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A ‘troll' who's grand master plan to annoy Twitch streamers was to donate vast sums of money to them, only to have that money refunded a month later, has had his plan derailed because Paypal refused the charge back. He sure showed those streamers.
Over the past month or so, streamers of various creeds, nationalities and games have been finding themselves with large donations of several thousand dollars at a time, totalling upwards of $50,000 (£35,000), from one particular individual. This was obviously exciting for a lot of them, especially smaller streamers without large followings – but it was all intended as a ruse.
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Rip Riley would not approve
In the above video showing the donations coming in live as the various channels streamed, you can see the big reaction from many of the gamers, who are simply blown away by the size of the donations. For some that's real, life-changing money they've just earned.
But in the case of this troll, who claims that sort of money was a drop in the bucket any way, they were hoping to pull the rug out from under all of those who they had donated to. However Paypal stepped in and would not authorise the chargeback on his account, so the donations will stick (thanks Eteknix).
Everyone who received money from this individual will get to keep it.
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KitGuru Says: No real life lessons to learn here, but it's nice to see someone with clear, long-term intention to be an ass having their plan foiled by a payment provider's policy.
What type of low lifes are doing this anyway seriously send gift money the user is happy and cliam for a refund after seriously what has the world come to
According to his Twitter page, he only charged back “sodapoppin” and didn’t do it to anyone else. So, who knows? It seems like he’s fuckin’ loaded anyway, lol.
He has been trying according to his twitter account (if that is actually him)
but sodapoppin said it wasn’t pending on paypal and it was legit.. so, it can still be charged back?
Come to? Humans have always been like that.
Because he sounds like a reputable guy…
the ‘best/worst’ part of the ridiculousness.. if memory serves, a chargeback occurance also slaps the person with a $10-20 (or more) fee.. So not only would the people he donated to lose that money that they might have already spent… but also have to pay out a fee ontop of it all. If it had gone through.
The Romans would have had a field day with this sort of thing.
I feel like you’re making the point that Romans didn’t have PayPal.
If you are, that means you’re an idiot and didn’t understand my point.
You are very much mistaken. Does that make you the idiot?
No, it means your comment incinuated sarcasm.
And don’t get offended, or anything. If I was wrong about the sarcasm, it means you weren’t an idiot.
The only thing that was inferred is that Romans (certain Emperors in particular) would have enjoyed trolling the peasantry a great deal.
If anything, the idea that I would insinuate that your point was invalid due to fact that “Romans didn’t have PayPal” is idiotic.
Who’s offended? We’ve confirmed I’m not the idiot.
actually you can only charge back something after the payment posts, after it’s done “pending.” if you try to do it before hand, your bank will tell you to wait until it posts.
no such fee. amex use to do it just to look good for their card holders. but not anymore.
“Money they earned” lol
Playing games isn’t work people….
There are also people that stream development of games / mods on twitch. Programming is legitimate work. Granted I think these people are all gamers and not devs.