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by NKosmatos 1610 days ago
Oh come on, it's not a scam and he's not stealing anything. It's clearly mentioned on the license and it's up to the users to go through it (like any other open-source plugin or software they use). At the end of the day the plugin creator was polite, understanding and returned money back even though he was not obliged to do so. It's a win-win situation as they clearly describe it, but the OP wasn't satisfied with the high (30%) percentage.
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The plugin was secretly taking 15x what it claimed to.

The ease with which a (substantial!) refund was offered makes me think it wasn't an isolated incident.

> the OP wasn't satisfied with the high (30%) percentage.

The OP was never informed of the high percentage!

How is hiding 2% in your wiki (instead of in LICENSE where it belongs), and then taking 30% instead of 2%, not a scam? If someone listed a price of $2 for a burrito and then charged you $30 at the register, you would not consider that OK.
They did consider it thousands of time, they just didn't supervise what their worker agreed to