Card update
5So, from what I can tell, if you have multiple addresses that you send things from Meh to and they are all tied to one card…and when that card gets an expiration date/CVC update, you have to remove all addresses and re-input. It looks like they are tied together.
Seems you should be able to simply update your card and not have to recreate all the shipping addresses from scratch.
My gripe of the day.
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Imagine a scenario (which could NEVER happen to any of you) in which someone gains access to your account. At that point, they add a new shipping address and because one card is tied to all addresses on the account, they start buying until the card is spent out. Of course, you dispute the charges, but the products have already shipped, so now they have our products, you win the dispute and get your money back, and we’re eating the loss. I’m aware that it can be frustrating, but having to put all the info in each time is great as a fraud prevention tool.
And you have to consider whether this is a you problem or not, as most accounts will go their entire lifetime with one address even if they change the card several times over the course of the account’s life. Sure, they have to put the full details in for each card change, just like each address change, but it’s not so common that making it easier is really needed.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@ExtraMedium In my case, I would actually prefer that any address change require an additional verification step, and I’d prefer to be able to mark them as “use JUST ONCE”, too. I spent a good twenty minutes clearing out the deadwood from a certain other online seller’s debris-field of a database the other day.
If they gained access and added their shipping address they would need my actual card number to complete their addition. They would not receive the goods. Now, they could buy a bunch of things for all of my family, but where is the fun in that for them?
@Dakini You can hire porch pirates, believe it or not.
@Dakini @werehatrack Now I need a rent-a-sniper outfit, and I’ve got a new form of entertainment.
@blaineg @Dakini @werehatrack But you’d also need a rent a dispose of the bodies to go with that rent a sniper unless that includes that function for you.
@blaineg @Dakini @Kidsandliz @werehatrack
There’s that yakko guy …
@Dakini @Kidsandliz @Kyeh @werehatrack Yep, I was planning on @yakkotdi for body pickup.
@blaineg @Dakini @Kidsandliz @Kyeh @werehatrack I only pick up dead hookers. Let me check my Rolodex for porch pirate pickup.
@blaineg @Dakini @Kyeh @werehatrack @yakkoTDI I’d imagine that blaineg’s can be hooked so you can pick them up.
@Dakini If Meh ever sells sex toys (besides the highly percussive massage tools that everyone seems to want to try while those of us who have one assure them OH NO YOU DO NOT), that might be hilarious.
@brainmist @Dakini
They DID sell them once …
@brainmist @Dakini @Kyeh
I remember that. The Night of the B.O.B.s
@brainmist @Dakini @Kyeh @yakkoTDI everyone knows that hitachi is a well respected tool brand who happened to make a very effective massage tool. That they decided to distance themselves from for some weird reason. Maybe magic
@brainmist @Dakini @Kyeh @unksol @yakkoTDI Hitachi turned their power tools into Metabo. Seems like a dumb idea, because the first time I came across “Metabo” I thought it was cheap Chinese rip-off brand.
Did they rename the massager too?
@blaineg @brainmist @Dakini @Kyeh @yakkoTDI they just dropped Hitachi like they finally figured it out and were embarrassed or something so it was just “Magic Wand”. That was years before the Metabo thing though. Jokes were made.
@blaineg @Dakini @Kidsandliz @Kyeh @werehatrack I guess my take is: why would a hacker go to the effort for a bunch of meh products?
@blaineg @Dakini @Kidsandliz @Kyeh @macromeh @werehatrack I mean… technically I agree and technically meh could be the sort of place where you could make a hobby of just sending junk to friends/family cause it amuses you.
I get mehs point too. If that’s how it works id probably just wipe all the non primary addresses when I changed a card. Then just add them when shipping them something since it’s probably one at a time.
@blaineg Hitachi sold their power tool division to a company that rebranded to Metabo.
haha…I am glad I gave y’all had so much fun talking about pirates, hookers and sex toys. In the meantime, I was just being grouchy because I had to update all my sites that store my card.
@Dakini
This forum does go off on interesting (?) tangents …
@Dakini @Kyeh eh, you’ve been here long enough, you know how we roll lol.
Imagine a poor new person though lol
@Kyeh @unksol True. I was half expecting to get blasted for whining. I am much happier to hear about sex toys.
@Dakini This is one of the most conflict-free and fun (conflict-freest? funnest?) forums I’ve been in. Most of the time I don’t have anything to say on a topic; I just like reading the discussions.
@Dakini @lisagd well… Most of the time. I’ll leave it at that
@Dakini @lisagd @unksol
@Dakini @Kyeh @unksol The sites here also have the benefit of offering wine to loosen up those discussions…