Hi All,
So after several years of stalking you all on this forum and shamelessly stealing all of your fantastic advice in the threads, I figured it was time to join the conversation. I'm starting out in the medical profession, so I keep fully up-to-date on the research and I'm passionately committed to proving the relative safety and efficacy of vaping, and promoting it as a substitute both for tobacco (which kills you) and for other NRT (which don't work). We seem to be at the point now where we are getting into a serious war with some very powerful vested interests and their friends in political places, so anyone with any serious interest in public health has an obligation to step up, and I look forward to the fight.
Before I go any further, I have one retailer related query for all of you. I recently placed a fairly large order with myfreedomsmokes, using my wife's card because their address verification wouldn't accept my own. I have ordered countless times from other online vendors, but this is my first experience with them. After placing the order, having the payment verified and cleared by the bank (they called us and the money has left my wife's account), and providing MFS with the verification code for the transaction given to us by the bank, they are insisting that I email them copies of my wife's signature and her bank account details on a word doc they sent me, and a photo of her passport or other photo id, before they ship the goods I ordered.
This is the first time I have ever been asked to do this by any online vendor for anything, and it seems to me not only a ridiculous demand (would anyone here seriously send that information over an insecure email to someone they don't know at a website?), but also in violation of their merchant's agreement with Visa, which prohibits demanding ID as a condition of Visa transactions (pge. 34). I am waiting to hear bank from our bank on whether they want to make a formal complaint to Visa, but in the meantime I thought I would ask you all here: Is this a thing? has anyone else ever been asked to do this?
Cheers all.
So after several years of stalking you all on this forum and shamelessly stealing all of your fantastic advice in the threads, I figured it was time to join the conversation. I'm starting out in the medical profession, so I keep fully up-to-date on the research and I'm passionately committed to proving the relative safety and efficacy of vaping, and promoting it as a substitute both for tobacco (which kills you) and for other NRT (which don't work). We seem to be at the point now where we are getting into a serious war with some very powerful vested interests and their friends in political places, so anyone with any serious interest in public health has an obligation to step up, and I look forward to the fight.
Before I go any further, I have one retailer related query for all of you. I recently placed a fairly large order with myfreedomsmokes, using my wife's card because their address verification wouldn't accept my own. I have ordered countless times from other online vendors, but this is my first experience with them. After placing the order, having the payment verified and cleared by the bank (they called us and the money has left my wife's account), and providing MFS with the verification code for the transaction given to us by the bank, they are insisting that I email them copies of my wife's signature and her bank account details on a word doc they sent me, and a photo of her passport or other photo id, before they ship the goods I ordered.
This is the first time I have ever been asked to do this by any online vendor for anything, and it seems to me not only a ridiculous demand (would anyone here seriously send that information over an insecure email to someone they don't know at a website?), but also in violation of their merchant's agreement with Visa, which prohibits demanding ID as a condition of Visa transactions (pge. 34). I am waiting to hear bank from our bank on whether they want to make a formal complaint to Visa, but in the meantime I thought I would ask you all here: Is this a thing? has anyone else ever been asked to do this?
Cheers all.
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