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Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan () robotics net>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:14:38 -0600 (CST)
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Joe Abley wrote:
On 2008-12-12, at 15:02, Martin List-Petersen wrote:It's a misconception of some muppets, especially in IT related products, that forget, that a lot or IT professionals do travel all over the world and usually have a credit card in their home country.Pure and utter nonsense.Or perhaps the hassle of dealing with stolen US credit card numbers from clients outside the US costs far more money than you could hope to make back with the purchases of US nationals travelling overseas?Could well be muppets, but surely there are other possibilities.
Sad but true, we have had to turn off signups outside the US because of that very problem. Yes, I am sure we lose some sales, but in general it is not worth the fraud costs.
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Current thread:
- Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP..., (continued)
- Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... Martin List-Petersen (Dec 11)
- Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... Martin Hannigan (Dec 11)
- Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... Robert Tarrall (Dec 11)
- Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... Randy Bush (Dec 11)
- Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... John Curran (Dec 11)
- RE: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... Frank Bulk (Dec 12)
- Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... Nicolas Antoniello (Dec 12)
- Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... Jim Popovitch (Dec 12)
- Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... Martin List-Petersen (Dec 12)
- Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... Joe Abley (Dec 12)
- Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... Nathan Stratton (Dec 12)
- Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... Owen DeLong (Dec 12)
- Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... Martin List-Petersen (Dec 12)
- RE: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... Tomas L. Byrnes (Dec 12)
- Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... Martin Hannigan (Dec 12)
- Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... Randy Bush (Dec 12)
- Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... Paul Ferguson (Dec 12)
- Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... Randy Bush (Dec 12)
- Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... Paul Ferguson (Dec 12)
- Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... Randy Bush (Dec 12)
- Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... Paul Ferguson (Dec 12)