If you wanted to get a customer’s home address and name to do a Nexus lookup asking them for their name and their home address could net you anything
But requiring a small charge on a credit card gives you At least the address on record with a bank for whoever the cardholder is and whatever their legal name is.
I’m not buying it. Your explanation doesn’t defend the $11.99 “product” and you can do an Auth on a credit card and get that same info without doing a Settle which actually takes money from the person. At worst, you could say its a refundable deposit, but its not that either. This is simply a cash grab charging for something that was included for free before.
I’m not defending the product. I’m trying to figure out why a 50-cent max tour fee makes any fucking sense.
If you do auth on a credit card without settling they could give you anybody’s credit card. You could have kids filling it out, this is an online service. But that’s small charge showing up on your card bill means somebody’s going to see it.
They’re making sure that you at least give basic information that’s valid in case you are stealing things we’re hiding out the apartment to rape the next tour. There’s no one there to watch you It’s a self-guided tour.
Without a realtor there to watch you, They need some kind of protection or the insurance would be unreal.
Did i say anywhere that this is good or ok? you all seem to be reading in between some lines that aren’t there and echoing off each others baseless accusations.
Nothing about your original comment reads as anything but defending that practice. Everything you said is factual, and it all sounds like defense. I appreciate that you laid out all the information that you did, but it reads like you’re saying “just playing devil’s advocate” when you’re just trying to spin a narrative that this is ok when that isn’t reality.
Those sound like “cost of doing business” as a landlord/management agent.
It’s a self-tour system they’re gathering information on the customers
Why are they charging customers then?
If you wanted to get a customer’s home address and name to do a Nexus lookup asking them for their name and their home address could net you anything
But requiring a small charge on a credit card gives you At least the address on record with a bank for whoever the cardholder is and whatever their legal name is.
I’m not buying it. Your explanation doesn’t defend the $11.99 “product” and you can do an Auth on a credit card and get that same info without doing a Settle which actually takes money from the person. At worst, you could say its a refundable deposit, but its not that either. This is simply a cash grab charging for something that was included for free before.
I’m not defending the product. I’m trying to figure out why a 50-cent max tour fee makes any fucking sense.
If you do auth on a credit card without settling they could give you anybody’s credit card. You could have kids filling it out, this is an online service. But that’s small charge showing up on your card bill means somebody’s going to see it.
They’re making sure that you at least give basic information that’s valid in case you are stealing things we’re hiding out the apartment to rape the next tour. There’s no one there to watch you It’s a self-guided tour.
Without a realtor there to watch you, They need some kind of protection or the insurance would be unreal.
You keep saying this. Is that better? Like what makes any of what they are doing ok?
Did i say anywhere that this is good or ok? you all seem to be reading in between some lines that aren’t there and echoing off each others baseless accusations.
Nothing about your original comment reads as anything but defending that practice. Everything you said is factual, and it all sounds like defense. I appreciate that you laid out all the information that you did, but it reads like you’re saying “just playing devil’s advocate” when you’re just trying to spin a narrative that this is ok when that isn’t reality.
for appreciating it, you certainly have downvoted every comment I made here.
You are free express these bootlicker opinions, we are free to respond to them.