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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 128 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The reason they want emails is because the phone calls are slowing the call center SLA to a crawl and tanking their metrics for the quarter. If this keeps up, the payment processor will push back next time and Christian authoritarians won't be able to get away with shenanigans like this again.

They probably have their customer support laid out as phone, email, and maybe chat. Phone is the most expensive support channel because it's 1 person to 1 problem and it's impossible to scale, so they can't roll out a bot or ignore the metrics for long. Keep up the pressure!

[–] tmyakal@infosec.pub 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Do we think these payment processors are running their own call centers? Seems more likely that they're contracting the work out, and those firms just aren't going to get their contracts renewed.

[–] Awkwardparticle@programming.dev 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I just tried Visa Canada and I got someone without any accent, so either they have their own or they have to run it out of Canada because of financial laws. I call the English line speaking French

[–] yourgodlucifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just because the call center is in the united states doesn't mean that the company did not contract the call center out.

I worked for 3 different call centers in the united states all of them were a 3rd party company and not the company I was providing customer service for.

That is the best part, we are disrupting the metrics that determine contracts between the call centers and the payment providers. If they have to renegotiate for whatever reason, it takes a lot of legal back and forth between parties. These are not boilerplate contracts and costs a lot of money.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Be sure to speak English if they transfer you to the French line

[–] elevenbones@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Did they have a Canadian accent, eh?

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I think call centers and answering services may be volume based pricing. I know at medical practices I've worked at, the answering services used charged by calls received. I don't know about at the scale of large companies like VISA.

[–] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 143 points 6 days ago (11 children)

Despite what religions say, this is what they actually do:

They attempt to control your life based on their fiction.

Every time. Every year. Every century. It never stops. This is what religion is about. Controlling everything and everyone. For the better? Nope. Definitely not.

[–] squozenode@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Would be nice if any religion ever had even a shred of proof. Imagine if a Catholic priest actually could do the Healing hands?

Nope. Just controlling dicks.

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[–] Goretantath@lemmy.world 48 points 6 days ago

Censorship is the fetish of the rich and powerfull.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 43 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Also kinda weird it was just these two platforms. Browsing through the Switch 2 store the other day, I saw a few porn games on there, too. One of which was literally about the "step sister stuck in the washing machine" meme.

  1. It's Nintendo FFS; it's wild they even let such games on their store regardless of outside influence.

  2. Incest.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sorting by new on the eshop shows a surprising number of slop games.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 6 days ago

Quite a contrast to the Nintendo Seal of Quality that is largely responsible for saving the video games industry after the crash in '82.

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

omg so much shovelware and cheapest porn

i expected that the Nintendo eShop would be more curated, but this is no better than other stores - no, it's even worse, because parents fully have the same expectation that i had before seeing that, and many will just hand a nintendo device over to the kid without checking.

and 70$ for cyberpunk 2077 - it's a new console, not a new game ffs.

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[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago

It's Nintendo FF

That's the point; the washing machine and the step brother are a metaphor for Nintendo, the step sister for their customers.

Incest

No, no, it's metaphorical criticism.

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is there hope for the US? They are looking more and more like Saudi Arabia. What's next, killing journalists and banning the opposition?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 12 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Americans have alternatives in the form of Amex and Discover card apparently. Do we also have any alternative that works EU-wide at least? And where does one even get a card that's not Mastercard or Visa, if that's all that the local banks and my neobanks offer?

[–] MrPozor@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We Europeans should soon be able to pay with Wero online. And we can hope that the digital Euro and GNU Taler will establish themselves in the future.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

That's great news for online, but I'd also like a card for offline and that still means either Mastercard or Visa :(

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

AFAIK, Wero has planned payment per NFC, but it might take a while. I wish some Austrian banks would have already joined in on Wero, but alas...

Wero already can transfer money between people btw, sending to phone numbers - if the other side already has Wero, it's direct, if not, they can supply a bank account for deposit

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[–] febra@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wero is a fairly new technology on the market. They advertise it as being made in Europe. A bunch of major banks in Germany, France, and Belgium seem to support it. I haven't used it yet though.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

It's a cool thing and will be great for online payments but I don't think there's a solution for in person payments yet, still need one of the big 2 for that

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[–] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So hey, what are the actual alternatives to Visa and Mastercard, especially if you live in the US?

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Amex and discover for credit card. PayPal (has also done similar), crypto if accepted and debit.

[–] Goretantath@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Paypal is not a valid alternative to this situation.

[–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Are they a religious org? I thought they were explicitly feminist, or is that just the CEO?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 25 points 6 days ago

Religious anti-choice feminists who protect the children by cheering for a show glorifying child sexual abuse, but banning video games that depict sex between consenting adults.

Yeaaaah...

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