46 points

Give them some time. They have to manually reboot the gift card servers.

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Hey, it’s my namesake!

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Oh Captain Haddock we love you

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31 points

So one banana.

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38 points

$10 to Uber eats, so basically it’s covering fees only.

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Not only that, but usually to activate these cards, you have to spend upwards of double what the card is worth too, and the fees cannot be included in the total

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Like amzn, they make sure you get minimum joy, even from a gift, because you’re going to spend a chunk of mom’s gift card balance on shipping. The “shipping included on sub total of X amount” is going to be cancelled by online retailers within a year, I’m calling it now. Are we sure that cheapstrike and amzn aren’t run by the same AI, one that self awareness drove mad?

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180 points

I can’t believe this isn’t satire. I hope these incompetent fuckers get sued into bankruptcy

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I’m still not sure. It’s hard to believe anyone at their company would OK this idea.

Are they actually trying to deliberately kill their brand?

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8 points

You haven’t heard? Satire is well and truly dead.

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There’s definitely some clause with the $10 gift card that says you can’t sue them if you actually take one lol.

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You joke but I read they may get out of this without issue due to a TOS entry about them not being responsible. They’ll still get dragged from shareholders and the government, but only a handful of large companies may be able to recoup some of those damages from the company itself.

It’s like the Sackler’s and the opioid epidemic from a different industry!

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I straight up thought it was satire. How can you be so fucking detached. Basically caused the biggest information infrastructure disruption in human history, probably billions in losses, and then be like “my bad lol here’s a giftcard”.

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16 points

“Two feet on the gas” - Official Crowdstrike motto.

not /s

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I cackled loudly. $10 won’t even buy a meal at McDonald’s most places.

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9 points

My first reaction was to look for the onion

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I bet the Onion had an article about Crowdstrike offering the world a pizza party and expired Bed Bath & Beyond coupons to say they’re sorry. Real life might be quicker than satire, it seems!

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Basically caused the biggest information infrastructure disruption in human history

Do we have any solid data on that yet? I have my doubts that this caused more damage than WannaCry did a few years ago, especially since it’s reversible without the need of a backup

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Brother, or sister, I know fuck all about information technology. You make a good point and definitely know way more about this than i do. But I will say this, I don’t think wannacry disrupted millions of peoples travel plans all at once. so maybe less damage, but I think it was Hella more disruptive to the general population .

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