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The Second Number

Every other Thursday: one number from an account that was running that week, what it actually meant, and what I did about it.

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The number. Pulled from a live D2C account, with the working shown.

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The second number. What the platform reported next to what the bank did, and the gap.

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What I did. The decision it led to, including the ones that did not work.

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