Re: Yahoo is now recycling handles

[Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>]

"Repeated attempts".

Wonder how many.

Cheers,
- jr 'betting on three' a

Warren Bailey <wbailey () satelliteintelligencegroup com> wrote:
> Makes you wonder why the charges are in triplicate? An authorization 
> takes place once to validate the card certainly, but once the
> validation is done yahoo should mark the card as good and allow you to
> party as previous scheduled. This isn't shocking.. Considering almost
> anything to do with Yahoo! turns into an epic cluster product and
> service wise. I'm still curious as to how they are actually going to
> generate money.. Probably a little less curious than they are I'd
> imagine.. ;)
>
>
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>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
> Date: 09/05/2013 5:27 PM (GMT-08:00)
> To: Royce Williams <royce () techsolvency com>,"nanog () nanog org list"
> <nanog () nanog org>
> Subject: Re: Yahoo is now recycling handles
>
>
> 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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