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Some sales teams are killing their company

If some founders or C-suite execs ever saw how their sales teams actually operate, they’d lose it.Most founders I’ve known in their early stages worked like crazy to keep the lights on, land customers, and make the company worth celebrating. Building anything from scratch takes pure grit. You fight for every client, every partnership, every inch of progress.But then you meet some sales teams…...

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @04:33PM (#43850352)
I have been working with a small team on a platform that allows luxury brokers to do due diligence on clients, ownership transfer and receive/issue payment all in one platform. We are pretty much merging the luxury retail market with banking.

Brokers (cars, planes, houses, boats, watches, etc) never have to worry about chargebacks, they get instant payment, free deposits and payment (compared to payment processors and marketplaces charging 2-10% per transaction).

We are currently onboarding luxury buyers, brokers, and brands you can check us out and apply to be part of the ecosystem. https://nezzapp.com

I did reach out to the bank. My issues is they didn't give me the option to opt into this. I should have a choice! Their rep said even the folks at the bank location can't uncheck the box that opts me out of it.

The reality is I won't dislike it if I knew about it beforehand but I didnt.

They went on to list a lengthy process for what I should do just so it doesn't happen in the future. Not ideal.

interesting! Where are you from?
I think this only work for expense management systems like mercury and brex?
that was my thinking exactly!

Payment processors shouldn't be able to charge through an expired card

My web hosting service renewed my subscription by charging my bank account through an expired debit card. Why do banks give payment processors such power? It’s ridiculous!My leverage has always been to leave expired cards on file when I find it difficult to cancel a subscription. It's crazy that they can get around it.

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Readonly vs Disabled made me realize I'm too dependent on my AI code editor

I develop software and systems using legacy programming languages—Fortran and PHP (no offense). Please don’t hit me up; I’m not looking for a job.I was building a form and needed to prevent users from entering a value for "copay." Simple enough, right?<input type="text" name="copay" id = "copay" class="form-control" value="<?= set_value('copay',$child['copay']);?>" disabled />It...

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great point. Banks operate on the fednow rail. that's one provided by the government. They are fix rates and very low
We provide a banking platform with card, insurance and payments (just like your regular everyday bank account), our payment is built on real time rails that most banks have access to. What people don't know is that almost all banks can do this but don't provide the service for everyone.

Real time rails allow up to $10M in payments for almost zero dollars but banks add their premiums.

Does that answer your question?

lol dude or dudette! you clicked on the bio - I never said you should. I'll educate you, they make more money from low-level people than luxury status people or people with more money in their bank accounts. The rich benefit from the payments the average make on these accounts.
this is true. makes you question why they do it for them and not for everybody
as they should. i find it boils down to - because they can. I'm not sure if this post may have repercussions but we'll see.
cause they make way way way more money on card swipes. but that's enough sharing for today
I saw this and i thought it was wild but trust me from the inside that is just pennies. I promise.

Ask HN: Why are banks charging so many fees for accounts and cards?

I'm trying to understand why banks still charge account fees and card fees, especially when they don't seem to make significant profits from them.I started a fintech company focused on banking for luxury deals and worked with banking partners, so I've seen a lot of the industry from the inside. Still, I can't wrap my head around this.Why are these fees still prevalent? Are they just a relic of...

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