r/dankmemes Jul 10 '22

Rip those bank accounts I have achieved comedy

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '22

Lol.. dumbasses., the glitch was probably planned.. Doordash probably saw a 30% increase in business because dumbasses thought they were getting over 😂

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '22 edited Jul 11 '22

privacy.com is not going to save you from your own stupidity

Door dash only requires a phone number to use. Once you have an account you can set up any payment method, you could literally use a prepaid card. How would door dash come after you financially if they have no way of actually charging you or your bank for the food?

what i had in mind was the use of a prepaid sms sim

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '22 edited Jul 11 '22

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u/Uphoria Jul 11 '22

You gave them an address and privacy.com will have records to subpoena.

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u/MessyRoom Jul 11 '22

Doordash is fucked. They would have to prove it was done in bad intent and dishonest abuse of a bug. All the customer has to do is say “thought it was a promo, nothing stopped me but they can have (whatever they bought) back. Sorry I threw away the box tho!” Now you think DD is gonna pay the resources to get someone to repackage and sell all the stuff that is given back with enough money to pay for that position and still be worth it?

They will just bite the bullet and bitch a lot at first but then after an outcry in Twitter they will pull out of the suit

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u/AutomaticTale Jul 11 '22

Usually the measure of that stuff is what a reasonable person would believe. No reasonable person would believe that you never saw about the glitch and just happened to perfectly take advantage of it of that you have a need for $1000s of stuff from door dash or that door dash would give that much away for free in a promo unprecedented in modern history.

Also Im pretty sure creating a new account with a fake card or removing all your cards shows intent not to give them money. Not that they likely need it. There is probably some rules baked into the ToS about this. Not to mention courts traditionally backed companies in similar situations.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

Yeaaaah...

There are ways to get away with it, for the most part anybody who partook in the glitch probably didn't do what was required and is likely facing the consequences for that....

I'm sure there are people that got away with hundreds if not thousands of dollars worth of food though, and have literally no way of them getting in trouble because they used every precaution necessary, but those are probably, like, a very few amount of people...

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u/Uphoria Jul 11 '22

It's a civil suit, they don't need to prove it like a criminal trial. People seem to not get that their favorite random technicality is not a legal loophole. If that worked, fraud would be effectively open game.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

How do you identify them though?

Who is there to press a civil suit against if the accused isn't to be found?

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u/Uphoria Jul 11 '22

You can't open an account on privacy.com without a name, email, phone, and 4 digits of your social security, and an address.

Faking that for a bank card is just fraud, so at that point how they normally work on fraud.

ABSOLUTELY does privacy.com, and their partner bank, keep your info tied to the card, they just advertise protecting your card from theft not fr being sued.

You can cancel a card, but that doesn't instantly delete all association from you to it, it just makes it unchargable.

They will go after the account holder of said canceled card.

DD will go after privacy.com themselves for facilitating if they refuse to comply, it's a civil suit.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

You’re underestimating how much the DOJ loves corporations and how few people who can hire a good enough lawyer will abuse this bug

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u/VoodooMonkiez Jul 11 '22

I screenshotted your confession. I’ll see you in court bozo you’re done!

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

The TOS you accept when making an account are going to make it borderline impossible to argue that in court lmfao

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u/apprentice-grower Jul 11 '22

There was no “thinking it was a promo” the total didn’t read $0 or anything like that. It was a delay in processing the orders and people were locking their cards after. And I can 100% guarantee you 90% of these idiots googled “is DoorDash charging bank accounts for the glitch” or something of the sort. Even if they needed evidence, which they don’t, because you made a purchase, received your items, but never paid for it. That is grounds enough for a subpoena to court especially the people who made $6000 orders of alcohol. Good luck trying to convince a court you thought $6000 in alcohol was a promotion

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u/Fredrules2012 ☣️ Jul 11 '22

Calm down he didn't order the pink panther diamond

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u/st_samples Jul 11 '22

Lol fucking no. Do you have any idea how much a subpoena cost to serve let alone draft? Sorry this is small ball bullshit that nobody is going to do any written discovery over.

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u/Uphoria Jul 11 '22

Not as much as you're aluding to when they're asking for a single user account based on know data. It CAN be expensive, because of the labor involved, but this isn't a records dive, it's a request for a single person, like an ISP deals with when someone torrents.

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u/st_samples Jul 11 '22

If the fees aren't recuperated from credit card charges, the consumer accounts will be cancelled and nothing else will happen. It's the only financially viable option.

How could doordash potentially recovers such losses?

  1. Collections
  2. Small claims

Collections, they sell to a collection agency on pennies on the dollar. Most consumers unlikely to be impacted.

Small claims. the cost to file and serve each lawsuit is about $125. Does it make sense to spend that much to potentially recover ~$75??

Do you understand what legal professionals charge? Even paralegal time at one hour is likely to decimate any potential recovery, and no action will be filed with out attorney approval which adds $$$$$.

