Month: November 2019

If you think Amazon isn’t monitoring your sneaky return habits, think again.

According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, the e-commerce company will terminate your account if the folks at Amazon HQ think your return habits are pesky (read: you’re constantly returning items).

Apparently, Amazon won’t say how much is too much, and instead offered a very vague explanation of what they consider annoying consumer behavior. Startlingly, customers interviewed in the report said they weren’t notified of their deactivated account, meaning you may not even realize you’ve been blacklisted until you try shopping once more.

“We want everyone to be able to use Amazon, but there are rare occasions where someone abuses our services over an extended period of time,” an Amazon spokesman told the Journal. “We never take these decisions lightly, but with over 300 million customers around the world, we take action when appropriate to protect the experience for all our customers.”

Though Amazon’s return policy doesn’t flag abuse of their services as reason to shut down an account, the Journal adds that, “the company says in its conditions of use that it reserves the right to terminate accounts in its sole discretion.” As Racked points out, Amazon is monitoring how smooth and efficient your returns are, plus how often you’re asking for a refund. Do it too much, and you’ll get the ax.

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For Nir Nissim, a customer whose account was closed abruptly, not getting a warning was the most painful part, especially since he still had a $450 Amazon gift card. He basically received an email that read, “You cannot open a new account or use another account to place orders on our site.” He eventually got his account activated again after working with customer service representatives who told him he returned too many items.

Next time you send something back, just remember, they’re watching.

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Khloé Kardashian is urging fans to do their part to aid the migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border.

“As a new mommy, there is nothing in this world more important to me than my baby girl,” tweeted Kardashian, 33, who welcomed her first child, daughter True, with Tristan Thompson on April 12.

“It has been heartbreaking to watch what has been going on at the border, and impossible to comprehend that we live in a country where children are torn from the arms of their parents, who are dealt the ultimate punishment for wanting a better life for their families,” she continued. “Whether you believe that refugees should be allowed into this country or not, this is not how human beings treat each other. This is not how we foster love and acceptance. This is not who we are.”

“There are thousands of children now separated from their parents and we must not let these children be forgotten, nor can we let this moment be forgotten. We have to do better than this. Please tweet, talk, call, post, write, donate,” she concluded, tweeting a donation link.

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Kardashian’s sister Kim Kardashian West also recently spoke out against Donald Trump‘s administration’s policy of separating children from their parents when they illegally cross at the border, which the president reversed this week by signing an executive order.

“I think it’s heartbreaking. I think it’s so sad,” the 37-year-old told KTLA. “It’s heartbreaking. I don’t know what I would do if those were my children.”

Despite her recent meeting with Trump, which led to the pardon of Alice Marie Johnson—the 63-year-old great-grandmother who spent 21 years in prison on a first-time, nonviolent drug charge—Kardashian West said she doesn’t have leverage to influence the president on every matter.

“I do see people have been tweeting me about that, like, ‘Can you help with this?’ ” she said. “I don’t work for the White House. I don’t have influence.”

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“I’ve always been very open and honest with there are a lot of things and policies that I don’t agree with, and I’ve always been honest from the start with the whole White House team about that,” she continued. “I stayed really focused on the case of Alice Johnson and prison reform, and I would love to help out there. If there’s anything that I can do, I obviously would do it, but I don’t have that power.”

After over 2,000 children were separated from their parents at the border, Trump signed the order reversing his administration’s policy on Thursday.

“We are keeping families together,” Trump said from the Oval Office, where he was joined by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Vice President Mike Pence.

“At the same time, we are keeping a very powerful border and it continues to be a zero-tolerance,” he continued. “We have zero tolerance for people who enter our country illegally.”

As CNN pointed out, in signing the order, Trump “officially reversed his debunked argument that he had no authority to stop separations of undocumented immigrant families at the border.”

BANGKOK – Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday that China is planning to hold a trilateral summit with Japan and South Korea next month in the southern city of Chengdu, according to a senior Japanese government official.

The summit, held annually on a rotating basis by Tokyo, Beijing and Seoul, has occasionally been suspended during periods when relations between Japan and its two neighbors have chilled due to historical and territorial disputes, and when there has been political turmoil in South Korea.

Li’s remarks came amid lingering concern over whether the three East Asian nations would be able to set a date for the summit this year, with ties between Japan and South Korea frayed by a dispute over wartime compensation and trade.

Trilateral cooperation “would contribute to the world,” Li was quoted by the Japanese official as having told Abe at their meeting on the sidelines of gatherings related to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Bangkok. Tensions between Japan and South Korea have escalated since late last year, when South Korea’s top court ordered a Japanese company to pay compensation for forced labor during Japan’s 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.

During their meeting Monday — their first in around a year — Li and Abe also agreed that the two countries would step up coordination for a planned state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Japan next spring, the official told reporters.

