Your Electricity supplier is offering internet connection and a Netflix account in one, all for one "low" price. The integration of everything is to make it really difficult to move to a better deal.. Don't ever use the email account your internet supplier provides or you cannot change supplier.
I think the point was that if you use your ISP email address, you'll have to get a new email address if/when you change ISP. And if you're registered on a bunch of sites with that email, updating them all will be a major pain (on top of trying to get the word out to everyone you actually want to get email from).
Correct.
Sneaky? They publish how this works on their website and took me about 6 seconds to Google:
Funny how people see things differently. I think this is clearly the upside of the policy. You make an offer, they accept, you are obligated to buy it.
That's why you see so many Yahoo.com and Live.com (Microsoft) domains... ISP-independent. I still get orders from people with AOL.com addresses... my guess is that they do not have AOL anymore, but since Yahoo bought them awhile ago the domain (and email account) is being kept alive.
There is another upside: The seller can not back out of the sale if someone comes along and offers more if the seller will cancel the sale to the original buyer.
Hey, I resemble that!
Yup, same here. Probably still have some "10 hours of AOL Free" discs around, too. "Free" email ain't free, someone, somewhere, is paying for it. If you're not buying something, if you're not selling something, then YOU are the product!Hey, I resemble that!
There is a bit more to it that occurred in the last year or so. If you "make an offer," Ebay will automatically store your credit card info with your account on their system. You can no longer proceed with the offer without putting the number in, if it's not stored already. You can of course delete your number after that transaction. But it remains in place while your offer is open, say for 24 hours, or forever if you forget to delete it. If you are not comfortable with that, and I am not, I will message the seller and explain that. An experienced seller will know how to create a listing just for you with the agreed amount, and send you a link. A lot of extra bother you say? I had my credit card number hijacked twice within 3 months a few years ago, when I did have my number stored in Ebay and Paypal. The second time it happened, I pressed the fraud department for info on how it happened. They said they are not allowed to discuss those kind of details, but that I had not made any mistakes. I wouldn't drop it, so she said "theoretically" if my card number was stored somewhere, that was the cause of the breach to my account, and to remove all such places where that was true. I have not had a problem since, and I don't let third parties store the number anymore.
