On Apr 24, 10:31 pm, Keith Wiley <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm still dismayed. Call me idealistic, > but since I obviously was in no way at fault, I'm just really hurt.
Without wishing to sound uncaring: get over it. It's simply a cost of doing business. Imagine you own a convenience store and one day you see a kid run out with a handful of candy. It happens. It's not the police's fault for failing to prevent it, even though they theoretically could by guarding your store 24 hours a day for you. That simply wouldn't be financially feasible, and neither would chasing after customers for fraudulent (or merely idiotic) chargebacks on small amounts. If you feel like you need to increase the price of your product in order to pass on the cost then do it. > I'm only going to participate in the Market if it is profitable or AT > THE LEAST break even. Charge backs represent a real threat that > selling small apps for small profits through the Market could actually > COST money, i.e., be a net loss to the developer, which is logically > ludicrous. No one would participate under such circumstances and the > Market would consequently die, at least in theory. There is no need for theoretical fears when we have two months of evidence already. If chargebacks were going to be a big problem for the Market then they would have been already. So far, I've heard about two. > Of course, that won't happen, we'll just put up with it and the system > will continue as is...and the banks and Google know it. Good for > them. > > Just to reiterate my main point: I didn't do anything wrong, thus my > bitter response toward Google, the credit card company, the bank, the > customer, WHOEVER. I don't care who. The point is, I'm ambiguously > totally innocent in the matter. Thus, fining me for this situation is > unfair and wrong. It's not a fine, and you're not being punished; it's merely recovering some of the cost of the administration of the chargeback. Banks and payment processors don't like chargebacks any more than you do and I'd be amazed if $3 covers the total administration cost that a chargeback causes. I expect that the bank and Google are taking a hit as well. Be annoyed at the customer (or whoever who stole their card details, if that's what happened). But in the end, it's $3 we're talking about, so don't be too annoyed. ;-) -- Jon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
