[TomSwirly]

There are laws against this sort of thing.

In another country, like the one I now live in, this would be a job for law enforcement.

You'd just hand over your files to some branch of the government, and in a surprisingly short amount of time, you'd get some money, but also, the site would stop cheating people.

Except that this rarely happens here, because companies know that law enforcement cares about systematic scams.

They might try to cheat you once, to see if you're a sucker, but if you put up any fuss, they'll give you the money.

[noodlesUK]

What country is this, if you don’t mind my asking?

[jb1991]

It appears he lives in the Netherlands:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23862316

Based on the fact that I have also lived there, and looking at his comment history, I don’t think you can take this comment as being entirely accurate.

[damethos]

Unfortunately the law does not work that well in all countries. It might take years even for a small dispute and they know that in most cases and they take advantage of it. The important thing here, as you mentioned, is for the company to be in check by the law or else they will just take advantage of every situation, but of course. The law is mostly slow and never helpful unless you spend a lot of money in lawyers.