Who wants to share their refunder blacklist?

How many refunds identifies a person as a "serial" refunder for your list?

kay

My refund request form has it's own privacy policy allowing me to share the data

Michael, Yes, but not retroactively for a transaction that's been completed.

The "Do not deliver" list that you pointed to is for vacant houses. That's a safety issue, not a reference to individuals. As far as credit bureaus, they're very tightly regulated, and depend on a lot more objective information than the claim that someone refunded on a purchase where a refund was offered.


Paul

Yip you guys I smell trouble.

I"ve actually read about this guy on a blog complaining that he was banned from buying
at Clickbank because he requested too many refunds.

Can you believe that? The very same clickbank that we all love and hate.

Do"nt ask me his name or where I saw it. It was many, many moons ago.

This is the truth and nothing but the truth - your honor.

I rest my case.

Trust me dude some people refund just to refund.

I am not talking 1-2 refunds here I am talking about people who we found bought 8 different products and refunded them all within hours of purchasing. Why keep buying from me if my products suck? Because I refund too easily. It's time to get tough. Even retailers blacklist serial refunders

There is dissatisfaction and then there is outright theft, there is a CLEAR difference.

The credit reporting system and the bureaus have been challenged in the courts many times throughout history, and the way they currently function was shaped out of that. Since there is no existing precedent for a "serial refunder database" it would be ripe for legal challenge.

Different entities have different allowances when it comes to checking your credit report and depending on what their function is, they may have only limited access to information within your credit files.

Certain rights can be waived with permission, others cannot. That makes this particular application one that would fall into the "iffy" category.

The score that came out of that box is somehow computed, and an irate consumer could challenge the methodology behind how it was developed. Additionally, since that score will be used to make a judgment about your worthiness to obtain a service, there would also be some ground for a legal challenge.

It's not that a system couldn't ever be developed, it is that anyone attempting to develop one without a legal team ready to defend it could find themselves without any assets, very, very quickly.

That and the fact that people are getting a lot more savvy about how to do it. One person finds a "loophole" to get free products. They tell their friends, who tell their friends, and... well you get the picture.

A lot of people out there think that everything on the internet is, or should be free of charge. Look at the troubles the music industry is having as a prime example.

The only way around it I see is to not offer refunds at all. Not a good idea from a customer service perspective admittedly, but what else is there.

In DLGuard, I ban them by Paypal address. You can also ban by ip. You might have hundreds of email addresses, by you're not going to have hundreds of Paypal accounts. I know you can change your paypal email but how many times is someone going to do that without raising any flags with Paypal?

Is there a service that has a central, universal list that stops certain IPs from purchasing? There really oughta be... could make someone a lot of cash while stopping serial refunders.