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Why should they?
Because he gets a lot of free coffee rebates.
as a result of SB getting a lot more coffee sales.
Jonathan's Card
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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?
I'll be willing to put another $100 on the card on behalf of @Socialize's SDK Speed Challenge ( http://go.GetSocialize.com/SDK-Challenge ) if someone can come up with a way to track who's hacking it. Any ideas?
I wonder what data you could get from reading the actual barcode? Would the CSC be in there?
Edit: I just checked with an online barcode reader and this isnt the case. It resolves to 6061006913522430
Re: Jonathan's Card
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
is there a way to figure out what store the purchases are coming from?
Someone is DEFINITELY messing with it -- nobody buys exactly $45 in Starbucks: http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanscard/status/10035604975584460...
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You can't transfer funds onto another card if you do not own the card / have the CSC code.
Aha, you are right. I will edit that. Any ideas?
I wonder if Jonathan is around and is able to look up the transaction history on the starbucks website, and if that shows any information on where the money is spent/moved?
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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…
As a demonstration of the possible, using an image is in the category of Minimum Viable Product, the more sophisticated product would of necessity be an APP that hooked into the existing API and would only show a valid payment code if the Conditions Of Use were met.
This could be a web-app or it could be a native one.
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#116> Plus, it’s actually kinda fun to see those rewards stars drop into my in-app coffee cup. Well, Jonathan may get the Rewards so it is not completely altruistic. A real-time map of where transactions have been made ala http://twittervision.com might be interesting if this card goes viral https://www.starbucks.com/card/rewards
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…
A fair way to distribute them would be send them to those that chose to donate to the fund?
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#117OK I'm going to go nuclear to determine if this is some automated script or a manual hack: @Socialize just put $300 (!!!) on the card (remember... this is to promote the SDK Speed Challenge... so maybe click the link so I can claim some kind of ROI! http://go.GetSocialize.com/SDK-Challenge)
I figure if it's a script, the $300 will disappear instantly. But if it's manual, it's unlikely that someone could manually xfer that at a Starbucks counter w/o getting questioned.
Confirmations (max was $100 at a time):
http://drod.io/0G391o170o1e1V0Y400H http://drod.io/1t362M3B1a0t421I1Q0b http://drod.io/2O1R052m0g0q1g1P1x1V
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$100 spent on coffee for the homeless maybe? Just to take an optimistic view on the data.
You could be right, since something similar did take place as can be confirmed in one of the posts below (a large purchase for the homeless). But certainly we can agree that $15, $30, and $100 being drained in minutes to the exact penny must be cause for concern. Edit: draining to $0.00 is OK, as jonathan explains below.
Jonathan here:
Draining the card to the penny is not weird. If there is $10 on the card and your purchase is $11.50, $10 will be removed from the card and you have to pay the remaining $1.50 some other way.
Expected behavior :) j
Re: Jonathan's Card
#119OK I'm going to go nuclear to determine if this is some automated script or a manual hack: @Socialize just put $300 (!!!) on the card (remember... this is to promote the SDK Speed Challenge... so maybe click the link so I can claim some kind of ROI! http://go.GetSocialize.com/SDK-Challenge ) I figure if it's a script, the $300 will disappear instantly. But if it's manual, it's unlikely that someone could manually xfe…
Jonathan here:
The card was not hacked. Looks more like you're just trying to promote your link. Thanks though.
Cheers! j
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