I would sue George Clooney for emotional distress

[samhexum]

I hope he has a good lawyer

A 23-year-old Sydney resident has been left “struggling” after Nespresso mistakenly took hundreds of dollars from her bank account due to an internal technical error.

Raha Bonakdar said she was randomly fleeced of $370 [USD] on Wednesday and only realized on Thursday when she opened her phone banking app.

“I was about to transfer some money somewhere and I opened my bank account and thought, ‘Wait a second, why am I missing $540 [$370 USD]?’,” Bonakdar told news.com.au.

On closer inspection, she saw that on Wednesday at 2:19 pm, the amount had been withdrawn by Nespresso.

“I was shocked. I couldn’t move,” she said, revealing she had not paid for any product or subscription from Nespresso for several months.

She contacted the company immediately and a staff member confirmed there had been an error and she would be refunded the money that had been mistakenly taken.

While the worker was apologetic, Bonakdar argued it was unfair given she would be hugely out of pocket for up to five business days.

She was eventually offered a $50 [$34 USD] store credit – compensation she said was far below what she was willing to accept.

“I just bought a new car, I just paid for braces … I have a good wage but it doesn’t matter. They took $540 [$370 USD] that I was meant to use to pay for my bills,” she said.

Bonakdar had no choice but to survive on her savings until the $370 landed back in her account.

“I have to go through my savings and pull out every single dollar that I have left to just pay for the bills on the weekend. I have rent due as well,” she said.

“Regardless of whether I have money saved here or there, I’m still struggling to pay bills that I was supposed to pay for tonight.”

She added that $34 – that could only be spent on coffee products – was “definitely not enough” for her being out of $370 due to an internal error.

“I feel like my account was violated. It wasn’t a cyber breach, if it was, maybe I would have been more easygoing because that would be an external factor, but that fact it was internal, that’s what’s p**sed me off,” she said.

Bonakdar spent 40 minutes on the phone with the supervisor on Friday, who she said doubled down on a $34 voucher being the best they could offer.

In an email she received from Gavin Hughes, the company’s Oceania head of customer care and services, on Thursday, it was confirmed $370 had been taken from her account because of a business “payment error”.

“We are getting in touch as we are aware that you have been affected. We would like to apologize for this anomaly. This is a matter we take very seriously, and your experience is our absolute priority,” part of the email, shared with news.com.au, read.

“We have moved quickly to resolve this internal payment error and are refunding $540 [$370 USD] payment taken from your account December 7, 2022.”

The email said the refund could be processed immediately, or take between three and five business days.

“We’d like to assure you that your personal data has not been put at risk, this was an internal issue in our closed and protected environment. We are also taking steps to safeguard against any recurrence of this error going forward,” the email stated.

Following inquiries from news.com.au, Nespresso responded to social media posts made by Bonakdar saying it would investigate her complaint.

A spokesperson for Nespresso said the company had notified the affected customers and apologized for the inconvenience.

“On December 7, we identified a payments issue which has meant some of our customers were incorrectly charged on their Nespresso subscription. We immediately took action and moved quickly to resolve the issue and refund any payments taken,” they told news.com.au.

“This was an internal issue in our closed and protected environment, we are taking steps to safeguard against any reoccurrence of this issue in the future. We have notified all customers who have been affected and apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.”

https://nypost.com/2022/12/09/woman-had-to-use-savings-account-after-nespresso-makes-unauthorized-charge/?dicbo=v2-848210b4e4a1e008c994b9357f5a4997https://nypost.com/2022/12/09/woman-had-to-use-savings-account-after-nespresso-makes-unauthorized-charge/?dicbo=v2-848210b4e4a1e008c994b9357f5a4997

[+ WilliamM]

Nespresso is not for  everyone.

Neither is The New York Post, actually

[CuriousByNature]

Mistakes happen.  As long as it is corrected in an expedient manner I think she should be happy with her $34 voucher.  Things like this should not turn into a windfall for the wronged party, particularly when no injury has occurred.  The fact that our society expects more is an illustration of our entitlement, in my opinion.

[samhexum]

7 minutes ago, CuriousByNature said:

Mistakes happen.  As long as it is corrected in an expedient manner I think she should be happy with her $34 voucher.  Things like this should not turn into a windfall for the wronged party, particularly when no injury has occurred.  The fact that our society expects more is an illustration of our entitlement, in my opinion.

You  mean Australian society.  You know how uncivilized those Aussies can be!

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[CuriousByNature]

1 minute ago, samhexum said:

You  mean Australian society.  You know how uncivilized those Aussies can be!

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I see it here in Canada all too often, I'm afraid.

[MscleLovr]

7 hours ago, samhexum said:

“I just bought a new car, I just paid for braces … I have a good wage

I strongly agree with @CuriousByNature. And to my mind, a sense of entitlement doesn’t depend on nationality.

What I cannot understand is why a woman in a well-paid job would have so little in savings (admittedly after buying ‘a new car’ and ‘braces’) that she’d worry about being out $370 for a few days.

Edited December 11, 2022 by MscleLovr

[samhexum]

1 hour ago, MscleLovr said:

I strongly agree with @CuriousByNature. And to my mind, a sense of entitlement doesn’t depend on nationality.

What I cannot understand is why a woman in a well-paid job would have so little in savings (admittedly after buying ‘a new car’ and ‘braces’) that she’d worry about being out $370 for a few days.

Really?!?!?  On a site begun to facilitate men spending large amounts of money to attractive (or at least, hung) men for sex, you can't figure out why?

She's obviously one of the many perverted Aussies who can't get enough sex, and she blew all her money blowing...

[mike carey]

On 12/11/2022 at 4:01 PM, samhexum said:

You  mean Australian society.  You know how uncivilized those Aussies can be!

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I'm taking this as a personal attack. The very idea! You Yankees all take such liberties! 😁