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Re: Yahoo is now recycling handles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Bailey)
Fri Sep 6 00:29:50 2013
From: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>, Royce Williams <royce@techsolvency.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 04:29:33 +0000
In-Reply-To: <8095bc40-f4d6-45b0-8e64-3806dba69002@email.android.com>
Reply-To: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Cough.
>
>And it's not an isolated incident -- the exact same thing happened to
>me last night as well.
>
>Royce
Cough. ;)
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-------- Original message --------
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Date: 09/05/2013 8:55 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>,Warren Bailey <w=
bailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>,Royce Williams <royce@techsolvency.c=
om>,"nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Yahoo is now recycling handles
"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 sche=
duled. 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 t=
o how they are actually going to generate money.. Probably a little less cu=
rious 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@n=
anog.org>
Subject: Re: Yahoo is now recycling handles
They're just validating a credit card number; that was an authorization whi=
ch 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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