Paze Patch 😡

I swear we can never just have a good thing. Part of the problem is that the internet makes entirely too much noise!

GTA VI pre-orders opened tonight, and I was going to use my CSR to get a $100 PlayStation gift card on NewEgg (w/ $12 off due to their own internal sale), and lean on the 10x reward earnings by using Paze as a payment method until I saw this…

This is partially because people don’t know how to keep their mouths shut. I swear every other post here was about someone posting how they bought an industrial sized amount of gift cards for their otherwise normal everyday life, and they just HAAAD to post it, haaad to tell everyone, and haaad to share it online. Left and right everyone doing the same thing.

I get it that people are excited when finding these little loopholes, but damn this forum, this community, needs to be a bit more discerning about sharing information like this. The banks and stuff monitor these chat rooms and use their own internal metrics and change plans based off what we’re saying and doing.

We’re essentially put expiration dates on our own precious hacks when we broadcast them on repeat on forums like this Reddit and the like. Scrolling and scrolling past endless posts about people simply sharing how they also did the same thing. It’s like practically standing outside the bank’s corporate headquarters with a megaphone 📣 yelling how you’re taking advantage of the loopholes the bank unintentionally left open. Of course, they’re going to monitor it and patch the leaks where they need.

We are cannibalizing ourselves by being TOO open about the hacks and loopholes. This isn’t a 1 person job. It’s a community attitude that needs to shift. If a new hack or loophole is discovered you can mention something, but if you clearly see a ton of posts about people saying the same thing then just zip your lip! None of us care that YOU also took advantage of the loophole. All it really does is provide fodder for the banks to decide “yea, we gotta change course immediately and close that up”.

This Paze thing is just like the 7/11 pick-up order minimum via DoorDash thing from a few months ago. Everyone reporting how they they’re able to get away with spending the credit without a minimum then BOOM. Too much internet noise and the $25min spend hit, and everyone started complaining. That’s what we get!

I get it, this is a community forum, and we want to share and talk shop here, but keep certain things on the low. We are chastising ourselves by talking TOO much about the things that are benefiting us. If you want a good thing to last you don’t need to talk about it so much. Not everything you do in life needs to be documented, shared, and released just enjoy in the peace of the silence. An occasional post here and there about different scenarios may help, but enough with everyone simply doing a loophole and racing to Reddit to share they did it too just to feel included. Seriously enough.