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That effort does not at all sound worth a $5 Amazon gift card

igetspam 7y ago
There's almost no effort. It takes less than five minutes each time, to both order and request a credit. I've wasted a lot more time than that on trying to get them to remove USPS as a shipping option. At this point, it's just a game for me.
- codemac 7y ago
  A dollar a minute == $60/hr Or around 120k/yr @ 40hr/wk over 50 weeks, pre-tax.
  - axaxs 7y ago
    I'm not sure you'd report that as taxable income, so it would probably be closer to 'post-tax'.
  - igetspam 7y ago
    So you're saying this a pretty good investment of my time, right? On top of my salary, I can effectively make an additional $120k/yr? You know the opportunity cost argument you're making is false, don't you? You're arguing that I'm risking doing something else while doing this and there's a cost associated with that risk. In reality, I risk nothing because I'm a salaried employee whose time isn't 100% filled with must-do tasks. If that were true, the time you spent replying would be actually be worth even less than the time I spend getting Amazon credits because it has no return on investment. Or are you saying I should make this my full time job?
    - superhuzza 7y ago
      It's a different poster, he's agreeing with you by calculating that those 5 minutes are quite lucrative.
      - igetspam 7y ago
        Whoops. Misread. Thanks for pointing that out. :)
aiisjustanif 7y ago
Or the gas wasted on each trip.
- igetspam 7y ago
  That's covered by Amazon in the shipping cost they pay to move from their warehouse to the USPS sorting facility. USPS isn't making any additional trips to not deliver packages. They drive out to the mailbox cluster every day except Sunday (a day which Amazon also said they'd deliver a package via USPS...) and go no further.
  - ajross 7y ago
    You have a cite for that waste? That's not remotely correct. The marginal cost to ship one package across the world is literally pennies, that's why our junk is so cheap. The cost to drive to one store for one shopping trip is two orders of magnitude higher. Buy online and save the planet. I'm serious.

There's almost no effort. It takes less than five minutes each time, to both order and request a credit. I've wasted a lot more time than that on trying to get them to remove USPS as a shipping option. At this point, it's just a game for me.

codemac 7y ago
A dollar a minute == $60/hr Or around 120k/yr @ 40hr/wk over 50 weeks, pre-tax.
- axaxs 7y ago
  I'm not sure you'd report that as taxable income, so it would probably be closer to 'post-tax'.
- igetspam 7y ago
  So you're saying this a pretty good investment of my time, right? On top of my salary, I can effectively make an additional $120k/yr? You know the opportunity cost argument you're making is false, don't you? You're arguing that I'm risking doing something else while doing this and there's a cost associated with that risk. In reality, I risk nothing because I'm a salaried employee whose time isn't 100% filled with must-do tasks. If that were true, the time you spent replying would be actually be worth even less than the time I spend getting Amazon credits because it has no return on investment. Or are you saying I should make this my full time job?
  - superhuzza 7y ago
    It's a different poster, he's agreeing with you by calculating that those 5 minutes are quite lucrative.
    - igetspam 7y ago
      Whoops. Misread. Thanks for pointing that out. :)

aiisjustanif 7y ago

Or the gas wasted on each trip.

igetspam 7y ago
That's covered by Amazon in the shipping cost they pay to move from their warehouse to the USPS sorting facility. USPS isn't making any additional trips to not deliver packages. They drive out to the mailbox cluster every day except Sunday (a day which Amazon also said they'd deliver a package via USPS...) and go no further.
- ajross 7y ago
  You have a cite for that waste? That's not remotely correct. The marginal cost to ship one package across the world is literally pennies, that's why our junk is so cheap. The cost to drive to one store for one shopping trip is two orders of magnitude higher. Buy online and save the planet. I'm serious.