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FEATURED · POLICY & TRUSTRefunds should return exactly what you paid. So we made FX movement our risk, not yours.

A refund that comes back lighter because a currency moved is a policy choice, not physics. The story of the one line in our Refund Policy we argued about longest, and the treasury design that makes it safe to promise.

SOSamuel Adetayo Olaoye · Founder & Chairman · 12 August 2026 · 9 min readRead the essay →
FROM THE ESSAY

“The customer already trusted us once, at checkout. The refund is where they find out whether they were right.”

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