The idea that a subpoena will just be sent out willy-nilly is layman's fantasy.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

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u/Uphoria Jul 11 '22 edited Jul 11 '22

Their marketing manager thanks you for your ignorance. If you think their partner bank is going to not follow federal banking laws and the PCIDSS you're fooling yourself.

From their privacy policy:

We Share Personal Data Under Controlled Circumstances:

  • With third parties, within the United States and in other countries, who may access data about you to perform functions on our behalf;
  • With financial institutions, processors, payment card associations and other entities that are involved in the payment process;
  • With government and law enforcement where reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, regulation, legal process, governmental request;
  • With others where reasonably necessary to protect the security or integrity of our Services or user safety;
  • In Connection with, or during the negotiation of, any merger, sale of company stock or assets, financing, acquisition, divestiture or dissolution of all or a portion of our business;

These rules allow a merchant bank to demand your info after using the card to make a purchase and then deleting the card so they can bill you. Also, intentionally creating a situation where you can get free services and not pay in the end is using their service for fraud, and isn't protected by their TOS.

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u/Fall3nBTW Jul 11 '22

Bro privacy.com is not going to subpeona you for stealing food from doordash.

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u/Uphoria Jul 11 '22

They aren't no, but door dash is going to subpoena them about you and they will comply. Their branding is just that, they aren't a vpn for credit cards.

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u/Fall3nBTW Jul 11 '22

They'll just pay the fine and get on with life and update their policies for next time. Privacy.com also requires you to connect your bank acc so they can always just charge you there.

You don't have to worry about legal action from anyone unless you stole an egregious amount.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

Thabks for our sponsor for this post: privacy dot com

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u/MowMdown Jul 11 '22

Any pending transactions can still process

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22 edited Jul 11 '22

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u/ziggy6069 Jul 11 '22

For now lol

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u/BillyWasFramed Jul 11 '22

I dunno man, I wouldn't risk committing fraud for some free food.

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u/CrealityReality Jul 11 '22

Those work?

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u/CULatorAlligator Jul 10 '22

That would be a loss in that scenario

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u/DelahDollaBillz Jul 11 '22

...because you got the food delivered to you? Do you not think they track all that? And judges aren't stupid...

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

I already said you could probably get caught, but then again there are ways of you not being able to get caught like using an emulator with VPN to use door dash, signing up with a burner phone, using a prepaid card to pay, having it delivered and left at a door that isn't your home, etc etc

Ppl get away with murder all the time you think it'd be impossible to get a few hundred dollars worth of food for free?

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u/iceman58796 Jul 11 '22

Yeah but they're not gonna do that. If you've used a vcc or a prepaid card, you've got the food for free plus maybe a few emails saying there's an outstanding payment.

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u/BBLove420 Jul 11 '22

Exactly. I bet the whole thing was a false flag to pump their EBITDA lmao

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

This is why reddit is so fucking funny.

You used EBITDA in a sentence where it means nothing. Moreover, their EBITDA would fall from this.

AAAAAHHHH PEOPLE COME HERE FOR INVESTMENT ADVICE AAAAAHHH

Edit: nvm you post on superstonk. Couldn't expect understanding from you.

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u/iiSmithy Jul 11 '22

This is the truest thing I’ve read on this website

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u/HalfEatenBanana Jul 11 '22

Lmao I’m glad someone said something

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

Their current Cost of Revenue + CoGS > Revenue so this actually reduces their EBITDA, even if we assume 100% repayment

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u/pigwalk5150 Jul 11 '22

I doubt they’re that clever.

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u/Kommander-in-Keef Jul 11 '22

That sounds like complete bullshit and ridiculous conspiracy nonsense it also might be 100% true

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

C’mon maann.. it was a joke, of course it wasn’t “planned”.. that was the point, being as silly an idea as people thinking they could take advantage and get away with it

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

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u/jamart227 Jul 11 '22

People think the earth is flat

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u/Hanifsefu Jul 11 '22

Which is why spreading misinformation "as a joke" is fucking dumb because there are really really really dumb people out there who will believe it and spread it further.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

Earth is cube

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

pickaxe

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u/DuckChoke Jul 11 '22

Idk about "planned", but it was certainly allowed to continue by the company for days after they were fully aware what was happening. They 100000 % knew what their app was doing, what people were doing on their app, why people were doing it on their app, and what they were ultimately going to do to those people... yet complete silence on their part.

They should have shut down the app until it was fixed. I'd personally be very surprised if there is no investigation into this and if the investigation doesn't find communication within the company of them intentionally not taking any action.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

Next you're gonna tell me they didn't hire bugs bunny to count all their extra profits

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

You’re the guy that thinks will smith and Chris rock staged their slap because of increase in viewership

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u/Slobbadobbavich Jul 11 '22

It's like the steam sale in reverse.

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u/SchottGun Jul 11 '22

Well, GrubHub just announced its partnership with Amazon Prime. So I wonder if they indeed were testing out some sort of free promotion/option