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Re: Jonathan's Card

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Post by startupfounder »

JonathanStanton wrote: post #75
jonathanstark wrote: post #44

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Jonathan here: I've been thinking about this quite a bit. One the one hand, last week some jerk saw a $50 balance and spent the whole thing in one shot. On the other hand, people need to know when there is money on the card if they are thinking about walking down to a sbux to get a coffee. I might try the "there's more than $10 on the card right now". I've also experimented with delaying the reloaded messages, and do…

Out of curiosity, every 15 coffees people buy, does Starbucks send you a coupon for a free drink in the mail?

Looks like it: http://yfrog.com/kizp5xqj

Re: Jonathan's Card

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Post by thinkcomp »

michaelschade wrote: post #80
olefoo wrote: post #70

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What about requiring interaction from purchaser. Require a photo of the purchase. It would add a level of social obligation. You could go further and require a tweet explaining the purchase. You could even add a little homily about good manners and not being greedy to the explanatory text. I think you are doing a very interesting experiment with new financial entities, and I'm curious to see where this leads.

The homily sounds like a good idea; that's been shown to actually deter some in the past. To the other points: how would you go about mandating a photo or any other form of interaction from the purchaser? Jonathan has his card picture posted on the website–Starbucks simply accepts that photo as payment, there's no authorization process in the middle where Jonathan could selectively let some use it while disallowing o…

https://www.facecash.com

Re: Jonathan's Card

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Post by yoshyosh »

startupfounder wrote: post #35
div wrote: post #31

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The same way you justify spending $n on any luxury product you don't really need.

just loaded $50 on the card, bought 10+ coffees for tech caffeine addicts, got a sweet tweet because I am looking for a tech co-founder for my funded cleantech startup. thinking outside of the box for recruiting... just saying. Oh, and if anyone is interested in joining wa.tt email me, james@wa.tt

this is an interesting concept. Retweet people, who added money to the card, with an advertisement or announcement of their choice. Only issue I see is people loading the card and just spending it on themselves.

Maybe they have to tweet you the advertisement, and then you can retweet, so you get more exposure in their twitter stream as well.

Re: Jonathan's Card

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Post by _285ng »

pangram wrote: post #4

Whenever I go through a toll bridge, I frequently pay the toll of the person behind me. I've sometimes wondered if it propagates backward at all. For the Starbucks card, I would love to live in a society where this could work. Unfortunately it's one of those things where one anonymous bad egg will ruin (i.e., drain the account) for everyone else. Some way to restrict it to a community with less anonymity would help (…

My wife works at a Starbucks with a drive-thru and says that the chain reaction frequently persists until the line is emptied; the longest such chain was around twenty cars.

Re: Jonathan's Card

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Post by funthree »

Potentially abusive use shown in these tweets.

http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanscard/status/10034749918897766...

http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanscard/status/10034674284272844...

http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanscard/status/10034195955777536...

Edit: Any ideas?

Edit: It just happened again...

http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanscard/status/10035604975584460...

Edit: More...

http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanscard/status/10036286052539596...

http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanscard/status/10036486417377689...

http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanscard/status/10036536246547660...

Re: Jonathan's Card

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Post by funthree »

danielodio wrote: post #85

@Socialize just loaded $100 on the card: http://twitter.com/#!/Socialize/status/100347389134643200 Here's the conf: http://drod.io/2R3o0I2a3R3n3S2L1J2N

You deserve upvotes (and I upvoted you) but someone just nabbed that entire $100 off the card within a few moments of it being there...

Re: Jonathan's Card

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Post by dmn001 »

danielodio wrote: post #85

@Socialize just loaded $100 on the card: http://twitter.com/#!/Socialize/status/100347389134643200 Here's the conf: http://drod.io/2R3o0I2a3R3n3S2L1J2N

It looks like someone has figured out how to empty the card, in 2 minutes: https://twitter.com/#!/jonathanscard/status/1003474991889776...

Re: Jonathan's Card

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Post by danielodio »

dmn001 wrote: post #89
danielodio wrote: post #85

@Socialize just loaded $100 on the card: http://twitter.com/#!/Socialize/status/100347389134643200 Here's the conf: http://drod.io/2R3o0I2a3R3n3S2L1J2N

It looks like someone has figured out how to empty the card, in 2 minutes: https://twitter.com/#!/jonathanscard/status/1003474991889776...

I heard that! Looks like Jonathan's social experiment is clashing w/ eBay's "people are good" philosophy... either that or there are a LOT of thirsty people all at the same time.

Regardless, I'm glad we tried it; anyone have any theories of how it's being hacked?

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