Posted on 09/02/2020 8:06:59 PM PDT by cba123
Interesting story, apparently some people are using some tactic to trick Amazon into sending calls to them first.
I don't understand it all, and it links to a Bloomberg story, so I am not copying even Business Insider, just to be cautious, but feel free to link to the story.
I am sure lots of FReepers understand it.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Almost as fun as goats in trees.
I would need to see it happen a few times to really get the concept. Phones in trees. Better than Snakes on a plane, I guess.
“Better than Snakes on a plane”
Not as good as ants in the pants.
Go to Whole Foods and check the trees.
Snag the phone(s) you want and get them unlocked at a local shop.
Amazon tracks the gps on the phones of the couriers. The ones closest to the Whole Foods when an order comes in will get the job. Some couriers don’t want to.wait near the Whole Foods all day so they hang a phone with the courier app in a tree near the store, then when an order comes in the phone in the tree forwards the order to their real phone
They are trying to game the system.
It’s Christmas at Whole Foods! Go there, see abandoned phones, take phones, offer to return lost phones for reward or recycle ‘em and save the planet. ;)
That sounds like a great tree to pick free phones from.
How to cheat when they use location-based tracking to determine who to give the next job to.
So the Amazon driver that delivered your boxed up groceries may have also “boxed up” another driver?
hanging is racist.
Once an order is assigned, another driver comes up and syncs their phone with the one hanging in the tree so they can take the next order. Some groups use multiple phones to keep from getting discovered. It's a slight bug in Amazon's app that supports dual screen phones & tablets (or multi-app displays) that is the core of how this all works.
The real story is if you want a free cell phone, go look at the trees near Whole Foods.
My son in law was doing this for a while in Bellevue (Seattle area). He figured out that being close meant getting the best orders. He made decent money while he was doing it - like $500 a day.
How long does a phone hold a charge?
Truth Justice and the old American Way sucks man.
Cheat, because that’s where the moneys at.
I wonder if they’re using a noose to hang the phones in the trees?
Guess it depends who is ‘looking’
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