• 1984@lemmy.today
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    3 hours ago

    Klarna is really pissing me off. I got a refund from a place, and they put that money into some kind of Klarna Wallet or whatever, by default, instead of in my bank account where the money originally came from.

    So I go to their stupid site, and select the option to refund to my bank account, and they are warning me this will take up to 7 days! For no other reason than they wanting my money in their account so im tied to their service.

    Stay the hell away from Klarna. Im doing that from now on.

    • SirQuack@feddit.nl
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      2 hours ago

      Stay the hell away from Klarna

      Definitely! Klarna is one of the few parties that won’t cooporate when a Dutch citizen gets government mandated debt settlement. All other debt agencies settle and freeze interests as the state takes control of the debtee’s finances but Klarna just stacks interests like there’s no tomorrow.

      The idea behind the scheme is to have the debtee get their personal affairs in order, while an agency (ngo-like) takes care and control of all finances. You get like 50 eur to spend each week but this is also for groceries and all other savings are either used to settle debts, pay rent and other subscriptions and most subscriptions are cancelled with contracts being voided left and right.

      It’s a very invasive, but very effective program. Klarna is, as a for-proft debt agency, not having any of it.

      • lime!@feddit.nu
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        30 minutes ago

        it’s insane that they don’t because sweden has basically the exact same program.

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      3 hours ago

      wtf, how is that legal? if someone is obligated to pay you some refund, how can they send it to some other private business instead?