A retailer attempted to bill StellaService for its mystery shopping test costs.
Jordy Leiser · Jordy Leiser, StellaService // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Mar 3, 2014 · at 16:28
Jordy Leiser, CEO of StellaService, shares an anecdote about a retailer's reaction to StellaService's independent operational testing process.
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“Today I was actually out with a retailer who, Literally tried to give me a bill for all the products that we've ordered and returned and all the phone calls and emails that we have placed to that company.”
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