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[quote author=RiverRat link=topic=3775.msg40871#msg40871 date=1169420594]
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Is Ray now requiring phone verification for buyers and sellers? It was mentioned on PSU.
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Yes and it has to be a landline or a cellphone. :blinkie:
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I can understand seller verification but buyer verification is a very fine line. If the reason is to avoid scammers, he needs a better plan, WPÂ is way too new and too small to start expecting buyers to jump through hoops. This will totally impact the sellers who are trying to get their ebay customers to purchase on the pop. Ebay doesn't even require this. If I were a seller on WP I would be pissed. The sellers better take a long hard look at this because it will impact their business directly. You find an item from say froogle, you like it and go to buy it BUT WAIT, you have to be phone verified?
Can you say hit the back button and jam on out of the site. Think people "think like a buyer", even if you really wanted the item would you want a phone call from a stranger and then pony up personal info. on top of that. Buyers have stated repeatedly that one of their top priorities is protecting their private information, for fear of identity theft among others.
This is a bad and I mean bad idea.
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I recently registered there and you literally had to wait for an automated phone call. Â THEN you had to wait for an email to send you a verification number to enter. Â Took almost 30 minutes for the email to show up.
So much for grabbing those impulse buyers. Â :
[quote author=FineThings4U link=topic=3775.msg40874#msg40874 date=1169421485]
Maybe that's why the store count has dropped to 411 today and nobody can find out if the mini mall is still operating (the one that Bric set up). Â Also gone is the breakfast thread that zmorick started every morning.
Sellers are going poof and disappearing without a word from the boards and/or from poopland.
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BricBracJo's store is gone too. Â She may have had more than one...but the one she used in her signature has been closed.
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Quote:Prompt payment of seller invoices is the absolute "lifeblood"only income I have coming in, and I am relying on the fact that at least 100% 90% of our trust-based community pays up.
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