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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: June 10th, 2023
  • Chozo@kbin.socialtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Are Instacart tipping reccomendations insane or am I being miserly?
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    9 months ago

    Instacart is being miserly by not paying their workers a fair wage.

    Instacart is paying their workers fairly. It’s just that the driver is not an Instacart worker.

    They’re not employees, they’re contractors. And when you, the customer, place an order, they are now your worker as you’ve entered into a contract with this person. They aren’t working for Instacart or the store, they’re working for you. And you’re the one who pays for their time and labor, that all comes out of the service charges on your order.

    That’s how all these apps work. They don’t get paid anything by the app, they get paid by you through the app.

  • Chozo@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•How would you feel if Beehaw left the Fediverse?
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    10 months ago

    While I would understand your reasoning for doing so, I would be disappointed to see it happen. There’s decent discussions on Beehaw that I enjoy taking part in, however if you guys decided to defederate or switch to a different platform entirely, I doubt that I would make another account somewhere else to follow. I like Beehaw’s content, but I have enough accounts to keep track of these days after everything split from Reddit, so it would ultimately be a loss for me.

    I’m not sure if this is a commonly-held opinion for those of us outside of Beehaw, though.

  • Chozo@kbin.socialtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Paid full price and got this in the mail (open box). GameStop and I have different definitions of “new”
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    1 year ago

    So, here’s what probably happened.

    Physical GameStop stores will usually open a handful of new games that they receive, so that they can put the boxes on the shelves. But the boxes are empty. You take the box from the shelf for the game you want to buy, bring it to the counter, and they go into a locked drawer that has their stock of games, and they put the game into the box, and then sell it to you. This is assuming that they don’t have any unopened copies available; usually they will, but if you’re unlucky and happen to catch them at the end of their stock for a particular title, you might get one that’s been opened so that the box can be used on display.

    Unfortunately, a lot of would-be thieves don’t realize that the boxes on the shelves are empty, and steal them. So if you’re really unlucky, you’ll get a generic box that they print out like this if they don’t have any originals left. Usually these boxes are only used for used games (where they bought the game without the box), but sometimes they use them with new copies if they absolutely have to. Depending on the store and the cashier, you can sometimes get them to give you a small discount for the missing box, but I’m not sure if that’s a corporate policy or not.

    I believe that they can technically still sell these as “new” product, as opposed to “unused”, because the product never left the store’s possession during this opening/storing process, and isn’t the same as a returned product being resold. So what likely went down here is that when OP ordered this game, due to availability or logistics or whatever, they sent a copy that was being held at a physical GameStop store, instead of from some warehouse.

    If you’re really worried about it, OP, you can probably contact GameStop and request a return or replacement for an unopened copy. In my experience, they’re usually pretty understanding about that. It’s an annoying extra hoop to jump through, but unfortunately that’s just always been a risk one takes when buying from GameStop.