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Re:Walmart announces next-day delivery, firing back at Amazon by igetspam on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @10:09AM (#19909588)
There's almost no effort. It takes less than five minutes each time, to both order and request a credit. I've wasted a lot more time than that on trying to get them to remove USPS as a shipping option. At this point, it's just a game for me.
Re:Walmart announces next-day delivery, firing back at Amazon by codemac on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @11:01AM (#19910178)
A dollar a minute == $60/hr

Or around 120k/yr @ 40hr/wk over 50 weeks, pre-tax.

Re:Walmart announces next-day delivery, firing back at Amazon by axaxs on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @01:25PM (#19911516)
I'm not sure you'd report that as taxable income, so it would probably be closer to 'post-tax'.
Re:Walmart announces next-day delivery, firing back at Amazon by igetspam on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @02:47PM (#19912595)
So you're saying this a pretty good investment of my time, right? On top of my salary, I can effectively make an additional $120k/yr? You know the opportunity cost argument you're making is false, don't you? You're arguing that I'm risking doing something else while doing this and there's a cost associated with that risk. In reality, I risk nothing because I'm a salaried employee whose time isn't 100% filled with must-do tasks. If that were true, the time you spent replying would be actually be worth even less than the time I spend getting Amazon credits because it has no return on investment. Or are you saying I should make this my full time job?
Re:Walmart announces next-day delivery, firing back at Amazon by superhuzza on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @03:00PM (#19912737)
It's a different poster, he's agreeing with you by calculating that those 5 minutes are quite lucrative.
Re:Walmart announces next-day delivery, firing back at Amazon by igetspam on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @03:04PM (#19912769)
Whoops. Misread. Thanks for pointing that out. :)