A term or concept · 2010 · Platforms
The dark pattern in the loyalty card
Exploiting the sunk cost of an earned balance: expiry, devaluation, tier demotion, and the deliberate design of loss.
Everything the field calls manipulation, expressed in the vocabulary of retail. The expiry date on a points balance is a grief event with a date on it, and it is engineered to occur annually.
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