Re: [Sheflug] Re: bounce

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Alex Hudson wrote:

> [1] - You may think I'm joking, I'm not. I've done it myself. And not from a
> penny-ante company, but from a  major UK hardware / music / video website,
> with a product worth ~£200. It's a long story - I'm going to put a document
> about it on my website cos it _really_ annoyed me when they did it (it was
> accidental in a way - I didn't ask them specifically to do it, but for
> various reasons obvious now they did).

Amazon let you have as many delivery addresses as you like. I have stuff
on both Mastercard and Switch delivered to two addresses routinely.
Unfortunately I don't see how they check - OK with sophisticated modern
systems maybe, but the old PDQs had just a number pad, and no way to check
the address, you just keyed and hoped. And the floor limit used to be 25
quid (i.e. below that it was not even checked by Barclays Merchant
Services)


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