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I've always wondered about the ethics of this approach. How would I feel if someone told me they're provide an awesome service, took my credit card number and t
by sbisker 15y ago
I've always wondered about the ethics of this approach. How would I feel if someone told me they're provide an awesome service, took my credit card number and then told me the whole thing was some sort of "customer development exercise"? Personally, I think I'd be a little miffed. Especially if I really needed that service, or was otherwise "counting on it." In the worst case, I might assume the whole thing was a scam to collect credit cards.
Has anyone done this before? If so, did you find that people were generally supportive, or ticked off?
- jdvolz 15y agoI think the idea is to get them to the point where you would take their credit card number, and instead say that you're developing the product and ask them if they want to leave their email address. That's how I've read these experiments in the past. Taking someone's credit card number without the intention of selling them something feels fraud-like.
- quicksilver03 15y agoEven if they don't take my credit card number, a service which only tells me on the second or third page that they will launch "soon" feels scammy to me. I'm annoyed rather than interested, at the thought of having spent time for something that's non-existing and thus worthless to me at the moment.