“Dogfooding” refers to the practice of a company or organisation using its own products or services for testing purposes before making it available to general users. Rahman said on Twitter that he received cashback rewards of $45 for “dogfooding the Google Pay Remittance experience.” One of the Redditors said that he got six different cashback rewards of $100 for dogfooding the Google Pay Remittance experience. I just opened Google Pay and saw that I have $46 in 'rewards' that I got 'for dogfooding the Google Pay Remittance experience.' Uhhh, Google Pay seems to just be randomly giving users free money right now. As of the date of this post, no such case has been observed in India.Īlso Read: Google Pixel 7a press renders leaked, design revealed in full glory Google Pixel users in US receive cashback rewards due to Google’s mistake In a later tweet, he said that Google had fixed the problem by taking back the amounts that were accidentally given out. Mishaal Rahman, a journalist, also got $46 in cashback rewards, which he wrote about on Twitter. It has also been observed that only Pixel users are receiving the cashback rewards. Redditors have revealed that the search engine giant has been sending out varied amounts of money ranging from around $10 to $1,000 (~Rs 82,000).

Some users have claimed that Google has taken back the accidentally released amountsĪ Google Pay error accidentally released cashback rewards to some users in the US last week, according to several Redditors from the Google Pixel subreddit.A Google Pay error accidentally sent out cashback rewards to some Pixel users.

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