower then that. Yeah that's hosed.
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Oct 23, 2020 21:47
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Sydin posted:
Gives me the same vibes as multibox farming in MMOs. gently caress.
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Oct 30, 2020 18:58
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Sorry if it came off like I was giving them poo poo, if anything it's loving sad that they have to jump through so many hoops just for the system to pay them something approaching a workable wage.
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Someone sent me an MLM pitch last night for "Nu Skin" and "Nourish the Children" Now even googling "Nu Skin" brought up hits that the company has been investigated repeatedly and fined for being a pyramid scheme (not that I'd get into that snake oil even if it weren't), but there is less out there on Nourish the Children. Anyone know what the grift is there?
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Hutla posted:Probably just the standard lovely "charity" that spends 95% of its donations on wildly high executive salaries and 5% on programming. Well I guess, probably. BTW this video is so loving WASPy & white man's burden that I feel that it needs some kind of TW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6PP8QW5V50
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May 21, 2021 14:28
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I've gotten burned by Newegg affiliates or whatever they're called. Quadruple check before you buy any item that you're buying it from Newegg and not a reseller partner in China.
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Jun 22, 2021 03:11
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I've been thinking about selling some of my wood carving on Etsy and this is giving me ideas for how to a) write my ad copy ("you will never see this exact item on etsy again") and b) justify raising my prices. I'll have to go through the effort of doing photos for every single item, but that's ok if I'm getting paid for the effort.
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Jun 22, 2021 19:04
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I've had that happen with both Newegg and AbeBooks. Abebooks is Amazon.
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Jun 23, 2021 13:23
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Absurd Alhazred posted:*Goes to wikipedia* I went through that cycle of depression about 6 months ago. I order from BetterWorldBooks.com now
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thrakkorzog posted:So how many people fall for your cars warranty is about to expire? I find this the most exhausting, just because I have to pick up my phone, hoping for work, and nope, it's a scammer. I've done something similar with the "this is microsoft support there is a problem with your windows computer" call - "be more specific - I have seven computers running various windows OSes right now."
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May 12, 2022 20:46
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goatsestretchgoals posted:This is legit interesting to me. just accidentally change it and nobody will know
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Jul 9, 2022 02:50
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Where I live locksmiths are all bonded and IIRC it's illegal to call a business a locksmith/lock service/locksmithing service etc here without a certain regulatory oversight.
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A few years back now but I was at my friend's house and her then three-year-old daughter was poking around watching toy slime videos on youtube (goofy voice: oh boy here's thomas the tank engine I hope no slime gets on him! etc) and then the voiceover on one of the videos started evangelizing to her about her lord and savior jesus christ. Think about how often parents put headphones on their kids for screen time. I also was under the impression that things had been fixed since then.
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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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