Abe, meanwhile, took up politically sensitive issues such as Hong Kong and China’s recent detention of a Japanese professor.

With months-long pro-democracy protests escalating in the former British colony, Abe urged Li to resolve unrest in the city in a “peaceful manner” through dialogue, while effectively calling on Beijing to release the professor, who was arrested in China last month for alleged spying.

Li and Abe also exchanged views on regional affairs, including the East China Sea and North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, the Japanese official said. North Korea has recently resumed missile launches amid stalled denuclearization talks with the United States. Beijing is Pyongyang’s closest and most influential ally, while Tokyo has no diplomatic relations with the regime.

Abe has expressed his readiness to meet the North’s leader Kim Jong Un “without conditions” in an attempt to achieve a breakthrough over the issue of Pyongyang’s abductions of Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s.

Japan-China relations have also seen strain over wartime history and territory but the two neighbors now describe their ties as having “returned to a normal track.” In a sign of the thaw, the two neighbors have promoted reciprocal visits by their leaders. Abe traveled to Beijing in October last year and Xi visited Osaka in June for the Group of 20 summit, where he held one-on-one talks with Abe.

Tokyo and Beijing have basically agreed on a visit by Xi next spring, with Abe inviting the Chinese head of state to come “when the cherry blossoms bloom.”

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Red Bull Salzburg sporting director Christoph Freund says speculation linking Erling Braut Haaland with Manchester United “do not burden” the striker.

Haaland has scored seven goals in four Champions League matches this season, leading to rumours that Man Utd and Arsenal were set to go head-to-head to sign him.

And with Haaland also boasting an incredible record of 16 goals in 12 domestic appearances, the player’s father – former Leeds and Man City midfielder Alf-Inge Haaland – has also played his part to talk up his son’s future.

The teenager recently admitted that he is flattered by the reports, but insisted “it’s f*cking boring” to keep reading about it.

Freund told Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung (via Sport Witness): “He’s a cool guy and he’s very good with it. The rumours do not burden [him]. I think it’s more of an appreciation. This is great for the player and for the club.

“We are happy with the development he has made in such a short time. It is extraordinary for such a young player to have such statistics at the age of 19 and to have a positive spirit as well. If he does not hurt himself, he will make an extraordinary career.”

Freund also accepted that Salzburg will be unable to hold onto Haaland for ever, he added: “We also know about the mechanisms of football.”

 

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Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward is reportedly ‘confident’ that the club can seal a deal for Bayer Leverkusen midfielder Kai Havertz.

The 20-year-old was linked as recently as 10 days ago to United with the Daily Mirror saying that Man Utd signing him ahead of Europe’s leading clubs ‘would be a major coup’.

While United ‘believe it’s worth the investment’ as he ‘completely fits their identi-kit in age, talent, potential – and the X-factor ingredient [they] are looking for from future signings’.

And now the Daily Star has a fresh report on Wednesday that claims the Red Devils are ‘plotting an £80m raid on Bayer Leverkusen’ for Havertz.

United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer ‘has made Havertz his No.1 target’ but that Woodward will ‘wait until next summer to make his move’.

The Daily Star claim the reason Woodward is so confident of landing Havertz is because he knows he can make Leverkusen an offer they will be ‘unable to turn down’.

The Germany international, who has been tracked by Man Utd since the start of 2019, scored 17 goals for Leverkusen last season and has three from midfield so far this term.

 

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp felt the low-key 2-1 Champions League victory over Genk was “job done”.

With Manchester City’s visit on Sunday looming large over proceedings there was a feeling this was a game which just had to be got out of the way with the minimum of fuss and disruption.

That was highlighted by Klopp‘s six changes, including resting key players like Roberto Fimino, Sadio Mane, Andy Robertson and Dejan Lovren.

Goals from Georginio Wijnaldum and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain – either side of Ally Mbwana Samatta’s equaliser just before half-time – was enough to take them top of Group E and within a win of qualifying for the knockout stage with a match to spare.

“‘Job done’ is the headline for the game, pretty much, but the group is not decided. It’s a tough group,” said Klopp.

“The most important thing; we won and nobody is injured. Apart from that, the result is the result because we didn’t finish our situations off like we should and could have done.

“That keeps the game pretty exciting, and left Genk alive. It was clear that it would be a bit tricky in some departments because the front three (Mohamed Salah, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Divock Origi) never played together in these positions, in a formation like this.

“We are first in the table but we want to be first after the last matchday and now we have to play two tough games, and two important ones.

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“In each of them we can decide it with a win, but that sounds easier than it is because both of them will be really tricky.”

Genk boss Felice Mazzu was pleased with the way his side performed after struggling for form recently.

“I am very proud of my players,” he said.

“We changed the philosophy, we had no time to work on it on the training field, we took a risk to come here and play the best team in the world with no time to play this way.”

 

Frank Lampard admitted he’ll struggle to objectively analyse Chelsea‘s 4-4 draw with Ajax, but praised the entertainment value.

