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[-] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago

I mean you got paid 5 quid to rent a movie. I'd call that a win...

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Okay, so go buy a gas station sandwich for that money. You weren't paid anything, you got "store credit in gift cards". Which means you paid them for a movie, they took your money, then later they "gave you back" something that doesn't have any value at all to them - they can "print" store credit anytime they want, and those small amounts won't matter in the long run.

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

can use it to rent another movie

[-] OneClappedCheek@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Infinite movie rental loop

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Which isn't "I got paid for renting a movie"

[-] HughJanus@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Dude it's Amazon. You can buy virtually anything with that store credit.

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And that makes it okay? As I said - go to a gas station and buy a sandwich there. Let's see if they approve "amazon store credit" as a valid currency

[-] gian@lemmy.grys.it -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fine, but that is how it works pratically everywhere, it is not an Amazon specific thing.

It is extremely rare that even a real store give you back real money if you return something and some time have passed, they usually just give you a coupon of the same value.

The problem here is that Amazon take your item, not that you return something and got a coupon for it instead of real money

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, whatever. You weren't paid to rent a movie like OP said you were.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

If the movie could be bought with 5 quid, then it probably was already an old movie.

They basically forced you to rent an old movie that would have been in the discount bin.

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