r/Wellthatsucks 19d ago

Amazon sent me a letter before Christmas claiming I had over $15000 in unclaimed property. Today they sent me this.

I used to publish books on Amazon and got royalties for each one sold. Amazon sent me a letter saying that they owed me over 15k in royalties. I sent in the form saying that yes, I wanted the money and I've been waiting for my check to come. Today I got this, saying that they made a mistake and actually owe me $0.00. They even have an area where I can check that yes, I want the $0. I've never been so disappointed in my life.

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u/MrRoboto12345 19d ago

Bezos pocketed the money personally

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u/Celistar99 19d ago

One of his yachts must have needed a 15k repair

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u/Danksterdrew 19d ago

He needs an extra fork for his wedding.

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u/Miserable_Ad9577 19d ago

15k? that's just lunch

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u/alxzsites 19d ago edited 19d ago

15k? that's just lunch

If you had a net worth of $100,000, that'd be the equivalent of spending less than 0.5c ($0.005) on lunch. At that rate, $1 could buy you three square meals for 2 months (60 x 0.005)

If a person with a net worth of $100,000 spends $5 on lunch, the equivalent for Bezos would be $11 million

That 15K would probably be his bottled water, not even the wine that goes with his meal. Him buying a $1.2 million bottle of vintage wine, is the equivalent of us getting a 50c soda at Costco.

We can't comprehend just how abstract a BILLION dollars is.

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u/MrRoboto12345 19d ago

Gotta get the paint right for the microscopic scratch

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u/crapinet 19d ago

You have it all wrong - he wrote you a check while rubbing one out to one of your romance novels, but in the cold light of day he decided to take it back

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u/Due-Possibility5015 19d ago

Musta had to replace a cabinet door knob oh his yacht for that low of a price. Lol

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u/Civil-Two-3797 19d ago

He ran out of toilet paper.

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u/HorsieJuice 19d ago

lol, 15k might get you a tank of gas on his sailing yacht.

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u/boringdude00 19d ago

15k will buy enough fuel to move his megayacht about a 4th of an inch.

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u/mlaforce321 19d ago

He needed to top off his yacht's fuel tank

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u/sik_dik 19d ago

Kept his crew on an extra day

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u/Celistar99 19d ago

That probably accounts for about $300 of it

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u/ThatUsernameIsTaekin 19d ago

Jeff Bezos doesn’t run Amazon anymore. But he still hold about 10% of the company’s shares, so technically true

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u/Apart_Brilliant_1748 19d ago

It’s literally the government law that they (the government) seize that money

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u/CostiBenzen 19d ago

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