Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%

Re:Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49% by mikestew on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:59PM (#17526650)

I'm all set to jump on the Amazon hate bandwagon, and I'm tryin', I really am. So when I wanted window shadows for our RV, I thought I'd give the non-Amazon shop a shot. They had what I wanted, order page was tidy, item arrives in short order, and the shades are better quality than I expected. Happy customer!

Until two days later and my bank calls, telling me my CC is compromised. Now, I can't say for sure it was the online vendor's fault. But in summary, I would hesitate to order from them again.

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Re:Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49% by d4l3k on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:04PM (#17526675)

I've been using https://privacy.com/ to prevent this exact kind of thing.

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Re:Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49% by pnathan on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:39PM (#17526961)

Huh, never heard of them before. Interesting concept, but the in-browser replacements worry me. Know of any service that does disposable CCs without the in-browser hackery?

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Re:Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49% by knuththetruth on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:08PM (#17527264)

Citbank offers disposable credit card numbers for your account:

https://www.cardbenefits.citi.com/Products/Virtual-Account-N...

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Re:Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49% by pnathan on Saturday July 14, 2018 @12:00AM (#17528740)

I believe you, but I would much prefer not to have another credit cards. I have a very straightforward system right now, and adding a citi card would not help that.

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Re:Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49% by icebraining on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:05PM (#17526686)

Some banks also have virtual CCs included.

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Re:Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49% by therealdrag0 on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:58PM (#17527580)

I used this back when PayPal did it. Wonder why they stopped.

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Re:Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49% by ddoolin on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:54PM (#17527109)

That's neat, thanks for sharing.

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Re:Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49% by yourapostasy on Friday July 13, 2018 @08:46PM (#17528068)

> Until two days later and my bank calls, telling me my CC is compromised. Now, I can't say for sure it was the online vendor's fault.

It takes some getting used to, but this is the precise reason I use one-time use credit card numbers (also called virtual credit cards). Only a few card issuers offer this, but it has stopped cold the credit card fraud I used to experience from e-commerce. There are criticisms of this service [1], which I haven't experienced, though YMMV.

[1] https://www.mybanktracker.com/credit-cards/faq/why-virtual-c...

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