Re: Yahoo is now recycling handles

[Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>]

They're just validating a credit card number; that was an authorization which won't be settled, almost certainly.

Royce Williams <royce () techsolvency com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Kee Hinckley <nazgul () marrowbones com>
> wrote:
> > On Sep 4, 2013, at 9:47 PM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org> wrote:
> >
> > > I've got to apologize publicly to Yahoo! here as part of my issue
> was my own stupidity.  It appears in the past I've had multiple Yahoo!
> ID's and I was
> > I, on the other hand, need someone from Yahoo! to contact me, because
> I decided to test their "email wishlist" feature. Repeated attempts got
> me nothing but a message saying that my credit card information was
> incorrect. But when I checked my bill this morning, I have three fifty
> cent charges against my account (one for each time I revalidated my
> email address while attempting to use their form). There's no contact
> page on http://wishlist.yahoo.com, despite the fact that it's an
> ecommerce page that takes credit cards, and there's no apparent way to
> contact a human from the main yahoo page. I can always ask my credit
> card company to refuse the charges, but if Yahoo! is charging credit
> cards and not providing services, I think someone there needs to know
> there's a problem. Never mind taking credit card numbers and providing
> no customer support.
>
> And it's not an isolated incident -- the exact same thing happened to
> me last night as well.
>
> Royce

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