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How does anything think setting up a system where you can get billed for clicking a link is a good idea? Along with no sensible monthly limit on the credit card
by VS1999 3y ago
How does anything think setting up a system where you can get billed for clicking a link is a good idea? Along with no sensible monthly limit on the credit card. The whole setup is beyond ridiculous, and it's hard to believe this is how "devs having no purchase authority stories usually start".
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 3y agoBilling by active users is quite common.
- maccard 3y agoI work in a small company and we use a few services that bill for active users, and sync with g suite. It reduces the overhead of admin for me significantly as it means I know we're only paying for people who use the service that month. > Along with no sensible monthly limit on the credit card. A £1000 limit doesn't stop you from generating a £10000 invoice. It just means you need to go higher with your tail between your legs to pay the bill.
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- ultrasaurus 3y agoA $10,000 invoice also means that procurement gets involved on the buyer side and sales on the seller side. Notion doesn't want 1 month of credit card spend tricked out of someone without purchasing authority, they want a site-wide deployment on an annual contract. The invoice is just a tool to ferret out who has authority to have the discussion; nobody expects it'll get paid as presented -- it's just the opening bid. Procurement's opening bid might be a chargeback and a org-wide ban on Notion -- and then you do sales dance.
- maccard 3y agoAfter the fact. That doesn't change thr E fact that a card with a $500 limit can generate a $10k invoice, which you need to go to your manager to tell them about.
- Ekaros 3y agoAren't this sort of dark patterns exactly what are expected from growth hacking and getting numbers look good? Whole sub-set of companies are incentivised to use these tactics...