163 points

You can’t cancel your reservation within 24 hours. You can rebook it. Okay, rebook it for one week out. Call back a day later, cancel.

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Why wait the extra day, Just do it in the same call. They don’t get paid enough to give a shit. And if they do, you technically haven’t broken any rules.

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Yeah, I’m Canadian. Thus, non-confrontational by nature. Now, If I was answering a call and someone did that, I’d let them get away with it, 100%.

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Managers audit those calls. Source: I’ve worked in three call centers.

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1 point

And why should the customer care?

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17 points

You can get a kindle with ads for cheaper than ask them to remove the ads.

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5 points

and then never connect it to a network right?

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then ask them to remove the ads

Sounds like they’ll just roll over if you complain, then you can connect it if you do desire

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crazy how a single letter changes the whole meaning. Pretty cool loophole if it’s as simple as asking.

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Then just turn on airplane mode and download calibre. Also, talk to a lady named Anna about her archive.

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24 points

…or get a Kobo and never have to jump through the hoops

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Exactly. The kobo is the king. The kindle is just spyware

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2 points

Straight up.

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Took me way too long to figure this out, but I finally did. I now actually own my e-books, DRM-free.

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5 points

Or install koreader?

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Dude, you just made my evening. I have an ad-riddled Kindle that’s now going to get an upgrade today!

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3 points

Aww, and you’ve made mine

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Amex can get your money back on anything. Went to the vet they tried to gaslight me into doing an expensive procedure so I dispute the visit fee 75$

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If you’re not abusing it, credit card companies are more than happy to do charge backs via disputes.

And, what, the shady company that scammed you is going to fight a multi billion dollar corporation?

I’ve used this a few times when I got fucked and the company doing the fucking didn’t respond or didn’t care.

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If your bank can only deposit a certain amount of a check the same day and you need it all just cash it and deposit the cash

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Great tip, if you live in the 1980s

WTF

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It’s still valid today.
Payroll fucked up and I didn’t get a deposit a few weeks back. They gave me the choice of waiting 2 weeks and having the deposit added to my next paycheck, which is totally undoable, or they would cut me a paper check that day.
I took the paper check.
I decided it would be easiest if I could use my Bank apps Mobile deposit but it only allowed me to access $500 of it that day, the rest had to wait until the next business day which was Monday.
If I would have thought about it I would have done it this way so I could have had access to the whole check before the weekend.

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You still don’t necessarily get the full amount. Depending on the bank writing the check, you may only get a person available today. Payroll checks might give you all of it, but I’ve had checks deposited in person that only let me have the first 3-500 available immediately.

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Sorry, can’t imagine having a banking system that’s a decade behind fuckin Eritrea or Kazakhstan and thinking it’s the norm 😂

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105 points

Don’t be a dick to service workers. Your entire life will be better.

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Not really “loophole”, more like common sense

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Or basic manners. Although, if you want to consider basic manners a loophole, I’m okay with that. It doesn’t matter how you get there.

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But a service worker knows lots of loopholes, and they can help you take advantage of them or choose not to bring it up if you’re treating them badly.

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This isn’t a loophole–just how any decent human being should behave.

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I think working retail should be a mandatory thing like how military service is mandatory in some countries.

Everyone should have to serve their time doing retail so that they can have a bit of empathy

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