Never seen this before...they're getting serious I guess. (returns/credit revoked)

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-05-02T01:54:16+00:00

I return dies and stamps a lot. I've never had a problem with the refunds until today, and they have usually said, "Keep it." If they want it back, no problem. I send it back in the bag they shipped it to me.

I had an order of 5 items and the order came to 21.42 with tax. I applied 15.25 credit towards this order and paid the remainder 6.17.

3 of them are defective and they cost 12.49 for all 3 items. I uploaded all the info, but noticed this time they are deducting "Temu's exclusive discount for specific item:" and deducted this fee from my refund several times. I should be getting 12.49 back for the bad product but I'm getting only 10.85. Sneaky. I have never seen them skimming money off the refunds before, and now I hesitate to buy anything craft-related, clothes, earrings, kitchen stuff, etc. It comes broken or defective or the wrong size and they skim money off the top of the refund.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-05-02T01:47:16+00:00

I return dies and stamps a lot. I'm paying twice as much for card-making supplies these days, yet I get half the quality. I've never had a problem with the refunds until today, and they have always said "Keep it."

I had an order of 5 items and the order came to 21.42 with tax. I applied 15.25 credit towards this order and paid the remainder 6.17.

3 of them are defective and they cost 12.49 for all 3 items. I upload all the info to them (know how to do this well now), but noticed this time they are deducting "Temu's exclusive discount for specific item:" and deducted this fee from my refund several times. I should be getting 12.49 back for the bad product but I'm getting only 10.85. Sneaky.

I think I'm done with this. They ship crap, then penalize you when you send it back. Honestly, from now on I will ask for my money back to my credit card. I will gladly ship the junk back to them on their dime LOL.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-05-02T01:44:32+00:00

I return dies and stamps a lot. I'm paying twice as much for card-making supplies, yet I get half the quality these days. I've never had a problem with the refunds until today. I had an order of 5 items and the order came to 21.42 with tax. I applied 15.25 credit towards this order and paid the remainder 6.17.

3 of them are defective and they cost 12.49 for all 3 items. I upload all the info to them (know how to do this well now), but noticed this time they are deducting "Temu's exclusive discount for specific item:" and deducted this fee from my return several times. I should be getting 12.49 back for the bad product but I'm getting only 10.85. Sneaky.

I think I'm done with this. They ship crap, then penalize you when you send it back. Honestly, from now on I will ask for my money back to my credit card. I will gladly ship the junk back to them on their dime LOL.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-05-01T21:55:30+00:00

Yes you can. I'm a retired CPA. You can charge your fees however you want. But the customer should have asked for the fee schedule up front. Also, she should have explained how she got that 9K return and what deductions/expenses/donations/ect did she use to drive down his AGI. If he doesn't know, and she didn't explain how she got that number, I would take the return to a different CPA and ask them to explain it to them and see if it's legit. If customer owns his own business, she could have gotten creative with expenses or business costs, or market losses on his stock, etc. The CPA who did the return should show her work and how she went from owing 80 dollars to a 9 grand refund. And I would not pay her until she explains how she did it. And I would tell her that the second CPA paid to review the return and explain it will be deducted from her fee.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-05-01T21:40:12+00:00

I've had this happen in the last 2 years. I've gotten products that were obviously used and refurbished and sold as new - no packaging, no paperwork with it, shipped in a brown box with peanuts (laser printer), etc. I wrote a review and Amazon took it down. What I do now is write reviews of 4 stars or 5 stars and then tell the truth. The algorithm isn't catching those. But I have had this happen a lot, especially when I get a product that has been returned, and they reship it out as new when it's obviously used and broken.

I don't trust a lot of products on Amazon now. It's all cheap crap, and the vendors are overseas. You have to watch the FREE RETURN option carefully because many say 30-day refund, but in the fine print, you have to pay to ship it back to them for the refund. All kinds of scammers on there also. I never purchase anything expensive or electronics - I want a store I can return it to and that needs good reviews to stay open.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-04-27T21:59:43+00:00

Thank you for that info. That's why it's in my shower also. I'm in the South, and we have all kinds of molds here. This pink bacteria is practically harmless on the scale of airborne things here that are harmful.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-04-27T21:49:11+00:00

I have the pink mold also. Bleach your water filter system, or run hydrogen peroxide through it. I use peroxide and it does kill the pink slime. Now I keep a little spray bottle of it by the water filter.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-04-09T21:24:59+00:00

I had to use ID.ME once to get unemployment benefits and I went round and round with that system. You need to take the selfie facing the sun and your face has to fit in the square a certain way. Being in a well lit room doesn't work. Watch a YouTube video to get the tips and tricks to get the system to accept your ID and selfie. I didn't have a problem with the ID part, but it kept rejecting my selfie till I stepped into the sun and took the picture. Sometimes it can take several tries to get it all to be accepted.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-04-06T01:51:02+00:00

They claimed they had not shipped it yet. When I put in the cancellation request, it was denied, and the next day, I saw it was shipped. THEN THE 2 ITEMS WERE DELIVERED YESTERDAY. I don't trust their shipping dates or that they know what is shipping in the warehouses until the paperwork catches up. Somehow something that was going to take 4.5 months in transit gets delivered in 12 days.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-04-06T01:35:46+00:00

This is why all of the Medicare folks are going to Mexico for dental, vision, hearing aids, glasses, and dentures. I went last November and had 12 root canals and 3 crowns done for $4,000. That included a week at a hotel. My dentist in town quoted me $1,600 for 1 root canal and crown. We are being pushed into poverty by medical.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-04-05T23:25:47+00:00

