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Taking all legal free money is wise, or even just non-idiotic?

lazide 3y ago
If someone you know (a customer, in this case, with an existing relationship) wants to keep paying you, why go out of your way to say no? unless there is a specific reason you think they screwed up - like they say they want to cancel, but hit the wrong button or something. Or you know they’re dead and can’t cancel. Otherwise it just inconveniences them if they want it, since you cancelled it out from under them. Bad business, and probably rude unless there is a concrete reason you have to believe otherwise.
- wolverine876 3y ago
  > If someone you know (a customer, in this case, with an existing relationship) wants to keep paying you, why go out of your way to say no? Because I don't want to take people's money that I haven't earned. Why do I want to scam people? Blaming them doesn't make it less of a scam. > unless there is a concrete reason you have to believe otherwise Here we agree. You need a concrete reason. For example, if your service streams movies and they haven't streamed one in a year, that might be a concrete reason. Sometimes it's ambiguous, and then send them an email.
  - lazide 3y ago
    Good luck with that. Continuing to provide someone a service isn’t scamming them, even if they aren’t using it. Assuming you aren’t making it hard to cancel or anything. And doing all this work in the middle of a high inflation environment…. Do you have a death wish?
    - wolverine876 3y ago
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      - lazide 3y ago
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        dang 3y ago
        Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? You broke the site guidelines badly in this thread. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
      - randomdata 3y ago
        > You know they don't want the service or to pay for it; you are just taking advantage of their mistake. Get this: In this jurisdiction, as an employer I have to legally continue to pay for the services of labor for another two weeks (at minimum, more if the worker has been around for a while) after I no longer want the service. That's thousands of dollars, possibly even tens of thousands of dollars, for a service I don't want. Curiously, I have never yet met anyone who has politely declined or offered to pay it back. I suppose all workers are scammers by nature.
      - dang 3y ago
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- bongripper 3y ago
  Dude you're literally so retarded
  - dang 3y ago
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If someone you know (a customer, in this case, with an existing relationship) wants to keep paying you, why go out of your way to say no? unless there is a specific reason you think they screwed up - like they say they want to cancel, but hit the wrong button or something. Or you know they’re dead and can’t cancel. Otherwise it just inconveniences them if they want it, since you cancelled it out from under them. Bad business, and probably rude unless there is a concrete reason you have to believe otherwise.

wolverine876 3y ago
> If someone you know (a customer, in this case, with an existing relationship) wants to keep paying you, why go out of your way to say no? Because I don't want to take people's money that I haven't earned. Why do I want to scam people? Blaming them doesn't make it less of a scam. > unless there is a concrete reason you have to believe otherwise Here we agree. You need a concrete reason. For example, if your service streams movies and they haven't streamed one in a year, that might be a concrete reason. Sometimes it's ambiguous, and then send them an email.
- lazide 3y ago
  Good luck with that. Continuing to provide someone a service isn’t scamming them, even if they aren’t using it. Assuming you aren’t making it hard to cancel or anything. And doing all this work in the middle of a high inflation environment…. Do you have a death wish?
  - wolverine876 3y ago
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    - lazide 3y ago
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      - dang 3y ago
        Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? You broke the site guidelines badly in this thread. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
    - randomdata 3y ago
      > You know they don't want the service or to pay for it; you are just taking advantage of their mistake. Get this: In this jurisdiction, as an employer I have to legally continue to pay for the services of labor for another two weeks (at minimum, more if the worker has been around for a while) after I no longer want the service. That's thousands of dollars, possibly even tens of thousands of dollars, for a service I don't want. Curiously, I have never yet met anyone who has politely declined or offered to pay it back. I suppose all workers are scammers by nature.
    - dang 3y ago
      Please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
bongripper 3y ago
Dude you're literally so retarded
- dang 3y ago
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