Amazon to stop accepting UK Visa credit cards

Re:Amazon to stop accepting UK Visa credit cards by zh3 on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @08:49AM (#29252895)

FWIW, as a UK Amazon buyer with a Visa Credit card, I received an email this morning with Subject line "Visa credit cards will not be accepted, starting 19 Jan, 2022" and nothing but my name in the body. A very, very basic email - interesting 'From' address though.

  Received: from a0-156.smtp-out.eu-west-1.amazonses.com  (a0-156.smtp-out.eu-west-1.amazonses.com [54.240.0.156]) <redacted>
  From: "Amazon.co.uk" <[email protected]>
  Subject: Visa credit cards will not be accepted, starting 19 Jan, 2022
  Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 09:15:34 +0000
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

  Amazon.co.uk

  <name redacted>

  Please note that this e-mail is being sent from an e-mail address that cannot receive e-mails. If you have any questions and wish to contact us, click  here:
     https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?<redacted>

  2021 Amazon.co.uk is a trading name for Amazon EU Sarl, for Amazon Media EU and for Amazon Services Europe Sarl, all of which have their registered office at 38 avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg.

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Re:Amazon to stop accepting UK Visa credit cards by whylo on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @10:12AM (#29254088)

I've just checked my copy of the email and you're right, the text/plain part only has my name in. The text/html part has the full message though.

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Re:Amazon to stop accepting UK Visa credit cards by zh3 on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @10:44AM (#29254564)

That's interesting, mine definitely only has plain text (no text/html, checked via view source etc). Maybe it's a preference I ticked somewhere back in the mists of time.

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Re:Amazon to stop accepting UK Visa credit cards by AnssiH on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @11:07AM (#29254857)

I also used to tick that preference when a choice was provided, but have stopped doing so after encountering too many cases of text/plain versions being broken one way or another. Not that common, but still too much of a hassle.

Sometimes they are "empty" like here, or contain placeholders in place of the actual data, or just break random features (e.g. eBay prevented other users from sending me photos).

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Re:Amazon to stop accepting UK Visa credit cards by kingcharles on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @10:59AM (#29254744)

"an e-mail address that cannot receive e-mails"

This should not be a thing.

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Re:Amazon to stop accepting UK Visa credit cards by r_c_a_d on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @09:58AM (#29253858)

Yes, I got one too and thought it was spam.

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Re:Amazon to stop accepting UK Visa credit cards by GoodbyeMrChips on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @10:50AM (#29254626)

Join the club.

The email formatting was so shite, I'm pretty sure any savvy reader assumed it was pishing (even though the URL appears legit).

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