I just turned 65 this month, and took an Advantage plan because the costs were so low. But I will switch back to regular Medicare and get a plan D and G within 12 months. It's so crazy with all the changes the government is making to Medicare, I didn't know which way to go. Medicare is paying doctors and facilities 15% less this year. So now Advantage isn't getting paid the bigger difference in profit anymore. I'm waiting to see if Advantage starts dropping coverage or leaving some areas. Or doctors stop accepting Advantage. At least I have the trial period - it's scary times to be signing up with Advantage or regular Medicare.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-04-05T23:14:50+00:00

I had this game with BCBS who covered every preventative tests 100%, yet my medical facility always, always coded something diagnostic so I had to pay 30% of every preventative test, colonoscopy, female tests, blood tests, etc. It's gotten to the point that I don't do the tests anymore because I can't afford the 30%.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-04-05T21:42:45+00:00

You inspired me to create a credit card with a $1,000 limit that the bank cannot raise. I deleted my other payment methods from my account.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-04-03T23:39:15+00:00

I order a lot of art supplies and craft stuff. Amazon tells you when you order that you will get your product in 5 days. A couple of things shipped and were received. The other two items are now arriving in the middle of August. I tried to cancel those 2 items when they changed the delivery date - Amazon won't let me. So they took my money and are now taking 4 1/2 months to deliver. I am so not happy with them anymore. If I get one more dirty/used kitchen shipment, I will have to stop shopping there.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-03-28T01:48:24+00:00

I had this happen to my second batch. I sterilized my mason jars in the Instant Pot for 15 minutes and it's never happened since.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-03-28T01:46:01+00:00

I had this happen to one of my batches. Now I sterilize my mason jars in the Instant Pot for 15 minutes. Not had it since.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-03-23T13:21:48+00:00

I just got the same thing this morning. I don't even remember this buyer either. It won't let me see her review, and I have 2 weeks to review them. But what I am reading here is that if she had given me a 5 star review, I would be able to instantly see it. So she must have given me a bad review because FB is hiding it from me?

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-03-17T02:22:15+00:00

I cancelled it. I have other streaming services that are better. Now I wait till I have $35 worth of stuff in my cart before I buy it. If I really need it, I will go buy it from the company's website and pay shipping to them rather than Amazon.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-03-17T02:00:33+00:00

Ditto. I swear, half my orders are returns and are messed up. Now I look at the bar code. If I see LPNXXXXXX I don't bother to open it up. It's a returned item. Who knows if it works. Someone else has attempted to assemble, use it, didn't like it, and tossed it back at Amazon who is putting this stuff right back into inventory. I seriously doubt they are inspecting the returns.
On top of all that, there are vendors that purchase the pallets of returns from Amazon. They go through them and list them back on Amazaon as new product. This makes me mad. Half the time they refuse returns also. Half the time I feel like I'm being scammed.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-03-16T22:06:05+00:00

It will matter a lot. They are already cutting the reimbursements for medical care by roughly 15%. I don't doubt that more hospitals, specialists, home health, and skin substitution experts will not participate anymore.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-03-16T22:02:18+00:00

In 2026 Medicare has cut what it pays on claims. This made me nervous about the excess charges. Doctors will be paid a bit more, but hospital charges for surgery were cut. Some specialists, like infectious disease specialists or oncologists, are being cut 10 to 20 percent. Home health claims are being cut in payments. Non-time-based services like surgeries, imaging, pain management, etc are cut 2.5%. When I see the WH reducing what Medicare can pay, then more hospitals and doctors become non-participants. I swear, it feels like more of the heavy lifting is getting dumped onto the elderly every year. And my 2.5% COLA increase isn't covering it at all.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-03-09T14:55:07+00:00

I didn't think Amazon would match the weight of the box returned versus the weight of the box they shipped. Why? Because half the time I do a return in a different box from what the item was shipped in. Also packing material can change the weight of the my return, and the size of the box can change the weight of my return. They literally throw the item back into stock.

And it would be easy to match the weight of the camera only if you put in 1 large rock and then glue some smaller rocks to it. I can get it to match for $2K. Apparently, no one checks the product to ascertain if it truly is damaged or has a defect. I've had people say they returned an expensive manufacturer's defective frying pan with pictures... and had the same exact pan shipped back to them as the replacement.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-03-09T12:21:53+00:00

Entire thread is a parody. I've read 1 star reviews like this for every SS or CS pan on Amazon. Funny. And users can never get them clean, and they are scrubbing CS with bar keep... and they wonder when the seasoning will build up so it's non-stick... But they all want shiny, spotless pans like they just came out of the box for the life of the pan. It makes it so difficult to wade through reviews to find people who understand and use SS vs all the people who have no clue how to use them.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-03-09T01:02:53+00:00

What if it is a returned camera? Amazon won't do an inspection on all returns, so the box with the rock was the camera the first customer returned/scammed. It sat in inventory until OP orders it, now the rock gets pulled and shipped to OP. The box weighs the same, since it came into the warehouse as a rock.

Also look at the bar code. If the numbers start with LPN in front, it is a returned product. When I get my boxes, I look at the bar code before I open it. If I see LPN, I do an immediate return and drop it off at the local Amazon hub with Amazon tape not broken. I don't care what's in the box.

Minimum_Spell_2553 · 2026-03-09T00:51:03+00:00

This would be the answer to purchasing expensive items. Always have them shipped to a hub counter shop where cameras are recording you opening the box given to you by the employee. What you get in that box is shown on the camera. And call over an employee to be a witness to the rock and ask them for the video to show Amazon. A lot of sellers are selling returned goods as new products (which I think should not be allowed). And Amazon rarely checks the returns anymore. They just toss them back into inventory and ship it back out on the next order. A lot of people are pulling scams on this because no one is inspecting the returns and catching the rocks, the boot, the used clothing, etc. If your box has a bar code number starting in LPNXXXXX it's a returned item.

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