Whomever is responsible for this should be blacklisted from receiving funding in the future. This is a really scummy move, and the person behind it should be publicly humiliated so that they understand the error of their ways.
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Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
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Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
#42Everyone is assuming that the founders sold the company data to Fly Maids, a brand-new company nobody has ever heard of before. It's also possible one of the founders just spun up the new service themselves and copied over all of the customer records. If so, they may want to prepare to be sued by their previous investors. It's one thing to fail after giving it the good ol' college try, but it's another entirely to st…
As part of winding down they could have sold off their data to an interested party, not different from a merger, and they further could have hired some of the old team.
If someone just copied the db and then sold or gave it on the sly, investors of former unaware, then, yes, problematic. But if it was a transaction approved by the principals of the former, unfortunately, there aren't stipulations about commutability of customer data, are there?
Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
#43What is the full URL of the link in the email you received? You must save your login information in your browser, otherwise I assume you would have questioned how you logged into the site at all.
It could be a phishing scheme that attacked your saved login information then placed that on a dummy site in hopes that you may provide even more data.
EDIT: They could have sold / transferred user data... but I don't know how they would automatically authenticate you without using some previously stored data that you, maybe unknowingly, gave them access to.
Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
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Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
#45Everyone is assuming that the founders sold the company data to Fly Maids, a brand-new company nobody has ever heard of before. It's also possible one of the founders just spun up the new service themselves and copied over all of the customer records. If so, they may want to prepare to be sued by their previous investors. It's one thing to fail after giving it the good ol' college try, but it's another entirely to st…
Well, according to their Privacy Policy you can just shoot them an e-mail:
> You may contact us as follows: support@flymaids.com.com
Oh wait....
[Bonus points for saying they are incorporated in Delaware who has no record of a business by that name.]
*Edit- See below, I searched the company name on the Delaware website two different ways and they certainly do not have an active registration or even a name reservation.
Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
#46Looking like they sold their customer data over to fly maids or whoever was behind them. Surprised they were able to actually transfer the CC info. When I was at a company that was selling off assets, the most we could do was give them customer email addresses. I have serious doubts about the legality of this.
This appears to be very plausible.
Googling "Fly Maids, Inc" shows their terms and privacy pages w/last modified dates of 2013 and 2014 respectively.
Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
#47Everyone is assuming that the founders sold the company data to Fly Maids, a brand-new company nobody has ever heard of before. It's also possible one of the founders just spun up the new service themselves and copied over all of the customer records. If so, they may want to prepare to be sued by their previous investors. It's one thing to fail after giving it the good ol' college try, but it's another entirely to st…
Well, according to their Privacy Policy you can just shoot them an e-mail: > You may contact us as follows: support@flymaids.com.com Oh wait.... [Bonus points for saying they are incorporated in Delaware who has no record of a business by that name.] *Edit- See below, I searched the company name on the Delaware website two different ways and they certainly do not have an active registration or even a name reservation…
Every startup is incorporated in Delaware, not always as the name they call themselves.
Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
#48as someone mentioned in the blog comment, Fly Maids site is a complete copy (with redesigned homepage) of another cleaning service http://www.homeaglow.com/
@johnsalzarulo out of curiosity, try if your login works on homeaglow.com
f.e.: both logos are served from the same S3 bucket: https://s3q1w2e3.s3.amazonaws.com/brands/logos/fly_maids.png https://s3q1w2e3.s3.amazonaws.com/brands/logos/homeaglow.png
Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
#49Oh that's not shady at all. Assuming all this is legal (I doubt it, but hypothetically) how is this a good marketing tactic? Having all this info already stored comes off as way more creepy than convenient as evidenced by the author of the article. And yeah, I can't see this being legal in a thousand years.
> Having all this info already stored comes off as way more creepy than convenient as evidenced by the author of the article.
If you're used to thinking about this from our side of things, sure. For Random Person, they might think, "gee, this is neat! And they've already got my card number and everything!"
Re: Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
#50They may still be compliant and storing your credit card responsibly, I would assume they used Stripe or similar and they're only sending the last 4 digits back over standard http. If they're allowing you to add a new card, then there's an issue.
Yep, exactly right.