Re:Candy Japan 2015 Year in Review
by kbenzle on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @05:06PM
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Best reply, but... How often is a typo made (1:1000?), how much time for support staff is needed and how many lost orders due to a ~24 hour delay in some orders being placed. Also, easy to flood the system with bad orders that need to be manually sorted, like a fake order DDoS.
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If a typo is made 1:1000 times Candy Japan would have had.. 2? At this small scale it's probably worth it - the loss of a customer isn't as big a problem as loss of physical goods.
Not to mention that you can verify the Luhn checksum on CC numbers and immediately catch ~90% of all typos (and 100% of single-digit typos). Don't even need a server call.
Re:Candy Japan 2015 Year in Review
by fweespeech on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @08:43PM
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Honest people don't make typos that pass the checksum based on my experience at $DayJob.