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ComradeChairmanKGB, in fucking delicious
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Hail corporate

520, in Billionaire has never heard of the Streisand effect.
rothaine, in fucking delicious

Hot take

Crazy bread > cheesy bread

XCraftMC, in Hamas supporters when Hamas rapes women

stop picking sides jesus christ, everone here is at fault. what you mentioned, israel bombing hospitals, among other things. the whole situation is sad

itsgroundhogdayagain, in Billionaire has never heard of the Streisand effect.

This guy hacks

gedaliyah,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

Allegedly.

Phew, I just saved you from a petty lawsuit.

Custoslibera,

I don’t use the word hero very often, but you, are the greatest hero in American history.

KingThrillgore, in fucking delicious
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

Five orders of normal bread please

DigitalTraveler42, in Billionaire has never heard of the Streisand effect.

Great story about the overall hacking for hire industry in India, of which this guy is the primary dickhead:

newyorker.com/…/a-confession-exposes-indias-secre…

andrew_bidlaw, in Billionaire has never heard of the Streisand effect.
@andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works avatar

Let’s remember that folks: Rajat Khare, the co-founder of Appin, has zero, no connection with hackers-for-hire markets and he hired people to erase his name from several articles around the globe to be not associated with it in any way.

gedaliyah,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

Zero. Probably even less.

andrew_bidlaw, (edited )
@andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works avatar

BREAKING: Rajat Khare, the co-founder of Appin, achieved negative connection to hackers-for-hire markets. His vast philantropy project called ‘DONT’ now pays every person in the world a cent a day for them not to do any hacks, even ethical ones. A quickly mounting price that would amount to $160 mil by tomorrow and $400 mil by the end of the week doesn’t scare the billionaire. In an exclusive interview with The Reporter, he said, quote: ‘Honestly, I hate money. Just yesterday I was hungry late at night and I tried to eat a bar of gold, thinking it may be a chocolate one. Nah. Fucking gold. For the sake of my own dental health, I though, let’s just get rid of these’. Although one cent is not enough to thrive even in the poorest states, that’s the first experiment in a worldwide UBI. When asked directly, if he’s secretly a left-leaner, Rajat was rendered inaccessible due to repeatedly picking dollar bills out of his safe and burning them with a weird fascination.

A promise of a better future, or a scam to buy payment data from everyone? Watch our guest experts at The Reporter at nine!

JPJones, in fucking delicious

Is this an ad?

Mr_Blott, in Free Dinner Strategy

Worst. Meme. Ever.

Mr_Fish, in This is basically what drives the economy

6 months later, all three cards have expired, so all three companies get $25 of free revenue, and no one really got anything for Christmas.

Gift cards are a fucking scam

runner_g,

If you are in the US, gift cards are required to be valid for at least 5 years (federal rule) and many states have longer rules. Also some states require unspent money to be paid back to the card holder as cash. There was a thread a couple of days ago on Lemmy all about gift cards and relevant consumer protections.

thetreesaysbark,

I wonder if prices being 24.99 makes a difference here too.

That would mean that for each gift card where the full amount is not spent, the company keeps 0.01. That 0.01 is technically owed but it doesn’t prevent the company from earning interest on the unspent cash (I don’t think).

nudnyekscentryk, (edited )
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Also some gift cards require own contribution to the purchase. For example a $25 card could only be used on a purchase of $25.01 or above so you still have to pick something that you will pay out of your own pocket for

Patches,

Which gift cards are those?

I’ve never heard of that being something you would purchase.

I could only see it existing if I had a $1.00 gift card to the dollar store. Because nothing costs a dollar at the dollar store anymore.

nudnyekscentryk,
@nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info avatar

Ikea where I live (Poland) does that. You have to spend at least 0,01 PLN yourself, even if it means not using the entire amount of the gift card that was available

Patches, (edited )

That’s crazy. That sounds like it should not be legal.

Why not just require they spend $200 to use a gift card? That way the store either keeps the $50 gift card in cash on the books, or they make $250 in sales.

Tlaloc_Temporal,
@Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca avatar

Kinda sounds like they require a link to your finances, so you can’t do anonymous online purchases.

JimVanDeventer,

Gift cards expiring isn’t legal in Canada. We just expect you to lose them, and there is still plenty of profit in that, apparently.

misophist,

They don’t expire here, 3ither, but I found a 10-year-old gift card after a move and the company had switched to a new gift card system, so I had to spend an hour calling around to get my ancient gift card converted to modern store credit. It was not worth it for $20.

Sprokes,

Another story of Americans (or from countries following American model) getting screwed? Where am I gift cards can be used for multiple purchases.

Voyajer,
@Voyajer@lemmy.world avatar

They can here as well, but they can expire if not used for 5 years.

Patches, (edited )

And in places where the money doesn’t ‘expire’ because it’s illegal.

They charge a ‘Maintenance free’ of like $1/month every month until it is worth $0.

Tbf I am shocked they have not started charging overdraft fees on them because “Fuck consumers” is the American way.

Honytawk,

I hate them.

They basically force you to go to a specific store after the holidays before the allotted time expires. What if I don’t have time to go to that store? What if I don’t need anything from that store? What if I don’t like the store?

I’d rather they give me something useless than a gift card that is going to expire anyway.

Kusimulkku,

What if I don’t have time to go to that store?

How short is the time in your gift cards that you can’t find the time to use it??

notasandwich1948,

I don’t understand them either, just give people cash

Kusimulkku,

It can seem more thought out to give giftcards than just money.

notasandwich1948,

yeah but I’d honestly prefer to get cash more than a gift card

Thyrian, in Free Dinner Strategy

I don’t understand.

CorrodedCranium, (edited ) in This is basically what drives the economy
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

Of course. Then you are obligated to spend at least a little more than $25 so they aren’t going to waste

pigup, in It’s finger lickin shit
rickdg, in This is basically what drives the economy
@rickdg@lemmy.world avatar

it’s tru deau

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