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> What do you want merchants to do? Accept a certain amount of loss in exchange for fair customer treatment. Obviously this isn't binary, but for something lik
by kodablah 9y ago
> What do you want merchants to do?
Accept a certain amount of loss in exchange for fair customer treatment. Obviously this isn't binary, but for something like an email address, it can be considered a factor, but should not be a determining one.
- chipperyman573 9y ago>something like an email address, it can be considered a factor, but should not be a determining one. The article specifically states that no one indicator will result in a payment being denied. There aren't any determining factors in this system
- kodablah 9y agoTrue. I mean in the general case.
- notatoad 9y ago>Accept a certain amount of loss in exchange for fair customer treatment. "accepting loss" gets priced accordingly. personally, i'd rather give merchants my real email address and not pay an extra fee simply to give you the privilege of keeping your email address secret. If you want to make yourself indistinguishible from a fraudster, please find a way to do it without affecting the price everybody else pays.
- kodablah 9y agoLots of things that help other customers besides you are priced into the product you pay for. In some cases (like if a company auto-rejected strange email addresses), I don't think it's fair to expect other customers or the company to cater only to how you purchase. Of course, just being "flagged" as is the case here instead of rejected is fine. It's larger companies that use these heuristics as their final answer that are the problem, and we shouldn't blame/punish legitimate customers.
- notatoad 9y ago>I don't think it's fair to expect other customers or the company to cater only to how you purchase. but you do think it's fair to expect a company to cater to the relatively unique way you use email?