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The realities of a warehouse operation make this inevitable (I’ve run an 8-figure/yr online distributor). Amazon cannot take the customer’s word on return condition. Folks just click “damaged” to get a refund and Amazon has to have warehouse workers, not professional book inspectors, receive the returns and note their condition.

This is good enough since someone buying the used copy can also return it if they disagree.


>Amazon cannot take the customer’s word on return condition.

Why not? Doing so prevents this exact scenario. I'm curious if you think this is appropriate in other circumstances too: a customer at the grocery store returns a bag of candy. Do you want the cashier to check it and decide to put it back on the shelf for you to buy?

>This is good enough since someone buying the used copy can also return it if they disagree.

But not good enough for the author, who loses a royalty payment.


This is almost exactly how it _does_ work in big box grocery except there are blanket policies re: disposal for food items. Fwiw, Amazon also has near identical policies for food items.


I worked for years in a grocery store and never saw a returned item go back on the shelf. Hope I never shop at the places you're talking about.


> Why not? Doing so prevents this exact scenario.

And creates other scenarios.


Well, like what? The book gets thrown away?


Maybe it’s more apparent in the opposite case. Customers who say the item is totally fine, but have shipped back a box of rocks.


Similarly as a kid, I was surprised to learn "One-hour Photo" was a brand and didn't necessarily mean your photos would be ready in one hour...


That is the case, but there are no mysql-supplied arm64 packages for ubuntu/debian[0]. Ubuntu/Debian have packages, but maintain their own set of patches, which the docker team would like to avoid using[1].

[0]: https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=103462 [1]: https://github.com/docker-library/mysql/issues/318


Interesting. Just one data point, but my wife and I both have airtags on our keys. When I drive her car (and she's not in it), I get a notification about her keys traveling with me. We're on the same iCloud "family" account. I wonder if there’s something else that needs to happen?


When you go into "Find My", can you see your wife's devices and keys?


I see all her other devices, but not keys. Now that I know how it should work, going to see if re-registering the keys changes things.


I would reach out to Apple about that. It’s not supposed to work that way.


“Okay, so what we’re going to try and do here, is reset and erase, and not restore from iCloud backup, so we can rule out this being something in your profile.”


Feel free to reach out (email in profile) if you want to chat. I grew an e-commerce distributor to 8-digit revenue with in-house fulfillment and software development.

Edit to add: It can be such an isolating experience. We had no clue what we were doing half the time. Hard to find anyone willing to talk that had been through it.


Thanks so much - I will do that soon!


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Soundstripe | Lead Software Engineer (Frontend - React) | Remote US | Full-time | https://soundstripe.com Soundstripe provides an unlimited subscription service to tens of thousands of video creators, from YouTubers to freelance videographers, nonprofits, and Fortune 1000 companies. We've experienced significant growth and have been incredibly capital efficient with only one round of institutional investment.

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If you are interested, or have questions, reach out to me via email in my profile. Also if you are in Nashville, TN - ping me and we can grab socially distant coffee.


Soundstripe | Lead Software Engineer (Frontend - React) | Remote US | Full-time | https://soundstripe.com Soundstripe provides an unlimited subscription service to tens of thousands of video creators, from YouTubers to freelance videographers, nonprofits, and Fortune 1000 companies. We've experienced significant growth and have been incredibly capital efficient with only one round of institutional investment.

My team is looking to for:

- Lead Software Engineer (Frontend - React): We're looking for an experienced front end engineer to join our team of 10+ (mostly full-stack) software engineers. You'll be responsible for architectural decisions that shape the future of our React codebase, reviewing code, leading automated test implementation, and hacking on new features. https://soundstripe.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=76

Soundstripe has an awesome work environment, a "flexible" (unlimited) PTO policy (_we really take PTO_), and we're Remote-first, so work anywhere you like!

If you are interested, or have questions, reach out to me via email in my profile. Also if you are in Nashville, TN - ping me and we can grab socially distant coffee.


Soundstripe | Lead Software Engineer (Frontend - React) | Remote US | Full-time | https://soundstripe.com

Soundstripe provides an unlimited subscription service to tens of thousands of video creators, from YouTubers to freelance videographers, nonprofits, and Fortune 1000 companies. We've experienced significant growth and have been incredibly capital efficient with only one round of institutional investment.

My team is looking to for:

- Lead Software Engineer (Frontend - React): We're looking for an experienced front end engineer to join our team of 10+ (mostly full-stack) software engineers. You'll be responsible for architectural decisions that shape the future of our React codebase, reviewing code, leading automated test implementation, and hacking on new features. https://soundstripe.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=76

Soundstripe has an awesome work environment, a "flexible" (unlimited) PTO policy (and we really take PTO), and we're Remote-first, so work anywhere you like!

If you are interested, or have questions, reach out to me via email in my profile. Also if you are in Nashville, TN - ping me and we can grab socially distant coffee.


I saw your comment and implemented the ability to connect a repository of static files and host them on our app platform (Uffizzi.com) -- we have a generous free tier! Email is in my profile if you have any questions or feature requests.


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