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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? Because I don't wan

> 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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    - 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

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