[165454] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo is now recycling handles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Royce Williams)
Thu Sep 5 17:29:40 2013
In-Reply-To: <2DF7933E-A48B-428C-B9DE-2810D50A43A1@marrowbones.com>
From: Royce Williams <royce@techsolvency.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 13:07:48 -0800
To: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Kee Hinckley <nazgul@marrowbones.com> wrote=
:
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> 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 d=
ecided to test their "email wishlist" feature. Repeated attempts got me not=
hing but a message saying that my credit card information was incorrect. Bu=
t when I checked my bill this morning, I have three fifty cent charges agai=
nst my account (one for each time I revalidated my email address while atte=
mpting 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
