jonathanstark

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   by jonathanstark 15y ago

   Please try both and share your findings with the group.
2. 32.▲
   by jonathanstark 15y ago

   Jonathan here: Thank you so much for sharing your story – it really made my day. "Kindness that spreads uncontrollably" perfectly sums up my highest hopes for this experiment. Best, j
3. 33.▲
   by jonathanstark 15y ago

   Thanks for your feedback! Your suggestion is a good one and something that I've been considering. It is possible to reload one sbux card from another, so I was thinking about using one for deposit only and dribbling the balance into the pur
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   by jonathanstark 15y ago

   Jonathan here: I see what you're saying, and of course it is possible that some jerk is buying gift cards with the card. That said, it's worth pointing out that the tweet stream is not real time and it doesn't have every transaction. The ca
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   by jonathanstark 15y ago

   Jonathan here: The transaction info available on the Starbucks site and mobile app is pretty limited, but I can see that the transactions are listed as "In Store Purchase". For example: http://cl.ly/3H1j3g443X0y0O3j2M2L Unfortunately, the
6. 36.▲
   by jonathanstark 15y ago

   Jonathan here: The card was not hacked. Looks more like you're just trying to promote your link. Thanks though. Cheers! j
7. 37.▲
   by jonathanstark 15y ago

   Jonathan here: Draining the card to the penny is not weird. If there is $10 on the card and your purchase is $11.50, $10 will be removed from the card and you have to pay the remaining $1.50 some other way. Expected behavior :) j
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   by jonathanstark 15y ago

   Thanks! If you have a Twitter account PLMK your username so I can give you credit :)
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   by jonathanstark 15y ago

   Jonathan here: Yes, unfortunately I do get the rewards. I get a free coffee for every 15 purchased. I figured that the free coffees would accrue to the card itself and therefore every 16th person would get a free coffee. As it turns out, sb
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    by jonathanstark 15y ago

    Jonathan here: Fair point. My goal is to figure out the dynamics of social giving in this fashion and create a similar sustainable model around items that are less "luxury" than coffee. For example, I can imaging people paying for other peo
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    by jonathanstark 15y ago

    Jonathan here: I totally agree. The sbux site and card don't support this directly, but I think I have a way to achieve this manually that involves requesting a coffee before you can know how much is on the card. We'll see! Thanks, j
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    by jonathanstark 15y ago

    Jonathan here: I've been thinking about this quite a bit. One the one hand, last week some jerk saw a $50 balance and spent the whole thing in one shot. On the other hand, people need to know when there is money on the card if they are thin
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    by jonathanstark 16y ago

    Hi all - I'm the author of the original post being discussed here. I can see that most everyone on this thread disagrees with me, which is fine. I just wanted to let you know that because of being linked to on HN, there has been some though