His young Blues side fought back from three goals behind, going down 4-1 in the early stages of the second half, capitalising on two red cards for the Eredivisie champions.

Captain Cesar Azpilicueta thought he had dramatically claimed all three points for the Blues, only to see his 78th-minute strike disallowed on review for a handball against Tammy Abraham.

Chelsea had earlier looked set to slip to their heaviest Champions League home defeat after the Dutch club went 4-1 up at a stunned Stamford Bridge.

An early Abraham own goal was cancelled out by Jorginho’s penalty following a foul on Christian Pulisic, before Qunicy Promes’ header, an own goal from Blues goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga and Donny Van De Beek’s strike put the visitors in complete control.

But, after Ajax defenders Daley Blind and Joel Veltman were each shown second yellow cards in the space of a minute, Lampard’s side battled back in sensational style.

“I can’t explain the game,” he told BT Sport after the match.

“For all the things we might analyse back, the madness of the game, we are here for entertainment I suppose and anyone who watched that has to say what a game of football. Respect to Ajax, what a spectacle.

“I don’t think I have been in a game like it. The two own goals were the story of the first half. I said at half time it will be 3-3 or 4-4, we were so in the game.”

It’s now all to play for in the final two games as Ajax, Chelsea and Valencia are all tied on seven points in their Champions League group.

Ajax and Valencia still have to play one another, so Chelsea remain masters of their own fate, but they face a tricky trip to Mestalla to face Valencia, who beat Lille 4-1 tonight.

“We looked dangerous and I felt we would build momentum,” Lampard added.

“I am not happy overall, this is the Champions League and we made too many mistakes.

“The biggest pleasure is the spirit the whole stadium showed. I can’t give you much on the red cards, I didn’t really see what they were for.

“At half time I would have taken a draw for sure. Let’s take it as what it was. I was expecting somewhere towards 10 minutes of added time, not sure where four came from.”

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High-street shoe chain Office has reported a leap in profits by more than 20% in the first year since Scottish business tycoon Tom Hunter took over the company. The company announced a increase in sales to GBP33.5 million, up from GBP25.7 in the same period last year.

Office, which employs 383 staff across the UK, saw pre-tax profits swell to GBP 2.5 million from EBG 2.05 million the year before. Prior to the GBP 15 million takeover in early 2003 by Hunter, Office opened one or two shops a year. Under his leadership, the retailer is preparing a portfolio of approximately 80 stores. During the first 12 months of Hunter’s reign, the group opened seven new places of business, taking the current portfolio to 30 stores. A further 10 stores opened this year.

The management team, spearheaded by chief executive, Richard Wharton, continues to build the brand’s presence and see profits grow. Wharton is also involved in expanding Office’s sister brand, Oube, which is poised on the threshold of a major expansion plan. With a GBP40 million injection, the brand is to grow into a150 store chain. Wharton was very optimistic about the future of the brand, reporting that the new shops had been trading according to expectations.

The entire management team, including Wharton, will receive a piece of the GBP1.12 million pie in the form of a GBP45.79 per share dividend pay-out. Hunter himself does not receive a salary from Office, preferring to reinvest his earnings into his investment company West Coast Capital, which owns Office.

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Perhaps the celebrity endorsement of fair trade has finally struck a cord, as UK sales of Fairtrade products increased by 50 per cent to £140m last year, according to new figures from the Fairtrade Foundation.

The figures were released by the foundation, which awards the Fairtrade mark, to coincide with the launch of Fairtrade Fortnight 2005, running from March 1 to March 13. More than 800 Fairtrade retail and catering products carrying the mark are available in the UK, supporting farmers across 49 developing countries.

Coffee remains the best seller, while clothing is starting to get more recognition with designers such as Katharine Hamnett speaking on behalf of farmers and manufacturers to stop using pesticides in cotton and opposing unethical Chinese production as a human rights issue.

Australian ‘organic’ wool and leather without harsh dyes are also making their way to designers’ studio’s, as awareness grows amongst a younger consumer who looks beyond the aesthetic of a garment.

Harriet Lamb, executive director of the Fairtrade Foundation, said: “The British public showed overwhelming generosity towards the people affected by the tsunami. In the same way, when they learn about Fairtrade and the positive benefits for farmers in the developing world, the response is equally dramatic.

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Beads are the accessory of the moment. Big beads, that is. They are the essential finishing touch to spring’s boho looks. Whether you are opting for wooden beads, plastic – or whatever materials – the rule is the more eyecatching, the better.

Marni does a great selection of necklaces with giant beads mixed with flowers and trinkets. Prada has beautiful textured beads in muted blue tones and, if you feel like indulging, Hermes do a gorgeous selection of wooden beads on a lovely leather necklace. The trick to adornment is to make it personal. Embellish yourself with a little originality. However you do it, do it bold.

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