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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

It turns out that accommodating spoiled aristocrats who order shit they don't need from halfway across the Earth on a whim has a cost, and let me tell you: that cost isn't coming out of the executives' salaries!

Every time you return something, you are adding data to a spreadsheet that returns the value of "fuck you."

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I was trying to buy a replacement cap for one of my Japanese-made water bottles.

The same thing happened to me with a part of my Hario coffee grinder. Turns out import duties from Japan costed more than the item itself, but I had already bought it and needed it to get my coffee.

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