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you can't pay your drivers if you have no money...

• whalesalad 10y ago
  Get a local loan, "Hi, we have a very successful local business but we made a mistake with choosing a payments company that might end up killing us entirely. Here are our stats, here are the kind of transactions we're dealing with, etc... We need a loan of X to keep us operating for the next few months. what kind of terms can you give us?" Serbia might not be the kind of place where this is possible, but I could go to my local credit union in Ann Arbor and probably pull this off in less than an hour. Head home, get operations back up same-day, and proceed to bust ass on implementing a new provider on the backend.
  • pm90 10y ago
    Yeah, it may be difficult to get funds, but whining on facebook but taking no other action seems to be rather....careless. I do hope that their issue gets resolved but I also sincerely hope that if they get a chance, in the future, they would have some kind of contingency plan.
    • jpatokal 10y ago
      Why do you think they've done nothing except "whine on facebook" and what action, exactly, would you advise them to take? If they sue Braintree in the US, the legal costs will be insane (especially by Serbian standards) and it will virtually ensure they won't see a penny until years later.
  • markdown 10y ago
    Non-firstworld problems: * Getting a loan isn't easy. * Getting a credit card isn't easy. * Getting an overdraft facility isn't easy.
  • mdpopescu 10y ago
    This would get me laughed at in any Romanian bank. "You managed to lose a ton of money and now you want to lose our money too?"
    • cookiecaper 10y ago
      To be fair, it would get you laughed at in a lot of places in America too. If you have a great credit rating and a rapport with a good, locally-controlled institution, this might work. The parent seems confident it would work in his case, which is great, but it is definitely not always that easy out here.