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Hi, I'm the one who posted this article. I'm sorry I bothered someone by doing so, I can share, thought, why I did it. I've been working on e-commerce for 20 years already and I have experienced or seen very curious things related to fraud, geo localisation mistakes, and false claims too. As someone already mentioned in the comments, I thought this could actually be one of those cases.

Again, sorry if it bothered you.

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Nothing to be worried about. All who answered did so, because the article interested them. If the article is bogus, it is not your fault, but the fault of the publishers. And I am quite convinced the article isn't bogus, just something very strange is going on there.

It's a perfect article to comment on and consider. As you write many of us may work on e commerce projects now or at some point. Plus I would think many of us are problem solvers at heart.

Nope you didn't bother me at all. I just wish there was some more context of the post. So my apology if you were referring to me. All is good.

Would love to read stories on those fraud cases.

It would be much more helpful if the linked article had an explanation of why this is happening (ordering system IT error, delivery confusion, funny name swap, etc), to make it interesting and something that has a takeaway point.

Right now it's just left like an unresolved mystery, as if the gods are just causing this for their amusement. But clearly there's a reason why this is happening, and the reporter couldn't be troubled to find out why.

Follow the money. Why doesn't he contact the delivery restaurant and find out who paid? Also, if he never orders pizza, have the restaurants put him on a "no delivery" list.

Reading the article, it sounds that it is pay on delivery, not on order.

> “I have always refused the deliveries, so I have never paid for anything,” he said, adding that the harassment is not only annoying for him, but also for restaurants.

> “It costs them money and they have to throw the food away. On the day that ten deliveries showed up, I did the math: it cost €450,” Van Landeghem said.

This! I was bullied a lot in high school including multiple pizza orders to our house from the local independent pizzeria. We went up and had a chat and they put us on the no delivery list which considering we lived about 250m from them wasn't a huge deal for us, but saved them wasting food, time and money.

Every post has someone who doesn't like it. I think this post is interesting and relevant to HN. Thanks for posting it.

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