hnthrow234

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   by hnthrow234 4y ago

   True, gift cards can be scammy, but in this case, Amazon calls it "gift card" but it is basically just Amazon credit I have loaded onto my own account with my own credit card that I've already used on tons of prior orders. So
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   by hnthrow234 4y ago

   That's true. Though there's probably only one or two other options in any given area. Like you might have the Whole Foods, the regional Safeway/Kroger/Publix type of store, and a Costco maybe. And among those stores the
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   by hnthrow234 4y ago

   Any anecdotes? Or just generally it has been good? Do you get groceries from Walmart+?
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   by hnthrow234 4y ago

   Absolutely an algorithmic issue and your comment about edge cases is spot on. But when the algorithm flags an edge case, whatever happened to manual review by a human? In this case, any human looking at this transaction would have found not
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   by hnthrow234 4y ago

   > they just don't care about you That's probably true, and it is a deeply unpleasant feeling. It seems like a binary customer experience: everything goes swimmingly, and that's great and you happily ingratiate yourself to
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   by hnthrow234 4y ago

   When things like this happen it is a wake-up call to diversify which companies you patronize. But the sheer scale of some like Amazon makes that difficult. For instance, if you buy groceries from Amazon-owned Whole Foods, to order for picku
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   Ask HN: Amazon locked my account and demands copy of my billing statement?

   8 points by hnthrow234 4y ago|14 comments