5/15/2023 ...but I want to get, like, even better
Never let 'em see that they get to you. Better yet, don't let 'em get to you. 5/13/2023 Adam Bomb
After reading over my last post about trashazon, I realized that it would be a pity to share that story and not include the email that Adam blasted through their little rinky-dink pile of bricks one evening. I guess I didn't bring it up in the original post because I had other points on my mind that I wanted to make. This way, though, that one email gets its own solo.
Before I get into that, I want to make it perfectly clear that the use of the word "bomb" in this post's title and that of the other one is purely, and always will be, metaphorical. I just don't want anyone getting any false ideas about my intentions here. Subject: On the Subject of Thievery in the Modern Capitalist Society from the Standpoint of a Species to which the Delusion that One can Benefit From Such is Entirely Foreign I'm having a little trouble understanding why we are being treated like criminals when it seems so very clear to me who the crook is here. I find it unlikely that any sane person would listen to this story and conclude that we knowledgeably donated $75 to Amazon. Now you can quote Amazon policy and legal bullshit all day long, but at the end of the day you have our money and we don't have the promised merchandise.
Though Adam came up with it completely, it was my idea to have such a lengthy subject line. I think long titles are funny. After sending it, he said, with some exhilaration, "It was almost worth 75 bucks just to be able to say that!" "Totally!!" I agreed.
Adam also recently reminded me that after having sent this email, the "customer service" agent I spoke with on the phone, who I said in my last post seemed like "a nice enough guy," when we were making chit chat, he asked if I watched football and said that his favorite team was the Pittsburgh Steelers. So yeah, either way you spell it, they stole our money, and they wanted us to know it, too. 5/10/2023 amazon dot bomb
Here's an experience I had recently with the soul-sucking cartel that is amazon.
Our original 21W Anker solar panels have been trucking with us since day one, and Adam has even re-wired one of them. So in looking to the future, we decided to order another panel. Due to the nature of our lifestyle, particularly the views that Adam is not at all shy about sharing, we thought we might try to go about it anonymously. I anonymously setup a new email address, I then created an amazon account using said email address and added the solar panel to the cart so that we could see exactly how much it would cost. It qualified for free shipping. Adam then purchased an amazon gift card using cash for that amount. I proceeded with checkout, and the first bump in the road was that, during the checkout process, the payment methods are entered before the shipping method is selected. The default shipping method was not the free shipping, so in order to proceed, I needed to provide an additional handful of money. I entered the information for a VISA gift card Adam had on hand and proceeded to select the free shipping, thus having no funds taken from the VISA giftcard, allowing the amazon gift card to cover the cost of the merchandise. The second bump in the road was that the item we were purchasing could not be shipped to an amazon locker as it was too large. We had used the amazon locker a couple weeks prior when we ordered some new battery banks. It happens that there were also some road bumps in ordering the batteries as well. Amazon claimed that there was a problem with the payment method; a payment method we had used multiple times each year on amazon for the previous 5 consecutive years. That transaction eventually went through after I called my step-father to explain the situation and see if he wouldn't mind calling the bank, per amazon's recommendation. Just step aside to think for a moment here. If you were a multi-trillion dollar organization, and I'm talking about the government here, who was trying to bring down a man, one of whose primary means of exposing your lies and treachery is through a website and the occasional forum or comment post by using a tablet which is powered by battery banks that are charged by solar panels, you'd do whatever you could to try and prevent him from obtaining more supplies that would ultimately enable him to do more than he already is, right? In order to do this successfully, it would have to be covert, right? Otherwise people might wise up to you and call for your head. It has to look like just coincidence. So you get someone, or a handful of people on staff at the outlet where you know the guy shops so they can be around to just slip a monkey wrench into the works when no one's looking. Except someone was looking. Amazon suggested calling the bank stating it was a problem from their end. The idea here is that you get tossed into an endless loop when the bank says there's no problem but amazon keeps saying there's a problem with the bank. |
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