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Never heard of them, had to go look it up. Going to assume you got 3 pairs? I suppose I could see not remembering the $1000 charge for clothing if you had been
by SV_BubbleTime 4y ago
Never heard of them, had to go look it up. Going to assume you got 3 pairs? I suppose I could see not remembering the $1000 charge for clothing if you had been looking at it like 3 or 4 purchases… IDK, I don’t own fancy shoes so I’m having lots of trouble getting in your head space.
- jrockway 4y agoThe problem is the abbreviation. Imagine you saw "NEWEGG" on your statement. You'd think "I didn't buy $1000 worth of computer hardware". But that transaction was actually Newton's Egg Farm and Trucking, a contractor that does grocery deliveries, and indeed you did buy $1000 worth of groceries online three weeks ago. That's the problem here; ambiguous transaction descriptions. Sure, you don't buy clothes, so you aren't confused by an Allen Edmonds purchase being marked as American Eagle on your statement. But this can happen in many, many domains.
- kstrauser 4y agoAnd to make it worse, suppose it was “NEWEGG.com”. By my reading, that’s the same as saying they’re the same company that owns that website. It removes any ambiguity, which is usually a good thing.
- thathndude 4y agoIt was actually two pairs of shoes by the time I paid for tax. But it was one style of shoes in two different sizes, intending to send back the other size. if it was some $10 trinket that I was excited to get from Amazon, I probably would have remembered it immediately. But, shoes. Boring