So my cousin was here and saw a grocery receipt on the table and asked if I was using it and if he could take a picture of it, I was like what, why?

So, there is this app that pays you some cents for receipt pictures and supposedly it pays you if it finds items that have cashback… shit sounds sketchy as fuck, I saw that on their app they sell credit cards and you can invest in some crap, but what I really found disturbing is this thing about them paying you to send them all your receipts… what the fuck are they doing with that info lol

Crazy stuff, but I’m completely out of touch with cellphone things, is this crap normal??? I was quite shocked by it, and checking the company online, Méliuz, I just see stuff about it buying bitcoin.

My wife uses Fetch. Does a lot of this. She scans all our receipts but also receipts she finds. She’s gotten gift cards from it. I don’t trust it though.

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I wonder how it goes with AI-generated receipts.

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I’m picturing people dumpster diving just to find receipts to scan. I didn’t know this was a thing… hell, I always destroy my personal info on mail packages, gonna start destroying receipts as well.

Man. I never thought I should buy a shredder

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Good for compost but I wouldn’t compost receipts. Thermal paper is loaded with BPA.

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