#241 Is Your AI Agent Quietly Increasing Chargebacks?
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Maria Sparagis discusses how AI support agents can inadvertently increase chargebacks for ecommerce businesses and offers solutions to mitigate this issue.
You added AI support agents to save money. It might be why your chargebacks are climbing. For ecommerce brands, AI support chatbots are an easy sell — fewer tickets, lower headcount, faster response times. But there's a failure mode most operators don't catch until their processor is already asking questions: when a customer hits a wall with your chatbot — a scripted refund denial, no escalation path, or a bot that loops instead of resolves — they don't push back. They call their bank. And that payment dispute lands on your chargeback ratio whether your team ever knew the support interaction failed. In this episode, Maria breaks down three specific ways AI customer support triggers chargebacks for ecommerce businesses, how to audit your own chatbot using the dispute data you already have, and the exact fixes you can make this week — without adding headcount. She also covers the metric every ecommerce operator tracks instead of the right one, and why your ticket deflection numbers are masking a much more expensive problem. 👉 Chargeback rate climbing since you launched AI support? We work with ecommerce businesses to identify dispute triggers, fix support flows, and build a…
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