High-touch disburse largest balances

[chadwhitacre]

Reticketed from #1205.

We have 13 balances > $1000, which accounts for about 25% of our total escrow. Rather than including these folks in a MassPay, let's reach out to them individually and get those taken care of. Let's reserve the MassPay option for the long tail.

[chadwhitacre]

Subject: [] balance on Gratipay

Greetings, []!

My name is Chad Whitacre, founder of Gratipay (née Gittip), and I'm writing because you have a balance of $[] with us. Gratipay shut down a year ago, and I am now making a push to return everyone's money.

What is the best way to get you your funds? PayPal? Check? Let me know! :-)

[chadwhitacre]

Cleared OpenCompany through Liberapay (opencompany/www.opencompany.org#175).

[chadwhitacre]

I have sent two emails.

[chadwhitacre]

Alright, sent 10 more emails. 💦

[chadwhitacre]

First bite! 💃

PayPal instant transfer sent! 💸

[chadwhitacre]

Per #1205 (comment) let's mail the next 67 folks as well. 👍

[chadwhitacre]

Five more sent, including one check! 💃

[chadwhitacre]

It's working! 😍

$ ./genmasspay.py 
  settled:  15129.30 (14.4%)
remaining:  89661.31 (85.6%)
    total: 104790.61
$

[chadwhitacre]

Another: https://github.com/gratipay/logs/commit/9ea23efc612ce115d25168719e80947399382911.

$ ./genmasspay.py 
  settled:     9 ( 0.2%)  16,203.56 (15.5%)
remaining: 3,755 (99.8%)  88,587.05 (84.5%)
    total: 3,764         104,790.61
$

[chadwhitacre]

Five more in the top quartile.

[chadwhitacre]

I sent a second message to the remaining five, via Twitter for four of them, second email for the fifth (no Twitter).

[chadwhitacre]

I started looking at the next bucket, I paid out one that had a PayPal Donate button.

I've gotten SYN+ACK from four of the remaining top 5.

[chadwhitacre]

I've paid four low-hanging fruit out of the 67 in the second quartile.

[chadwhitacre]

Heard from the last of the top 13! And paid out another! Remaining:

• Transferwise blocking on bank account confirmation
• Donation blocking on paypal debit card Dispose of unclaimed balances #1205 (comment)
• Blocking on hearing back where to send it
• Blocking on hearing back where to send it

[chadwhitacre]

I've paid out all but one of the top 13!

[chadwhitacre]

Done!