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@Socialize just loaded $100 on the card: http://twitter.com/#!/Socialize/status/100347389134643200 Here's the conf: http://drod.io/2R3o0I2a3R3n3S2L1J2N
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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?
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/10036286052…
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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?
I'm kind of playing devil's advocate here and kind of not: How can you justify spending $n to buy coffee for someone with a smartphone instead of donating $n to someone with fewer resources and greater needs?
But do I really need to explain why that is undesirable, or why most people in the world don't do this?
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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?
I think someone could have bought a SBux card with it. Looks like it has happened at least a few times now all within less than a minute or two of the balance being there. An employee or someone camping a store, perhaps... Is it possible to use the number to buy a card off their website online?
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Jonathan here: Yes, unfortunately I do get the rewards. I get a free coffee for every 15 purchased. I figured that the free coffees would accrue to the card itself and therefore every 16th person would get a free coffee. As it turns out, sbux mails free coffee coupons to me: http://yfrog.com/keup3hxj I'm not sure how to redistribute them fairly, but I was thinking that I could at least pass them out at my local store…
If you're willing to throw the dice a bit, and you wouldn't consider this a tainting factor (no sarcasm), contact Starbucks. There's a distinct possibility they may work with you. Depending on how you judge the risk, you may want to do this anyhow, lest they simply shut the card down entirely in the near future. There is of course the risk that contacting them may cause that result sooner, but... in the long term you…
I'm kind of playing devil's advocate here and kind of not: How can you justify spending $n to buy coffee for someone with a smartphone instead of donating $n to someone with fewer resources and greater needs?
Taking that logic to its natural end - I should be living a meager existence, eating and buying only what is necessary for my own continued survival, and donating any surplus to people who don't even have subsistence level living standards (and there are a lot of said people). But do I really need to explain why that is undesirable, or why most people in the world don't do this?