gesman

Fines will have to be big enough and laws strict enough.

Then the crowd hunt will ensue.

Follow the money trail is the only way.

Buy cheapest thing from them with non-anonymous payment method - and then you have some trail.

How it worked before:

AMEX Platinum comes with $15/mo Uber credit. Credit auto-expires by the end of each month.

Before - this credit automatically applied to ride and the rest charged to default credit card.

Now Uber got clever and decided to pull the fast one on their customers (and AMEX). $15 AMEX credit now pushed to "Uber cash".

And you can only apply this credit to rides that are <$15.

If ride is more expensive - you cannot apply Uber Cash credit unless you refill "Uber cash".

But here's another trick - you can only refill Uber Cash with $25, $50 and $100 chunks.

Which means if you got AMEX credit of $15 but your ride is $50 - in order to use the "uber cash" balance you can only refill your Uber cash with another $50 which doesn't make any sense for customer. You'll always be keeping leftover balance on "Uber cash". Without lending UBER your own money through "Uber cash" refills - your AMEX credits will auto-expire at the end of every month.

This way your $15 AMEX credit is expires unused by the end of every month effectively cheating customer away from reward and diminishing AMEX-promised reward program.

FRAUD!

If this cut to $4/hr is indeed true and documented act by the management - they'll soon be using their savings to pay for own legal bills.

However - better wait for the full and well-researched story to follow ...

Lawmakers want their own share and haven't been given one.

No results found for "italy".

Show stopper.

Actually number of 1-2 star reviews vs time product been listed might be an interesting indicator.

But then - it maybe competitor efforts of course.

And add to that pollution caused by large trucks. Some are literally hard to follow behind due to the cloud of poison they are fuming all over.

California's crusade on sedans to cut down on pollution is a joke.

Wow.

They charge people for privilege of giving them $25k+ to reinvest at their discretion for their own benefits?

This is lol.

While economical illiteracy of loud-voiced minority politicians is a fact that played here, I think Bezos just made out of himself a "rich jerk cry baby" who threw "i'm in control and don't need your candy" tantrum.

Lose-lose.

PS: That said, I'd be scared of how that would affect NYC traffic patterns if plans would go forward.

Anything like possible on iPhone?

+100

Amazon is trying hard to keep counterfeits and fake products/reviews under the rugs for as long as possible, so the more publicity to their ignorance - the merrier.

Not sure about funny looks in Africa, but I'm European myself.

In Europe contracts tends to be more on a "fair" side of equation (less opportunistic sneaky clauses but more in-your-face bummers).

In North America the initial paperwork scale quality greatly depends on absurdity levels of lawyers at the other side (lawsuit-prone enterprises, large corps with unlimited budgets "just because they can" and heavily regulated industries claiming "this is industry-standard contract" BS).

In my past - after prolonged, fruitless battle with IBM lawyers - I accepted all [ridiculous] IBM terms and was rewarded with 5 yrs of doing well-paid, WFH, interesting, creative, cool stuff.

So there is no hard and fast rules - go with your gut sometimes is a best advice.

That's a typical trick of open source stuff owned by heavily commercial entities.

Sales dance to follow.

They are targeting decision makers or managers who are given a budget and deadline. Meaning "spend your budget wisely and deliver or else...".

If you're an individual looking for a deal - move on...

Or zerotier (to do it safely)

Sell it before building it.

If there are no buyers - validation done.

If there are buyers - refund money, apologize for delay, send X% OFF coupon and start building it.

Maybe a bit controversial but works with many types of products or services.

(About 15 yrs ago I had an idea to combine all esoteric spiritual ideas that belongs to certain fragmented discipline into one place and sell it as eBook. That exactly what i did and was very surprised to give 4 refunds within short period of time, before putting it "off market")

With that said - in many cases lawyers from the other side would fight to remove "AND ON TIME" wording. Which is somewhat OK (delays do happens), but "IN FULL" should be firm and present.

I feel uncomfortable with sync-style communications with sales people that demand 100% of attention to their persona.

To me the sale is a matter of clear equation: success=min(price). If I have extra questions - i'll call or schedule appointment and come to talk.

Otherwise I am not interested to listen to the other guy's sales pitch and his life stories. If dealer is unwilling or incapable of answering simple question over email - this leaves a perception of some sort shady character and I move on.

And likely so others too.

Good to know.

Hence, the reason dealers are unwilling to give a price in writing is because they know they're asking too much and will likely be beaten by the other dealers.

Clear sign to move on to other local dealers.

Salespeople has this stupid mentality.

They’d rather lose sale than talk over email to customer.

I was on the market for brand new luxury sedan and certain dealership was insisting of me coming in rather then disclosing their price.

I took my business elsewhere.

In my experience I never had a single case of objection to that (correcting one-sides clauses).

Few iterations back and forth - yes, but it's clearly fair.

Tip to save on lawyer:

Read contract yourself then get back to company and request to either remove all one-sided clauses or make them equally two-sided.

Also - add clause stating that unless you paid in full and on time - all IP belongs to you.

Most contracts try to pull the blanket one way.

Once done, then call your lawyer with resulted paper.

Much less work for your lawyer to do.

Banks do that when adding new credit cards or checking account numbers and so on.

Presumably for making it more secure

Fraud

Redeadit. Made in China now.

It's up to developer to weigh the risks and make an informed decision.

The real problem is betting your business on someone's platform that you absolutely cannot control.

I think we have these "OMG (Google|Youtube|Adsense|Paypal|eBay) terminated my account and it's a disaster!" - once a week at least.

Freedom to do the work any way, anywhere.

Regulation is required.

Otherwise destroying 1 paparazzi or 1 tabloid will make another 5 pop up in their place.

55.

I moved to management position but still do development when no one is looking :)

My Co just published a worldwide press release over system I built over last Xmas break. So it's fun from all sides.