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I am very curious to get a tad more context about the bank issue, if that's straightforward. Also, I have no idea if this will work, but: https://news.ycombina

• kingcharles 5y ago
  It's worth a try, thanks :) The bank (Square) issue is that I ordered something online, FedEx screwed up the delivery, it got returned to merchant, but merchant does not respond. I asked bank for chargeback, but they can't do one as the package got delivered (back to the merchant). Their support script only allows chargebacks when there is no delivery at all. They tried to get me to persuade FedEx to change the package status to nondelivered, but I refused, so they gave me the money back anyway and closed my account because it was easier than changing their immutable support script to allow for an edge case where a package was delivered, but not delivered to customer.
  • exikyut 5y ago
    Now I'm curious to find out how it works out. That comment was from a few years ago so the poster may be relatively distant to Tumblr nowadays and it might take a few additional people-hops (if it doesn't fall through) to get anywhere. I also wonder if old/deactivated non-public account data is held indefinitely (eg, private messages)... it probably is... Regarding Stripe, wow, I admittedly didn't quite read the name the first time through the paragraph, and was very surprised when I actually noticed ("...that Stripe?"). I guess it makes sense; they're similar in scale and incumbance to the big-N stuffy local banks now. A good reminder that class-leading web design isn't necessarily a function of broad-spectrum competence across the board, just a very well-paid design team lol I take it you can't reopen an account? :/ (Uh, if you'd even want to...)
    • kingcharles 5y ago
      Not Stripe - Square. I get the two mixed up also. Square is now Block, but their banking at least is still called Square. I sent an unsolicited email to the person above, and was polite about asking, but no reply yet :)
      • exikyut 5y ago
        Oooh. Humble thanks, I did indeed get the two confused. There was a recent post talking about how iPhones will be able to pretend they're payment terminals (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30259183 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30259183), with Stripe in the position of major partner, and Square as the unimpressed incumbent that had just had their core competency made redundant. That kind of backs out my point somewhat then heh. *Moves Stripe back to "probably ok"* The comment I linked incidentally happened to be (understandably) stuck in my head, but some bumbling around and experimentation with Algolia for a few minutes (trying keywords like "works at", "engineer" and "dev") also found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29700627 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29700627, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12924580 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12924580, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12928349 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12928349, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20701499 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20701499, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19815847 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19815847, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16971725 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16971725, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3587191 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3587191, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4728531 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4728531. It's quite possible none of these are relevant or useful; I also just thought of https://github.com/search?q=tumblr&type=users https://github.com/search?q=tumblr&type=users, which surfaces an interesting level of signal right on page 1, and this is not even mentioning LinkedIn, notwithstanding that site's caveat of "oh no" vs "likely most direct solution to problem" :) (Now to work through this small pile of unrelated interesting things that also mysteriously opened themselves over the past few minutes. Welp. All good :D)