A little off topic: I recently attempted an online purchase for just under $1400. The merchant first required a Fax of my driver's license along with both the front and back of my debit card. I was requesting delivery to my business address, different from my billing address. So, they then requested a Fax of something with my name accociated with the shipping address I'd given ... and I complied. THEN, they requested a Fax of a recent utility bill (which would not show the shipping address). After almost a week of this BS, I agreed to have the order shipped to the billing address. That started a greivance with UPS, which is another story. The online merchant got a sale off of me, but I will never buy from them again, and have not helped their word-of-mouth reputation. I placed a more substantial order with a different company for a similar amount who only required live telephone confirmation. No, I wasn't plopping paper money down on the counter in a brick & mortar store in either case. But, I wasn't using credit either. And, the difference in proceedure from one merchant to the next is striking. In the former, if they needed those three faxes of four items to confirm the order they should've told me that from the start. Instead of an initial request, followed by a second request, and then a third request and finally, a change from my preferred shipping address before they would ship. I guarantee they will not have me as a repeat customer.
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