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I feel bad for the people who went through this Kafkaesque nightmare. > After months of back-and-forth, [...] I finally got my money. I didn't find any menti

by neilv 2y ago

I feel bad for the people who went through this Kafkaesque nightmare. > After months of back-and-forth, [...] I finally got my money. I didn't find any mention of a lawyer in the article. When you realize you're dealing with people who aren't operating in good faith, seriously consider consulting a lawyer. (A harder problem is realizing when people aren't operating in good faith. Especially if you're a Pollyanna, or decent folk dropped into the big city.) > consider using my referral link to open an account with Mercury I'm not going to click a kickback link on a piece like this, and I'm going to disregard the recommendation. If the goal is to warn people away from something, or to make a positive recommendation for something else, why add an obvious conflict of interest that didn't have to be there?

stainablesteel 2y ago
yeah this sounds like some kind of corporate fraud, i imagine they were blocking people out and moving their money around to cover their own books after something went wrong, there should be a payout
serial_dev 2y ago
It assumes you know which one was first, the chicken or the egg. One option is that the author found/got a referral deal with an alternative provider, so thought they could write this article complaining about a competitor. Or... They were so pissed with Chase due to this nightmare they had to go through, they looked for alternatives, found something, so they mentioned it in the post. Disregarding is fine as you don't know if they are honest, at the same time I wouldn't attribute evil intentions either. It's like when a native iOS developer says the best apps are truly native. It could be that they tell you that so that you hire them and their niche stays strong... or they really believe it and that's why they are iOS developers.
- jxnlco 2y ago
  after my money was withheld i messaged a mercury investor to see if i could get set up asap, they set me up so i could get paid and reroute all my payroll.
  - neilv 2y ago
    I think online is so saturated with disingenuous influencers, that we've gotten acclimated to a lot of conflict of interest behavior, so it doesn't jump out at as as a potential problem.
jxnlco 2y ago
i did it cause mercury helped me out a lot.

by neilv 2y ago

stainablesteel 2y ago

yeah this sounds like some kind of corporate fraud, i imagine they were blocking people out and moving their money around to cover their own books after something went wrong, there should be a payout

serial_dev 2y ago

It assumes you know which one was first, the chicken or the egg. One option is that the author found/got a referral deal with an alternative provider, so thought they could write this article complaining about a competitor. Or... They were so pissed with Chase due to this nightmare they had to go through, they looked for alternatives, found something, so they mentioned it in the post. Disregarding is fine as you don't know if they are honest, at the same time I wouldn't attribute evil intentions either. It's like when a native iOS developer says the best apps are truly native. It could be that they tell you that so that you hire them and their niche stays strong... or they really believe it and that's why they are iOS developers.

jxnlco 2y ago
after my money was withheld i messaged a mercury investor to see if i could get set up asap, they set me up so i could get paid and reroute all my payroll.
- neilv 2y ago
  I think online is so saturated with disingenuous influencers, that we've gotten acclimated to a lot of conflict of interest behavior, so it doesn't jump out at as as a potential problem.

jxnlco 2y ago

i did it cause mercury helped me out a lot.