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Tuesday, December 7th, 2010 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
afunaI've been pretty stoked about the SitePoint promos, and their most recent time-limited promo was pretty good, containing a couple of CSS books I have heard promising things about so I ordered it through their site. I got a receipt but it appears my order didn't go through, so I fired off an email, thinking it was just a glitch.
Turns out that the Philippines is marked by WorldPay as high-risk for fraud, so they can't process my order unless I use PayPal (which I won't use unless absolutely necessary because I don't like their policies), or I send them some kind of paperwork or something.n
They are being very professional about this, understand. They have assured me that I won't run into any issues with the time-limit on the promo because it's not my fault, and it's nothing personal etc etc. I sympathize with their needing to protect their business; after clearing my mind, I will probably even be able to appreciate it. But right now I can't help but feel humiliated and I need to walk away from the computer for a couple of hours before I can dive in and try to sort it all out.
Perfect timing though: I was checking out a boxing gym near home yesterday; now seems a good time to try it out :)
Turns out that the Philippines is marked by WorldPay as high-risk for fraud, so they can't process my order unless I use PayPal (which I won't use unless absolutely necessary because I don't like their policies), or I send them some kind of paperwork or something.n
They are being very professional about this, understand. They have assured me that I won't run into any issues with the time-limit on the promo because it's not my fault, and it's nothing personal etc etc. I sympathize with their needing to protect their business; after clearing my mind, I will probably even be able to appreciate it. But right now I can't help but feel humiliated and I need to walk away from the computer for a couple of hours before I can dive in and try to sort it all out.
Perfect timing though: I was checking out a boxing gym near home yesterday; now seems a good time to try it out :)
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Date: 2010-12-07 06:45 am (UTC)Welcome to our globalized world, eh? I'm right there with you -- the bike our daughter wants for Christmas is only available at a store in the US, and they absolutely refuse to take a credit card with a non-US billing address, even though it was issued by a US bank. *shakes fist*
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Date: 2010-12-08 07:14 am (UTC)See also: the inability to buy any ebooks from Apple, the inability to access Pandora / Hulu (okay yeah licensing *g*) and well *handwave*
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