ISP refund cards expire before customers can use them
Telecommunications providers issue prepaid debit cards for refunds instead of direct credits, with expiration dates that don't account for delivery delays. When customers attempt to resolve this, they face bot-only support and repeated rerouting with no escalation path. The result is that refunds are effectively confiscated through process design.
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