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Comment by karimatiyeh | Hacker News Reader

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Fair point. That's why we make our business model extremely clear. We're out there to help users claim the money they're owed and keep 25% in the process. We're not out there to sell user data.

Also, you can set up a secondary account and auto-forward emails relatively quickly to a forwarding address linked to Paribus. On Gmail:

1- Go to filters and start creating a new filter: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/filters 2- In the from field, type: amazon.com OR bestbuy.com OR staples.com OR macys.com etc. with all the retailers for which you want to track receipts 3- Click "create a filter with this search" 4- Click "Forward it to" and add your forwarding address.

You should be all set after that (although you will have to change your filter if you want to add the new retailers as we add more)

Hope this helps. We'll add to the FAQ :)

>Also, you can set up a secondary account and auto-forward emails relatively quickly to a forwarding address linked to Paribus.

Oh, this is interesting, and should get around most of the privacy concerns. One question: how do you get the money back from the retailer? I had assumed that Paribus sent an email from the account, but that won't actually work if my email is zck@example.com and I give you access to zck-shopping@example.com. If you email Amazon from zck-shopping@example.com, would they refund zck@example.com? Or do you send me an email saying something like "Amazon dropped prices on $PRODUCT_X, contact them here<link> to get a refund"?

Hah ;) I love that you caught on on this quickly. Shoot me an email and I can go into more detail on how we do this. We handle all the communication on your behalf and have a couple of tricks up our sleeves.

Cool, I'd love to chat. Unfortunately, the "email" field in HN profiles is private, and you don't have an "about" filled out.

My email is zkanfer@gmail.com.

Maybe a way to start by simply forwarding emails you want the system to process to a special email address. Kinda like how TripIt works -- I'm not even sure they ask for access to your email box until you've used the service by manually forwarding confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com for a bit.

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