"Cardinal Fang," "The Spanish Inquisition," "the redbirds" are all codewords for the auditors, fraud examiners, loss prevention, risk management and etc. professionals paid to watch over the faithful (anyone doing business with the businesses they protect) and cull the heretics (all of you guyz). They tend to develop the internal controls, policies and procedures that we profitably analyse for weaknesses, omissions and degradation over time.
Our federal friends dunna like to see money pressed and starched because terrorists, drug lords and the occasional CIA operation can get funded that way. Oops, my bad - blackbirds don't exist, so I don't know any, and even if they did, or I did, they certainly never ran anything called Air America and, even if they did, they never had a frequent flyer program. Or did they?
It is true that some of us run black ops and some of us run public ops. Keeping under the radar is wise, but even redbirds occasionally catch redbirds who know how to play limbo at a professional level. And blackbirds even catch other blackbirds, like that bird Katia Zatuliveter.eek:
Astro is right to ask we operate invisibly, like busy little financial termites.
But just don't go chewing on my company...
Originally Posted by
Astrophsx
What the heck are you talking about?? These people have mentioned nothing about getting shut down by their credit card. "Cardinal Fang" and "Spanish Inquisition" are these your code words for American Express?
There are people who do not know how to stay under the radar like Marathon Man making 8 amazon payment accounts and then there are people who know how to stay under the radar. One will find with most deals if you stay under the radar... overall you will get more out of a deal then going overboard from the beginning and getting banned.
AZ payments has been going on for awhile now and I think it has a fighting chance of continuing if:
1) People limit discussion on the boards.
2) Stay under the radar.. If you don't know how to stay under the radar PM someone and ask.
3) Don't get greedy. If it's working don't try and go beyond the limits.
4) If you get banned don't call Amazon. I don't think there has been one person who I've talked to or who has posted on here that was able to get a reversal from Amazon after getting shut down. If you get shut down move on! I wouldn't waste my time begging or asking why I got banned. Move on to Serve, Venmo, etc...
I hate to quote a blogger, but there are people like MommyPoints who don't use these payment services because of what has happened to people like AlohaDaveKennedy. If you have the financial info to get you out of a financial review great! But if you don't, just remember that getting 50k from Amazon payments is not nearly as easy as getting 50k from a credit card sign up.