posted on March 14, 2001 09:20:30 AM
(A) outside of the obvious, there are an increasing number of people with will power (not me)who by choice do not have, or don't use credit cards.
posted on March 14, 2001 07:14:28 PM
Knowing the bidder would be great, and I believe essential, but requiring information that many people don't have i.e. Credit Card can't be the only way to do it. Verification of email address, and phone number would be just as good. With live auctions, photo ID's are required, and in some cases letters of credit from the bank. While online auctions can't expect this kind of identification, verifying a phone number should be good enough, after all from that you can get all the rest of the information
about the person.
The process has to be simple and quick - the more bidders there are the better.
