Flipping Out
Illustration by The Free Press
How a shopping app turned me into a maniac willing to trade in all my contacts for cash.
It started a few weeks ago. Texts from friends, and then acquaintances, with a coupon for $120 and a simple declaration: “Add me on Flip.”
I scoffed. “What is this?” I texted back. “Have you been hacked?”
Eventually I clicked and was taken to a site called Flip, where I read that it was “For the stories told over transactions.”
“For everyone who underst…
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