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[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 days ago (4 children)

how do you spend over half a billion on a wedding? did he buy the entire city of aspen and surrounding mountains?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I mean, if I were a wedding planner/caterer/anyone on staff and Jeff Bezos asked me to do his wedding, I'd upcharge the hell out of him.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago

i would take the deposit and use it to hire freelancers to do some kind of Die Hard 1 / Die Hard 3 / Under Siege sort of situation. or just get everybody to ingest/inhale ricin lol. just kidding, i would never do that because it's illegal and i am a good boy.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

someone just bill him for $450,000 for some vague reason and say it's for the wedding. he might pay it

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

i've heard of people doing that kind of thing, like invoicing some giant multinational company for something after they've figured out the address for accounts payable or whatever and getting away with it. but i've also heard of people getting caught in an audit and hit with fraud charges because it went through the US mail, which above a certain amount is a felony. but, respect the grift lol.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

OK but if I can get to a country that doesn't extradite before then I should be in the clear right? Hypothetically

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

What if I normally charge that amount, but I give everyone except Bezos a massive "not being evil" discount?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's probably not the actual cost. Sensationalism from NY Post.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

yeah he probably only spent like $450 million, which whomst among us.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah we've all spent $450+ Million on a wedding at some point or another, of course

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

You can divide $450 million by 157 and it's still more money than I'll make in a lifetime. For one event.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

My breakfast today alone was 450 million Vietnamese dong.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Was gonna say I know wedding can be expensive but damn

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

This is like twice what my wedding cost, insane

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

That's like 5 massively wasteful Hollywood blockbuster movies what the fuck