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The article is all over the olace and buried near the end is the book he got the 'solution' from.
A correct title would be 'how book' X' helped me recover funds'
But that wouldn't earn him mlre affiliate spam. Get bent dude.
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If you're in the UK, then you can use Topcashback [1] or Quidco [2]. Both of these links are affiliate links too, so if you start receiving cashback then I'll get £20. With both of these services, you get to collect the affiliate fee. Some things like insurance are huge and you can easily get £100 for them, most are much smaller. 1. https://www.topcashback.co.uk/ref/aembleton 2. https://www.quidco.com/raf/23003/
Hmmm, these meta affiliate links have confused my moral compass ;) Lucky I'm not in the UK :)
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Use your US CC, make charge-backs. Big surprise once for Wizz Air :-) In general: You have to find a weak spot. I have problems with a scam (ongoing) in an East European EU country and I have been trying to get the authorities for 6 months to act. Even hiring a lawyer has been extraordinary difficult. Most don't reply Emails, others charge exorbitant fees, our last lawyer is MIA so we are trying now with a lawyer tha…
> Use your US CC, make charge-backs I'm in the UK, and made my first ever charge back a couple of months back, after Ryanair refused to refund a flight that was cancelled due to corona virus (we'd booked it before the pandemic started). I'd paid with my CC (a UK card; not sure why it would be any different with a US CC?). I forget the exact sum, but it was something like £1,500. Ryanair completely took the piss - the…
I adopted a mantra of "remain professional", avoiding engaging with their emotional tantrum and escalating the situation, just sticking to the facts and explaining the situation to them and what needs to happen to reach a resolution.
It's hard, because people get emotional, and you have to force yourself to detach from them attacking the thing you have built and want to defend and instead become very objective, robotic in nature, but it works.
It's not for the light hearted but sometimes this is what it takes to get paid.
I like the article. It presents the way that I believe we should all behave with each other in a professional environment. Respect and Courtesy are important at all times (IMNSHO). Some folks seem to feel that being respectful is a sign of weakness, but cops are extremely respectful, as they explain to you why they will be writing a ticket for an eye-watering amount (at least, good cops are). Many moons ago, when the…
> Respect and Courtesy are important at all times I could not disagree more. Ethical and considerate _actions_ are important at all times. Many very dishonest people help themselves sleep at night by pretending that being polite excuses their actions. It does not. Actions have real life, often irreversible, effects on those around you. Being polite has few, if any, tangible effects.
I've found that it is entirely possible to be both polite, and quite firm.
Dishonesty is a big deal to me. I am incredibly honest and straightforward ("Blunt" is the word that has often been used). I worked many years, at a fairly deep level, for a Japanese corporation, where Honesty and Ethics were Principal currencies. In fact, I have been accused of being "disrespectful," when I have been entirely respectful, but unyielding. There are a lot of people that consider the definition of "respect" to read "Bends over and squeals for me."
I can deal with discourtesy, if it is honest discourtesy, but you won't get anything but honesty and courtesy from me (believe me, that has not always been the case, but I don't like to fight all the time, like I used to). These will, of course, be accompanied by very ethical behavior (which, sadly, does not mean that I'm a "doormat").
If you want to live your own life on different terms, then knock yourself out. We probably won't cross paths, much.
My summary of this article in terms of good and evil: - Kiss My Keto unsuccessfully tries to set up an affiliate program that doesn’t eat too much margin and is still equitable to the affiliates (I believe they are doing their best to be a force for good until proven otherwise) - Mr. Lynch gets involved and finds out the program he thought he was joining is actually not as it seems, so he reaches out to Kiss My Keto…
Maybe, as a company, it's a bad idea to rip people off for $88. Turns out that people who have to fight you for trivial amounts of money aren't motivated to either repair the relationship or improve your company. The only people motivated to make a big deal about it are people who can figure out an angle that makes it profitable for them.
Is there no difference between good and bad things? Aggressive marketing is annoying, not a moral failure. With some people, exploiting being a victim for personal benefit can be rationalized as worse than victimizing people. It's like a killer being angry that a relative of their victim writes books about the crime. "Where's my share?"
In terms of good and evil:
- Kiss My Keto set up an affiliate program. (morally neutral)
- Mr. Lynch joins that affiliate program. (morally neutral)
- Kiss My Keto has changed that affiliate program to exclude their primary product. (morally neutral)
- Kiss My Keto doesn't inform its affiliates of that change, or update the information on the website of that change. (morally bad)
- Kiss My Keto asks affiliates to share holiday promotion codes in order to "boost earnings," yet has a policy that refuses to pay referrals who use holiday promotion codes (morally bad)
- Kiss My Keto also offers promotion codes in pop-ups to people referred to its site, and if any of these promotion codes are used, they refuse to pay for the referral. They also do not mention this in any material they share with their affiliates (morally bad)
- Mr. Lynch notices that Kiss My Keto has effectively created an referral network that doesn't pay for referrals, and doesn't tell its affiliates that it doesn't pay for referrals. (morally neutral)
- Mr. Lynch spends weeks in an email exchange being ignored and argued with, until someone at Kiss My Keto notices that they are dealing with a loudmouth, updates their website terms, and starts paying for referrals. (morally neutral)
- Mr. Lynch blogs about it, and ties it in to a product that he's selling. (morally neutral)
What's not included:
- Mr. Lynch deceitfully fails to blog about the interaction from Kiss My Keto's perspective, completely fails to make an effort to preserve the image of Kiss My Keto in that blog, and viciously includes a reference to a different blog (that describes the approach he was taking in this dispute) rather than making up an original framework for dealing with disputes in general. (obviously destroying the world with his evil.)
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> Respect and Courtesy are important at all times I could not disagree more. Ethical and considerate _actions_ are important at all times. Many very dishonest people help themselves sleep at night by pretending that being polite excuses their actions. It does not. Actions have real life, often irreversible, effects on those around you. Being polite has few, if any, tangible effects.
This. One million times. Politeness is not a signal and generally a terrible proxy to figuring out someone's integrity. While most impolite people also aren't highly ethical in their actions, the reverse (politeness + unethical behavior) is extremely common.
In that view, is your view of politeness as a bad signal more aligned with obsequiousness or with civil assertiveness?
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Cancel culture is when you get canceled about having a different opinion, it has nothing to do with shady business practices.
What if you're a business with a different opinion about what constitutes shady business practices? edit: e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25322456
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This. One million times. Politeness is not a signal and generally a terrible proxy to figuring out someone's integrity. While most impolite people also aren't highly ethical in their actions, the reverse (politeness + unethical behavior) is extremely common.
It would be wise to separate out politeness, by which I interpret every comment here means patiently assertive, and obsequious, where one is a doormat and butler to all. In that view, is your view of politeness as a bad signal more aligned with obsequiousness or with civil assertiveness?
I see it all the time.
People get very, very upset, when they find out that I'm not the doormat they had me pegged to be.
It's fun, when that happens.