Re:The toxic side of free – how I lost the love for my side ...
by umziehennachbar on Thursday September 17, 2015 @09:26PM
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what does that mean? Please describe
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Re:The toxic side of free – how I lost the love for my side ...
by vfdfv on Friday September 18, 2015 @12:11AM
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Give your users something like "first two weeks free", which will annoy the fraudsters who want the charge to go through immediately.
Re:The toxic side of free – how I lost the love for my side ...
by umziehennachbar on Friday September 18, 2015 @08:53AM
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but then doesn't that require you to hold onto the credit card details to process two weeks later. One of the attractive features of stripe is that you don't store cc details on your system but rather they get passed on directly to Stripe. if you implement a delay, you have to hold the credit card to charge later
Re:The toxic side of free – how I lost the love for my side ...
by artursapek on Friday September 18, 2015 @10:33AM
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No, you tokenize the card through Stripe immediately and then charge the token 2 weeks later. You don't have to hold on to the card details.
Re:The toxic side of free – how I lost the love for my side ...
by umziehennachbar on Friday September 18, 2015 @01:51PM
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so after you charge the card two weeks later, the transaction still gets completed unless you've somehow figured out during the two weeks how to determine whether \the attempt was fraudulent. I don't think this strategy will work because it will depend on the fraudsters knowing that the payment won't be processed for two weeks and then deciding it's not worth it. Are they going to read the TOS?
Re:The toxic side of free – how I lost the love for my side ...
by artursapek on Saturday September 19, 2015 @04:57PM
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If the UI makes it clear that they aren't charged for two weeks, they likely won't bother waiting and move on to target a different service.
Re:The toxic side of free – how I lost the love for my side ...
by umziehennachbar on Sunday September 20, 2015 @12:20PM
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they also might see an advantage in the delay that you don't see and try it out.