Irrelevant tangent:
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Originally Posted by HarryT
How much is a few hours of a 17 year old kid's time "worth"? $10?
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Doesn't matter; the point is, it's worth *something*, and Amazon took that something away arbitrarily.
So they owe for those few hours of work, plus the extra hours he has to spend scrabbling to make up for it, plus something for the stress. (All those are a small-ish collection.)
Plus legal fees, and that's where it gets outrageous... because if he could just submit an invoice to Amazon and say, "you cost me 3 hours work, 2 hours make-up work, and 5 hours panicking from stress--pay up," he wouldn't need a lawyer. Since Amazon won't pay up without a court ruling, they get to pay for the cost of the proceedings, if it goes against them.
(Oh, and how much the teenager's time is worth--US Federal minimum wage is now $7.25/hour. In my state it's $8/hour. So, before the lawyers are involved, we'd be arguably looking at $50-150 worth of damages, with the high end of that being possible if you rate his work as skilled labor. And there's something very wrong with not being able to go to court & get a ruling for that amount.)