The initial analogy made me cringe, and to be honest, the rest of the post didn't change that impression too much.
Reading past the prose and paeans to loyalty, a couple points stick out to me:
"we discovered that the specific charges flagged as fraudulent were not fraudulent charges" "where fulfillment was lagging heavily during the transition which led to some dissatisfied customers who opted to dispute charges"
Fulfillment lagging heavily is a fancy of way of saying people paid for orders, never got what they ordered, and so assumed it was a fraud.
Despite understanding that our Stripe Atlas account was used across a number of businesses, and that the seemingly fraudulent/chargeback activity took place in a relatively short span of time through a single eCommerce store (that was no longer operational)
TBH, the actual percentages Stripe details in later emails would be alarming to me. 23% of charges disputed and 44% of volume are pretty red flags!
No kidding. This guy is so vague about his business. What does he actually make / sell? Socks?
Folks with 44% of volume in chargebacks should be shut down! I've found there are always excuses from the scammers, and the whole article is in the mode of I wanted to love stripe but they screwed me.
Reality = this guy is screwing his customers over big time!
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The initial analogy made me cringe, and to be honest, the rest of the post didn't change that impression too much. Reading past the prose and paeans to loyalty, a couple points stick out to me:
Fulfillment lagging heavily is a fancy of way of saying people paid for orders, never got what they ordered, and so assumed it was a fraud.
TBH, the actual percentages Stripe details in later emails would be alarming to me. 23% of charges disputed and 44% of volume are pretty red flags!
No kidding. This guy is so vague about his business. What does he actually make / sell? Socks?
Folks with 44% of volume in chargebacks should be shut down! I've found there are always excuses from the scammers, and the whole article is in the mode of I wanted to love stripe but they screwed me.
Reality = this guy is screwing his customers over big time!
As the author says, it pains me to write this.
I like to call this "Eddie Haskell Syndrome".
After some quick googling, it appears I'm not the only one to use this term.