For reals? I sell very little on TeePublic…like $5/mo. They overpaid artists back in November and need everyone to pay them back. For me, that’s $.23. If you really need the $.23, I’m not sure you’re going to last as a company.
These mails probably were sent automatically without checking how much the artists owed. So it isn’t really that they need that money but that they just sent this to everyone.
Computers are really good at comparing two values, they have a dedicated circuit.
I once closed my account with BoA in person and they paid me out in cash. This was 2009.
I got a letter a few months later stating that they overpaid me and I owed them 19 cents.
I told them I had an FDIC notice that I no longer had an account with them and they could fuck off. They said that they’d “let it slide.”
Once upon a time, my landlord’s management company tried to shake me down for an additional day of rent. I pointed out that my rental agreement stated I would pay exactly $x every month, so they can pound sand. They, too, decided to “let it slide.” How magnanimous.
(Edit: I just remembered, first they tried to argue the contract shouldn’t have been written that way so I still had to pay. Wtf.)
I swear they must have created a new spreadsheet with an off-by-one error somewhere and mailed out hundreds of bills instead of double checking.
“No you see I’m paying the 31 days price and you’re pocketing an extra 7 days every year, so I should be charging you for those days.”
first they tried to argue the contract shouldn’t have been written that way so I still had to pay.
“So what? You’re the ones who wrote the contract. It’s your fuckup, you pay for that not me…”
You don’t get to be an $80 billion company by leaving 23 cents on the table.
Or any company. Accountants absolutely hate Pennies missing. Dollars are easier to stomach but Pennies makes them nervous that some miscalculation that signals a bigger issue is going on.
boss here was havin’ a fit over 2 cents last week.
it was her goof. and involved numbers much larger than 0.02. i think she got it all sorted now.
Exactly. It’s not that it’s a small amount. It’s the “why”.
What did I mess up and is it going to require a team of people to prove there isn’t some nefarious thing going on.
Same reason you get mailed a 12 cent check that cost them more than 0.12. It makes the books make sense and if the check expires then the amount moving into the right account then also makes sense.
So they can sign off on the numbers as being correct.
I once had to sit down with a suppliers accountant because the billion dollar company I worked for couldn’t figure out why the PO and the invoices on about 50 orders were slightly off.
Reason: The supplier and billion dollar companies systems used different units of measure. So the conversion created a rounding error as the billion dollar company only went out 4 decimal places This led the the invoices being between $0.01-$0.05 off. All told the difference was $0.01.
It took us 2 hours and I had to buy the suppliers accountant lunch to get it sorted out.
Oh that sounds like fun.
But will there even be anything left of that after credit card fees? I mean I guess they are a huge company, maybe they pay less in those fees. Then again so are credit card providers. I’m sure they want their share too.
True story.
I use EZ Pass. I got a letter from them telling me they had taken 46 cents out of my account. The cost of the stamp on the letter was 48 cents.
Send 25¢ by mail and ask for the change back.
Ooh, good Ole malicious compliance.
Make it a check.
Even better, pay with visa. The processing fee will be more than 23¢
*olé
But let them keep 10%!
First TeePublic removes perfectly legal Luigi Mangione shirts, and now this.
They were dead to me after the luigi incident. Now this is mearly affirming my opinion of them as a company.
I’ve had this happen at places that then refuse to just adjust the next bill. The IRS is notorious for that actually. What’s that, you owe $3? You better fucking pay up, there’s no way we’re just going to take it out of your next year’s taxes.
They probably sent it to everyone they detected they overpaid, no matter the amount. I’m sure they don’t actually care about $0.23 - it’s the people who sell a lot more than you they are worried about.
Then they should probably run their business better.
I mean, it probably went down like this:
Accountant: I discovered a discrepancy in the payout system, we paid people too much!
Manager: Hey Engineer, somebody (not me) fucked up and now I need you to fix it, get me the list of everybody who owes us money.
Engineer: Yes boss! … Ok here’s the list.
Manager: Ok now I’ll just have Marketing send out an email to everyone on this list.
Engineer: Well some of these people owe us only $0.23, we don’t need to bother them, right?
Marketing: Too bad already sent!
True. If they had an ounce of common sense, though, they would set a minimum amount below which they don’t bother to send a message.
Ahh, corporate hypocrisy:
Ever hear of the browser extension “HONEY?” Paypal has been stealing infuencers money through the browser extension honey.
https://www.lieffcabraser.com/consumer/honey-paypal/?gad_source=1
Send them $.50 and ask for your change.
This was my dad. He fucking despised capitalism and giant corporations, and forcing them to mail him a check for $.15 several times a month was his go-to antagonism. He might, legitimately have been a facet of the fall of sears and the one holding the USPS together, the way he forced sears to mail him a check every few days.
But only 90% of it because you’re generous like that.
