Re: Yahoo is now recycling handles

[Royce Williams <royce () techsolvency com>]

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