Maximum scumbaggery?-false. Minimum profit?-false. Not path to wealth?-true. Exciting times ahead?-maybe. High potential for future OOT entertainment value?-not likely but in good company. Or at least company.

Grunching:

This is a fantastic scam!
So can you buy a big ticket item at full retail (like say a TV) around black friday time, screen shot an Amazon lightning deal or whatever other awesome online price you can find, submit your claim, and then return the original item in order to pocket the cash from the refund check?

I would assume a return would go to your cc and they would have something in place for that, however a refund issued as store credit would work.

Also, since they state that it is beyond and in addition to any store price match policy you could do something like buy a high ticket item, get the price match from the cc, then get the price match from the place you bought it which in some cases--like a mattress for example, could negate almost the entire price.

I have no plans to do either of these things however.

Don't let us down Johnny, go order that bed and report back!

I'm not in the market. I don't even know what kind of bed Dwayne "the rock" Johnson from the hit hbo comedy series Ballers sleeps on so I wouldn't know where to start.

Yes it is scumbaggery. At what level? I'd say a 2.5-3.5/10 obvs with 10 being the worst.
The question to ask is, 'what would an honest person do?'
That's a rhetorical question and you know what you're doing isn't honest.

That homeless guy obviously got what was coming to him.

Literally nobody is honest. People who claim they are do not need go very far beyond the surface to prove they are not. Give me 5 minutes and I'll prove the most honest person you know supports action they know is not okay.

yeah, he must have been a real POS, life on the streets wasnt punishment enough, he needed to get hit by a car too.

JT,

You should set up an Amazon seller account, then put up $1 listings for any item you want to buy!

I'd say its' like 7 or 8 out of 10 scummy IDK.

Update on good vs evil: after chatting with Amazon CS to make sure that the charge came off of the gift card and was applied to the credit card with the guarantee, I checked back a few hours later and saw it unchanged. I chatted again and found out I was very close to getting karma'd right out of my sceme.

I had to cancel the order and rebuy with the card. Retake screen shots. I am paying for this deviance by being forced into effort. I was starting to think this was all a sign that I should just dial it back and be content with one pair at the suppressed price but I decided that being nice and fair doesn't get you anywhere big league.

Another important fact that may change the minds of some of you morality fans is I discovered from reading Amazon reviews that John Hamm wore these same sunglasses in season 2 and 3 of Mad Men while portraying the main character Don Draper. Clearly worth selling out for.

"I discovered from reading Amazon reviews that John Hamm wore these same sunglasses in season 2 and 3 of Mad Men while portraying the main character Don Draper. Clearly worth selling out for."

This is correct.

WTF

Your time must be nearly valueless.

How much do I owe you for the time you took to drop this gem, you "mover not shaker" you?

ETA I see you are still giving advice to MLY in her trainwreck thread. Laugh out loud at your criticism of internet time and effort use. At least I'll look like don draper. Save the energy you would use on me for her.

Recent citation, please.

Good lord. Dude. I get that you are just tryna be mean on the internet but take the L on this line bro. Anyone who posts anywhere on this site regularly has no business pretending their time has any value. You fit that description like a ****ing glove. Since you insist, here:

Imagine all the great things you may have accomplished with your super valuable time used on this very important message. I recommend you use some of it to gfys.

ETA: I'll assume no response to this will be because you are too busy making loads of cash and not because I'm right.

Sorry you had to go back over a week and 400 posts in that thread to find that. It must have been grueling work.

And when someone has already made loads of cash they don't need to spend their time grubbing around for pennies trying to scam Amazon.

Only in OOT does someone open a thread hoping to be commended for his scumbaggery and then complains when someone tells him he is assuredly a scumbag but only at the penny-ante level. *sigh*

I didn't complain about anything, or even disagree, just pointed out you are an obvious hypocrite, a point you have skated by with this weak deflection.

For your future reference, if someone demands proof about their posting in a lame attempt to deny a demonstrable assertion, you do not need to wade through an entire thread to find the proof. Just click their name and look for their posts. Super easy and you can get back to important binness.

Turn some of that fantastic insight into people's motivations for posting inward and let me know what you come up with!

Of course nobody is honest. However, you're doing something that is eating at your conscious enough that you make a thread for it. That is most likely done so that you can get reassurance from people on here to continue because you know what you're doing is wrong. After all who suffers? Amazon? That tax dodging organisation will get no sympathy. The CC company? Again, a large financial business that would not show you any sympathy so why care about them? After all lots of people do similar and much worse don't they?

But don't measure yourself against the standards of others. You know this is not honest and a little 'dodgy':but you'll continue.

Not that you would, but imagine you were taken to court for this. How would you defend your actions whilst in the witness box?

The motivation assigned to me for this thread by you, and the super cool rich dude who has made it to the point that he can enjoy **** posting in his leisure time (maybe me someday!), is logical but not accurate. I am much more interested in the discussion of how we reconcile our supposed moral questions, and this forum, full of people who love a game of exploitation but adhere to codes and rules like biblical law is a great place to find interesting views on it.

I am conflicted by it, but it is really pretty ****ing stupid to be, because the conflict is how you describe it. It doesn't feel right, but there are many giant aspects of the transaction I ignore to get to that final one. I mentioned a lot of them, but basically I have to turn a blind eye to all of the damage caused by the entire system that I am participating in. Consumerism, vanity, capitalism, environmental...this question...knowing I am taking advantage of a rule by breaking the spirit of it even though I am not breaking the letter of it is a weird place for me to draw the line and thus I am examining it. I do not feel guilty about it to be honest tho, and it is not because of any rationalizations, I just don't.

And for the court of law question, I did absolutely nothing that is remotely against the law or even the rules set out by anyone involved, so that would be easy. A better question is how I would explain myself to my kids. The answer to that is pretty much what I stated here. We all need to find our line but i advocate being honest with myself about how I manufacture that line. It is imaginary, and leaning too heavily on accepting it as anything more than a device to cope with all the things we ignore or deny day to day, like our buddy Tom up there moving the goalposts on exactly why he is better than me, means you are not honest. Less honest than the person who pretends they have figured out how to be a good person and quit examining it for sure. That's my line for now.

You have no assurance the glasses are fakes. For all you, or anyone who doesn't work for them, knows the manufacturer had a serious glut of inventory that desperately needed liquidating.

Do not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. The fact that we cannot live 100% morally does not mean we shouldn't be doing our best when we can. IMO.

I like the Kantian approach to universal law. In layman's terms (which are the only terms I've got), for an action to be moral you must be willing to desire that everyone can (and actually should and will) do what you are doing.

Also, if you're even asking the question you know it's questionable, and by doing it anyway I believe you're putting a little dent in your internal well-being. I believe that all those little dents add up and take a toll. In that sense, acting morally is a form of self-care.