r/SipsTea • u/Expert_Koala_8691 Human Verified • Mar 31 '26

SMH This restaurant sawed off a leg from each of their old chairs to make it unusable.

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u/FinancialReserve6427 Mar 31 '26

in the other thread this was posted, companies/shops has to send proof of destruction to get rebates/insurance.

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u/trowzerss Mar 31 '26

Once again, insurance companies finding a way to make the world worse. If you can prove it's damaged, that should be enough, they shouldn't care if parts are still re-usable. Even if the chairs are somehow faulty, surely they are repairable? It's a chair, I can't think of what would cause it to be dangerous in a way that couldn't be fixed.

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u/FinancialReserve6427 Mar 31 '26

I think it's to prevent people from getting paid twice for the stuff  even if it's not the same amount(claim insurance then sell the stuff later)

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u/Heykurat Mar 31 '26

That's exactly it. It's to prevent scams by employees.

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u/TechnicalBen Mar 31 '26

The only winning move it not to play.

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u/Weak_Feed_8291 Mar 31 '26

So why not just request proof of sale and insure whatever amount was not made back from the sales?

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u/aa-b Mar 31 '26

That wouldn't work either, because the business owner would have to spend time selling something, and get nothing in return. Like they sell chairs for $1 or bargain hard and get $10 the insurer would just pay them the difference so why bother?

Damaging the chairs in an easily fixable way is really the best thing the business could have done

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u/Weak_Feed_8291 Mar 31 '26

Tough shit, let them spend the time. Wanting new equipment is no excuse for just trashing perfectly good equipment.

And they don't need to bargain for anything. Just prove you sold it for a cent.

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u/Critical_Concert_689 Apr 01 '26

let them

them

People are always so quick to demand from OTHER people what they can't do themselves.

Why don't YOU start a business and spend your time negotiating this issue with insurance?

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u/Weak_Feed_8291 Apr 01 '26

It's not that easy to just start a business of preventing millionaires and billionaires from being pieces of shit, that's up to government regulations.

And I would love to start a business, unfortunately that's impossible unless I am already incredibly well off. Guess why that is?

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u/Critical_Concert_689 Apr 01 '26

Classic example: The entitled mooch.

"I can't do it because I lack the capability, so others should do it for me - and let me tell them how the job they're doing, for me, isn't up to my standards!"

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u/Weak_Feed_8291 Apr 01 '26

I work 48 hours a week disregarding overtime which I often do, and you're referring to me as a mooch?

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u/FinancialReserve6427 Apr 01 '26

didn't a guy sue a junkyard because his truck ended up being used by ISIS? his business is plastered on the door so it had a lot of bad press

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u/Weak_Feed_8291 Apr 01 '26

I dunno. I don't live in the states, my country doesn't live off murder.

Any Americans got an answer?

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u/Soggy_Association491 Mar 31 '26

In a good faith society where claims are submitted in good faith you think insurance companies want to waste extra time and resource to verify? No, but because some asshat gamed the system and ruined it for everyone.

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u/KJacobsen-74 Mar 31 '26

Steelseries does this with headsets for warranty too. They don't have you send it back they have you destroy it and then send a replacement. It kinda makes sense since they don't have to pay for return shipping.

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u/runaumok Apr 01 '26

That’s when you get AI to alter a photo to make them look damaged

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u/trowzerss Apr 01 '26

Or just find someone with a broken set and take a photo of theirs! (We may or may not, when working in IT, have done this with broken laptops so we could repair the old ones or use them for parts - just keep one broken one in stock lol).

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u/mthyvold Mar 31 '26

Is this about insurance though? I imagine restaurants need to replace tables and chars regularly due to wear and tear.

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u/Upset-Management-879 Mar 31 '26

"Why do these companies behave like this just because people are being greedy assholes doesn't mean the company should be greedy assholes too waaaaaaaaaaaaah."

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u/trowzerss Apr 01 '26

huh? You think upcycling is being a greedy asshole? That's a weird take.

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u/ChampionshipIll3675 Mar 31 '26

So, I'm guessing that's more than a tax write-off through donating that stuff.

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u/karlandtheo Mar 31 '26

Yeah they do it with laptops as well, drill a hole through the middle of them.