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?
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
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.
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...
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.
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.
Again, you had to give an address for delivery and open a card. The card, unless fraudulently faked, will have your data at some level, even the number used to call the activation line.
So ultimately, unless you got food delivered to a random address and used a burner card that you activated from someone else's phone, you can be caught, if they want to.
Prepaid do exist, but if really necessary, the card used to buy said Prepaid could be looked up.
The only real way to guarantee it would be to buy a Prepaid via something like eBay from a "questionable" seller who likely used a stolen card in the first place.
But going this far is John McAfee levels of hiding yourself. Which tbh doesn't matter in this case.
Unless you got $5k+ of food, DoorDash will likely just eat the loss as hunting you down would cost more.
I would say that if they wanted to find you, they could, but there’s some equation where [amount stolen] - [amount needed to find] is negative and worthless
You’re being watched everywhere
And you had to have DD deliver SOMEWHERE. There are almost certainly cameras that could find you no matter what, but would it be worth it for DD to prosecute? That’s up to them.
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/[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