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Re:Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit by silverquiet on Friday September 19, 2025 @10:07PM (#45309478)
I recently heard on a podcast where one of the guests recounted what his father used to say about the employees making cash-handling mistakes in the small store he owned. It was something like, "if it was merely incompetence, you'd think half of the errors would be in my favor."

It probably is a glitch in this case, but it's hard not to see the dark patterns once you've learned about them.

Re:Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit by trained6446 on Saturday September 20, 2025 @12:26AM (#45310368)
Incompetence, filtered by customers biased to complain when cheated, and ignore mistakes in their favour?
Re:Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit by ipaddr on Saturday September 20, 2025 @01:14AM (#45310593)
If you short charge a customer they will demand correct change if you overpay a customer won't complain. In the cases of customers giving back extra money it becomes neutral.

His father's theory didn't take into account this.