Re:Reverse-engineering the Starbucks ordering API
by gmemstr on Thursday July 13, 2017 @01:07PM
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Here's a little story about how my gold card was disabled;
I was ordering coffee and my balance wasn't quite sufficient. I reloaded it via PayPal, but the balance didn't update so I tried again (it did error out). The app crashed, I reopened it and found it had added both transactions to my account. Open dispute on PayPal for just one of the transactions, got a refund but my card was completely locked out - $0 balance, couldn't reload it (the dispute was after I tried contacting support). So now I don't go to Starbucks.
I was ordering coffee and my balance wasn't quite sufficient. I reloaded it via PayPal, but the balance didn't update so I tried again (it did error out). The app crashed, I reopened it and found it had added both transactions to my account. Open dispute on PayPal for just one of the transactions, got a refund but my card was completely locked out - $0 balance, couldn't reload it (the dispute was after I tried contacting support). So now I don't go to Starbucks.