OT: Registering/Accounts with online vendors

[Bob Batson]

At 7:11 PM -0500 7/20/02, Michael wrote:

>Along with the obvious benefits of tracking users habits and being able to
>resale contact information there are some real reasons why ecommerce sites
>usually require you have an account to purchase. Most of them have to do
>with liability and credit card hassles. If you sell anything remotely
>'adult' you want to have some sort of record of the user verifying their
>age and identity. Also because credit cards are so friendly to consumers
>about giving refunds and businesses really hate to eat those costs
>(especially if the chargeback was fraud) so the more information they can
>collect and record the better their chance of successfully proving the
>transaction was legit and that they've done everything they could to
>please the customer.

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Thanks to all for answering my question in a clear and succinct 
manner! And for those of you like the ability to create email 
accounts for each
business with whom you do business, check out Spamex.com at http://spamex.com/

-- 
Bob Batson
rcb at kc.rr.com

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