They've owed me money (just a few $) for several years now, in my Amazon Seller account.
And they've promised to pay me, something like 20 odd times. With a specific date each time.
Which is never paid.
And ever time I ask what happened, the customer service person says they'll look into it, and never get back to me.
Most recently, they've sent an email saying they're closing my account due to lack of activity. No word on what'll happen to the funds, my expectation is they'll just steal the money for themselves.
"Lack of activity"... yeah, no kidding.. People tend not to use a service when the other party is obviously full of shit and repeatedly lies. :(
As for "AWS never forgets", sure. That goes both ways.
How much would a launch pad that will be used four times normally cost for what they're planning to launch? Without knowing that I can't say if they overpaid 10x, 2x, got it exactly right or got an amazing bargain.
In 1965, the Vertical Assembly Building, which was at that time the largest enclosed volume in the world, cost $117M (on a $23.5M original construction contract). That would be about a billion dollars in 2020, but it was completed in 3 years and was used to stack 13 Saturn Vs. It was later used for the 100+ Shuttle missions as well, but there were additional costs to modify the building for this purpose. The VAB is still planned for use for future missions.
I picked the VAB because it's current dollar cost was roughly a billion dollars.
Total cost for constructing Launch Complex 39, which includes the VAB and the crawler-transporter launchers was estimated 1t $500M in 1962 for 2 pads. A total of 153 launches have occurred from LC-39. This number is greater than 4.
