Paxos | Sr. Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer | NY, NY | Onsite (remote until end of year) | https://paxos.com
Paxos is a leading blockchain technology and cryptocurrency company reshaping the financial industry. As the first regulated Trust company for digital assets, Paxos technology makes it possible to tokenize, custody, trade and settle assets.
Site Reliability Engineer: The SRE team is focused on a building and scaling a secure, reliable, and fault tolerant platform for all of Paxos' applications around the globe. We use the best tools for the job such as Terraform, Kubernetes, Aurora Global DB, DynamoDb Global, Python, Ruby, etc. to get the job done.
Senior Software Engineer: We use Go and Kotlin to architect and scale blockchain technology modernizing the financial industry by creating a future where all assets—from money to commodities to securities—are digitized and can move instantaneously, 24/7. You'd be joining a small team, so you'd be able to make a real impact, and have a voice developing industry changing products. Don't worry if you don't know Go or Kotlin as long as you're open to learning.
If you are willing to take a pay and level cut, why not just pay your relocation yourself? It's not expensive long term if you think you will do well and be rewarded at the new company.
Exactly. Stores like Kroger use their data, make generic versions of popular items, and sell right next to the brand at eye level.
Amazon just does it at a larger scale.
I use the Amex online chat to block a specific merchant when I want to cancel. Takes less than 60 seconds and they will decline any charge matching that merchant descriptor.
It's probably disputable as in violation of their merchant agreement, but yeah most people will just suffer under the consequences instead of pushing back.
“However that doesn’t stop them from trying to collect payment directly from consumers. A review of some merchant agreements found online were silent on the issue of whether they can subsequently try to collect from consumers. And when we asked the major card companies whether their merchant agreements restrict this practice, only American Express responded, saying in an email that, “American Express has an established charge dispute process in place that takes into account both the Card Member and the merchant perspectives. Our policies do not prohibit a merchant from seeking to collect payment from a Card Member for a transaction that is charged back to a merchant.”
Interesting. I guess it doesn't violate the merchant agreement...
...which makes sense in that a valid debt can't be invalidated by a chargeback. But it doesn't turn an invalid debt into a valid one either.
And if you have a contract that you cancel in accordance with the contract (e.g. making the required request to the required phone number then limiting your call to a reasonable duration after doing so), charging back charges for periods after your payment obligation ends shouldn't give them a valid basis to send you to collections, contract or no contract.
They would be unable to prove a valid debt in that case, so a dispute with the debt collector and/or credit bureaus would get it off your credit.
Yes, if he merchant is not operating in good faith, it’s easy to outmaneuver their collections efforts provided you’ve kept good documentation.
If they are operating in good faith, and your chargeback is not legitimate, expect a blemish on your credit until you settle the debt (if sent to collections).
Yup. And a smaller blemish even once paid, for something like 7 to 10 years after that. (That's the retention period for collections information on credit reports.)
Are plans really priced liked that? 4 years ago, I secured a policy (PPO) for my small company (15 employees in NYC) and they did not ask the age of any employee, just the total number. All people were covered at the exact same cost. The cost to insure an employee with a family was obviously higher, which is something younger employees often to not have.
This is great news for Amazon. They already collect sales tax on everything they sell in most states (47 I think?). Now that smaller sellers (marketplace sellers, eBay, etc.) also have to collect tax, that hurts the ~8% discount built in, so why even shop around?
The problem with Amazon is that shipping can take months for non-prime users. In most cases you are better off buying from walmart if they carry the item.
How does f'ing the third-party sellers help Amazon? You know they make money from them, too right? If anything Amazon and eBay have offloaded inventory and sometimes logistics risk onto third parties and they're happy to just extract rent. They're not interested in going back to be a first-party warehouse of everything.
