Re:China’s web censors go into overdrive as President Xi Jin...
by trevyn on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @03:41PM
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>can easily make it so you can't buy things anymore
This actually happened to me on a small scale with a legitimate US company, as a US citizen placing a legitimate order. The company deals in high-fraud-risk physical goods, their system decided that I was a high fraud risk, and outright banned me for life. I would have been happy to provide any kind of ID, sent them cash in the mail, whatever. But nope, banned for life, end of story. Truly a bizarre, bizarre experience.
After their support line was no help, I emailed their CEO with no response so far. Their investors are up next.
This actually happened to me on a small scale with a legitimate US company, as a US citizen placing a legitimate order. The company deals in high-fraud-risk physical goods, their system decided that I was a high fraud risk, and outright banned me for life. I would have been happy to provide any kind of ID, sent them cash in the mail, whatever. But nope, banned for life, end of story. Truly a bizarre, bizarre experience.
After their support line was no help, I emailed their CEO with no response so far. Their investors are up next.