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Re: Surprise, pay $1000

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post #5

Blacksmith are wrong, but also they’re a YC company- they may be young founders that haven’t run a SaaS before and genuinely don’t know how to handle free trials.

well being a YC company im sure they know all the different trial and funneling strategies, they chose to hack it the sketchy way

Re: Surprise, pay $1000

#232
post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was one thing to use the line to call an ISP, which can be a company of its own, and another to use their Internet access on that call.

I once had a payment fail and the ISP cancelled my internet, my voip, my mobile and my wifes mobile too. Ok how do you expect me to arrange payment then lmao.

... through snail mails?

Re: Surprise, pay $1000

#233

Can someone explain this statements: > While amusingly as of June 8 Blacksmith’s terms implied that their right to bill you is contingent on you providing payment information, a SaaS app certainly could have terms that obligate users to pay for unexpected overage when on a free trial. > And let’s be clear: our agents run a lot of CI jobs, so we did expect to hit the limits of the free plan. We used the service and go…

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Re: Surprise, pay $1000

#234
post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i always set my overdraft limit to zero. i never want to use that by accident.

In the US this always seems to be called "overdraft protection", as in "do you want overdraft protection on your account?" I can never remember if overdraft protection means "we won't let your account overdraft", or "we will let your account overdraft" It is an incredibly confusing name to me I could look up the answer now, but I know I will just forget it again. I must have looked it up and then forgotten at least 1…

Overdraft protection means that the bank will cover any overdrafts that you make, but then they will charge you a fee on top of it.
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