posted on November 16, 2000 01:37:58 PM new
This is the last straw. We have been selling on Yahoo for almost 2 years-all positive feedback.I tried to list on Yahoo today and got a message that I had to "verify" my credit card. We use a town about 30 miles away as our "location" because we live in a VERY VERY small town. We have had a stalker in the past and didn't want our exact location listed in the auction description (complete with a MAP, if you click on the town). We also use a P.O. Box for the same reasons- we have cause to be paranoid.(And just for the record we sell general stuff, not porn.) My complaint is this: If I "verify" the credit card by either of Yahoo's options, I have to give them our actual town address and it is then put into the auction listings as our location. I know that is true because I already tried it when I tried to sign up for PayDirect several weeks ago.<P>
The bottom line is this. We haven't had any sales on Yahoo since last summer unless you consider the one deadbeat no payer a sale.
Yahoo has no consideration for decent people and I am tired of the hassles. Color me gone, not that anyone cares. Once again the deadbeats and low lifes have screwed it up for honest people.<P>
Not "Floridian" on Yahoo.
posted on November 16, 2000 02:05:49 PM new
I'm with you. I just posted a thread this morning about the same thing. Auctionee was kind enough to reply that he/she thinks the address can be changed back to a po box after yahoo has verified it, but I am still uneasy about it.
Since yahoo has charged my CC in the past for wallet transactions, they shouldn't need a street address from me to "verify" anything. If a crazy bothers them enough, how can I be sure they won't give that info out?
The Post Office won't give out your home address unless the police ask for it - not too likely that a screwball will try that.
posted on November 16, 2000 03:36:21 PM new
#1 I don't have a "street address" as we also live in a tiny town. I have no problem posting on Yahoo, I used my P.O. Box.
BUT did run into one situation which required a street address, and I just gave them the address of the post office. In a small town, I'd get the mail one way or the other. I did tell the Post Office what I had done and they had no problem with that.
The fact is at least down here in the "deep south" there are still areas which have no local deliver and everyone has a P.O. Box or nothing - so I guess they'd just have to give the address of their local post office also.
Your address is NOT required in your ad. I put in my zip, and my P.O. Box - and on eBay the I merely use "In the Middle of No Where-South Alabama!"
Personally I am not concerned about some nut showing up - German Shepherds and Smith & Wesson quickly discourage unwanted visitors...
posted on November 16, 2000 07:36:57 PM new
jwpc, we must live in the same town!
No one understands when I tell them I don't have a route no. or a street address. Especially companies shipping from a big city. They actually think I am kidding them...or worse that I am crazy.
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."---Mark Twain
