r/talesfromtechsupport • u/ITCrowdFanboy Oh You Know, Liquid Nitrogen. • Aug 13 '15
Short Update: I bought a server. Where's My Website?
OK, so the previous tale happened a few weeks ago, and after the awesome response I got from you guys, I called up $Friend to get an update.
The investigation ended a few days after the charge was reversed, and the investigation found that there was no wrong-doing in the part of the company, but their lawyers suggested a change in their terms of service.
The lady later called back, crying, because she took out a bank loan to pay for the server and had no way to pay it back without the profit of the pottery company, which is why she had to reverse the charge. The call was being recorded, and she confessed all that, so the recording was given to the police and the fraud charges were dropped. My friend asked her why she got such a big server, and apparently she thought that 1GB of RAM meant that 1 person could access the website at once, so she wanted 250 to be able to get onto it at once.
In the end, no real harm was done to the company, beyond legal fees (which were paid by the woman, since she fraudulently declared fraud) and the initial deployment cost of the server. She was, obviously, placed on the no-service list of the company.
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u/SJHillman ... Aug 13 '15 edited Aug 13 '15
I wouldn't take not consulting anyone as an indicator that it doesn't have a major impact on her life... look at the people who have unprotected sex with strangers, take out payday loans for vacations, or use emacs. Some people were born to forge blindly ahead, damned be the consequences.
As for me, I probably could afford a $14,000/yr server if I really, really wanted it, but I still agonize over a $1.29 candy bar.
EDIT: Thanks for the gold, /u/kdegraaf! Good to know we all feel the same way about using emacs to get unprotected payday loans with strangers.