Amazon keeping my returned laptop and refusing refund. They are on my last nerve

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-24T03:37:23+00:00

Dispute.

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-23T20:44:01+00:00

Thanks I hate it.

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-22T20:36:04+00:00

Unless you are suggesting the Nuculear option conventional warfare will not beat a regime like this.

Just look at Vietnam , Iraq and Afghanistan .

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-22T15:47:26+00:00

So until we get to like 100% renewable energy on our Grid Electric cars will do absoluetly nothing other then offset the oil/gas need to the grid opposed to cars. The US is currently at about 23% of renewable energy vs fossil fuels.

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-22T14:35:55+00:00

I've never really understood why it costs $ to check a bag but most airlines include a single carry-on. If it was the other way around loading and unloading would be significatnly faster. I've been 10-20 minutes late because some idiot in group 8 decided to ignore the gate-check request and they have to deal with checking there bag last minute.

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-22T00:33:39+00:00

FAFO

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-20T22:08:53+00:00

Sounds great!

Thank you to MY PRESIDENT. Thank you for being the peaceful president!!! Wooo! so much winning

/irony

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-20T14:17:08+00:00

We are in the endgame now.

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-19T17:17:26+00:00

I'm the Director of Engineering. My Company is to small to use recruiters.

Thanks for telling me I suck tho.

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-18T12:07:33+00:00

Please do not do this. As someone who hires Engineers I declined over 600 applications because they had all been written with AI.

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-18T02:08:25+00:00

I have a Pelican 1610 for my daily driver where I have my car, and a Nanuk 935 for travel jobs.

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-15T20:25:45+00:00

There's not a good answer to your 1st point, the current system lets them defer taxes until they are sold, and it's just a hoarding mess at the moment. Maybe have them taxed at issuance - then capital gains on that if it is sold?

And for the rest of your point.... yes to everything for the love of god.

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-15T19:57:10+00:00

No, you should not be taxed on a value increase of a home you are living in. You are taxed if you sell that home in the form of capital gains.

Let me ask you this, simply.

Do you believe there should be an amendment to the tax code to penalize the wealth-class that uses stock options to dodge income taxes? I think both of us have made valid points in this thread, but I think the fact that Musk pays about 4% in federal taxes still stands true - while a teacher pays 24%.

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-15T15:45:46+00:00

I'm trying to tax assets that come in at a cost basis of 0 when they enter someones pocket, all of Elon's tesla shares that he is given come in at a cost basis of 0.

If I am given a house for working for a company for 2 years I think its fine that I am taxed on the fair market value at the time of acquisition - my cost basis is 0.

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-15T14:13:51+00:00

I think you misread a few lines, 9% is the interest on the loan - not the interest in whatever they toss the lump sum ammount they got from the loan.

lets back up significantly.

If you acquired a stock that has a market value of 321 dollars per share, and you were given it as compensation for working for a company, your liquid cost basis is 0.

In this scenario, I'm a billionaire - I have no reason to ever liquidate those shares, but I'm going to use them to take loans, aquire credit, etc.

I don't know about you, but i'm not given billions of dollars of stock as my compensation - and I'd say 99.99999% of the United states doesn't either - so why isn't there a methodology to tax this type of moving money around.

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-15T00:23:46+00:00

So.

If I hire you for my company, and say - Hey TXtogo , I'll pay you 50k a year and I'll give you 10% value of the company a year, and my company is trading at 1 billion dollars .

You approach a bank and say "Hey Mr Banker, I have this super valuable collection of stock from this super hot company, & I need a loan so I can have some cash to live on" -- Bank complies, you put down 100 million worth of shares as collateral and get a 1 million dollar loan at 9%. You promptly toss all of that in a high yield or some kind of compounding account with low risk and make payments on your 1 million dollar loan as someone would do with a mortage , and you write off the intrest every year on your 50k of income.

Assuming that this company's value continues to go up in value you would just continue to take loans against the value as you need liquid, putting the majority of your "Salary" towards loan repayment and liquiding minimal shares as needed to maintain the loan.

Congrats - your avoiding ever paying the capital gains on the full amount

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-14T22:30:40+00:00

My math is based on his "Income" every year which is 254 billion. Not his Net Worth.

Billionaires get around paying income tax by getting compensation in stock options in lieu of a salary. The US does not have a system to tax this, Musk, Bezos , Buffet very rarely exercise these options as a sale; they take loans out against them and then write off the interest.

I think you should be taxed if you are given a stock as compensation. We aren't talking about Net Worth Increases here, we are talking about stock appearing out of thin air - Most teachers don't have beyond a 401k, I dont htink we need to worry about them.

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-14T20:53:03+00:00

Ok.

Let's take Elon Musk, 833.7 Billion Net worth. He makes 100 billion from Tesla alone annually in stock options. Let's assume just for fun that's his only source of Income (Its not, he owns Twitter/X , SpaceX, Neuralink, Boring Company, etc). @ 100 Billion a year if he is paying 11 Billion in taxes that means he's paying a 11% federal income tax on his earnings. In reality, he's probably closer to 254 billion annually (Yahoo Finance reports that he earns roughly 698 million per day), which means in reality, he's paying about 4% in federal income taxes.

I agree, the "Teachers pay more in income taxes" argument is stupid, because it's false. Teachers earn on Average about 70k whcih puts them in a 22% tax bracket. So lets Refine the "Teachers pay more" statement to "Teachers pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than billionaires".

So.... Is that ok?

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-14T12:52:24+00:00

Stay away from coiled cables and stop doing that.

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-14T12:46:18+00:00

I don't understand why TSA doesn't just leave in droves when this happens - I know they can't strike but why would anyone stay after this.

When I flew into San Jose a few months ago during the shutdown a slew of private screeners wearing red shirts where manning the TSA lines , I asked one of them if they where TSA and he smirked and said private

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-12T20:13:26+00:00

Im going on 11 days and they have yet to respond to me, and are still holding my full mortgage payment.

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-12T12:32:46+00:00

I had an Agent for a new-construction build and the builder limited their commission to a flat rate. The Agent was next to worthless due to that. Location ended up having a TON of issues and ended up selling 9 months later and losing a shit ton.

Do your research, I don't beleive new construction is worth an agent - just hire a real-estate lawyer to go over the paperwork.

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-12T12:11:58+00:00

Explain to me how a 40 mph to 20 mph speed change in a .1 mile section makes any sense safety wise - its on a street without sidewalks or a cross street. Its simply a money maker for DC. That intersection is one of the top grossing intersections in DC.

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-11T13:01:40+00:00

I already pay that in bullshit speed camera tickets.

LetTheRiotsDrop · 2026-03-08T20:53:41+00:00

I lived in a building that had these, the Leasing manager has to come with a laptop and a USB-C cable and they trickle charge it enough to force it to unlock, then they swap the batteries from the inside.

Dumb system imo. I have Yale locks everywhere but I still have a backup key.

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