|
I bought something on a website last week, put my address as the billing address to go with my card, my parents' address as the delivery address.
Because the billing address and delivery address were different and it was the first time I had used them they phoned me up and asked me a couple of quick questions about the billing address (they were looking at it on google maps I believe) to check that I wasn't trying to use a stolen card.
That's a good idea I thought.
Only time anyone has cared what addresses I use though.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
|
|
|
|
|
This is something else than sending a copy of your ID card on the interweb...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
|
|
|
|
|
chriselst wrote: That's a good idea I thought.
Not that good, what's to prevent the potential thief from doing the same (looking at google maps).
Never had to do anything like this, but then I don't buy that much stuff online.
Tom
|
|
|
|
|
I don't think it was designed to fool the professional criminal, just a small company getting a human to do a little extra checking.
Good idea I thought, and still do.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
|
|
|
|
|
If nothing else, it shows they are making an effort to reduce card crime - and that could mean that their insurance is lower, or they don't suffer any losses if the card does turn out to be cloned.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
|
|
|
|
|
I recently read something about changes to EU VAT rules for ecommerce that were, in the opinion of the writer, going to massively elephant up the shopping experience starting next year. I'm guessing this is just the start of the deluge from someone who got his new system on a month early. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
|
|
|
|
|
Found the blog post[^] I saw the other day. Limited to digital goods; but looks completely elephanted up...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
|
|
|
|
|
Saw some people complaining about, and completely misunderstanding, this last week.
IIRC you now have to charge VAT at the rate of the country where the consumer is rather than where the producer is.
It is part of the question as to which country online transactions take place in, the sort of thing that allows Amazon to avoid tax be claiming that they are only a delivery service in every country apart from one with the most generous tax rates which is where they claim to actually do all their selling.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
|
|
|
|
|
It never happened me while buying online, but when tried to register with freelancer site I had to to the same procedure. The funny thing was that they revealed it step-by-step, so after doing an ID identification, they asked for an electricity bill too...I asked myself what they will do with a hebrew bill addressed to my wife? Why I can't be real if I have no electricity bill?
I never completed the registration...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
|
|
|
|
|
My bank called me once, just minutes after I made an online purchased to confirm the purchase.
That was weird.
I'd rather be phishing!
|
|
|
|
|
My CC company has done that a couple of times. I approve of this.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
|
|
|
|
|
That is actually good thing, but it depends on the bank. I usually get such call after I do something outside of usual pattern. At least it there is a chance that if my card gets stolen and used before I notice, I still have a chance to not lose (much) money.
--
"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
|
|
|
|
|
What annoys me about that is that they refuse to provide any information to prove who they are - but expect me to prove who I am. And they rang me...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
|
|
|
|
|
Sounds like an anti-Amazon government sponsored bull-sheet, I was redaing something about it some time ago (in an Italian free-press newspaper, so I gave it the attention it deserved - next to 0, on the left side).
Don't worry, your southern neighbors will soon do something similar.
ADD: I would add, you have Carrefour and Auchan, two elephants of physical shop commerce (in Italy they practically own any supermarket or Commercial Centre). They could be "gently pushing" to restrict e-commerce...
|
|
|
|
|
Is the website served under HTTPS? For example the company website I manage in terms of web development sells electrical courses online and I've served it under HTTPS - https://www.electriciancourses4u.co.uk
We've never heard of a policy like that and our courses go up to a few grand per person!
If the HTTPS is there then I guess it seems legitimate, maybe it's like you said a new policy that's really strict in France? I would be careful though. If it happened to me personally I would refuse and try and purchase the gifts from a different website.
|
|
|
|
|
When my wife lived and studied in France she couldn't get anything whatsoever done without showing a valid electricity or phone bill, because they had a valid address on them. It seems to be the only way in France to know for sure the actual address of someone.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
(√-sh*t) 2
|
|
|
|
|
It happened to me on a German site named DLGamer. I didn't even want to purchase physical goods there. All I wanted was a bunch of Steam keys to games. They asked me for a scan of my ID. I immediately wrote back to cancel my order and will never be buying with them again.
|
|
|
|
|
Rage wrote: I needed to send a copy of my ID card (both sides) as well as an electricity bill (for instance) , at best per snail mail or fax, as well as a valid fixed line phone number, to confirm I am real and that the can deliver to the address I had put in the order form
This is where my response would consist simply of a screenshot of the same item on Amazon's site, with the "1-Click Purchase" button highlighted.
|
|
|
|
|
Very efficient process and secure too. 
Must've been created by one gov't or another.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yeah, you posting about it here clearly shows that... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
-----
The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
-----
I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
|
|
|
|
|
I invoke rule 3 then
"stop"
»»» <small>Loading Signature</small> «««
· · · <small>Please Wait</small> · · ·
![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif)
|
|
|
|
|
You made me think of this oldie, you did:
A guy blows a stop sign in Philly and gets caught by a policeman.
Cop: "License and registration please."
Driver: "What for?"
Cop: "You didn't come to a complete stop at the stop sign."
Driver: "I slowed down, and no one was coming."
Cop: "You still didn't come to a complete stop. License and registration, please."
Driver: "What's the difference?"
Cop: "The difference is, you have to come to a complete stop. License and registration, PLEASE!"
Driver: "If you can show me the difference between slow down and stop I'll give you my license and registration."
Cop: "Okay, exit your vehicle sir."
At this point, the cop takes out his Night Stick and starts beating the crap out of the driver and says, "Now sir, do you want me to slow down or stop?"
Now, do you want me to stop or slow down? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
-----
The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
-----
I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
|
|
|
|
|
"Don't ask, don't tell" - or was that something else?
|
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
