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Zeppi Schlegel
Registered User
Join date: 20 Nov 2003
Posts: 50
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02-09-2005 06:01
Sorry for the delay. PayPal continued to post garbage to us until about 7am this morning, and I just finished testing my patches. Please let me know if you find any major problems, and forgive me if you don't get an immediate response - our support log is backed up a bit.  NOTE: We now require you to have an avatar 30 days old or older linked to your account before you can deposit cash or L$. I know this is a bit of an inconvenience for some, but it should go a long way towards preventing the types of losses we sustained in the past 24 hours. Cheers. Zep |
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blaze Spinnaker
1/2 Serious
Join date: 12 Aug 2004
Posts: 5,898
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02-09-2005 06:03
Zeppi, I suggest you let people who have avatars that are under 30 days be able to do transactions of worth $50 USD or less
It's unlikely anyone would risk defrauding you for that kind of chump change.
On particular reason why I like to do business on the internet for sub $10 products is because I am very rarely a target of CC fraud at those levels.
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Al Bravo
Retired
Join date: 29 Jun 2004
Posts: 373
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02-09-2005 06:03
Great job! Quick recovery. Everything looks fine on my account.
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Reitsuki Kojima
Witchhunter
Join date: 27 Jan 2004
Posts: 5,328
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02-09-2005 06:07
From: blaze Spinnaker Zeppi, I suggest you let people who have avatars that are under 30 days be able to do transactions of worth $50 USD or less
It's unlikely anyone would risk defrauding you for that kind of chump change.
On particular reason why I like to do business on the internet for sub $10 products is because I am very rarely a target of CC fraud at those levels. Multiple accounts... |
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CalvinRichard Klein
Registered User
Join date: 21 Sep 2004
Posts: 160
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02-09-2005 06:08
From: Reitsuki Kojima Multiple accounts... Didnt they say the 300k or whatever it was was stolen using several accounts? |
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Hiro Pendragon
bye bye f0rums!
Join date: 22 Jan 2004
Posts: 5,905
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02-09-2005 06:17
Great work, Zeppi! and overnight hours, too.
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Zeppi Schlegel
Registered User
Join date: 20 Nov 2003
Posts: 50
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02-09-2005 06:47
From: blaze Spinnaker Zeppi, I suggest you let people who have avatars that are under 30 days be able to do transactions of worth $50 USD or less
It's unlikely anyone would risk defrauding you for that kind of chump change.
On particular reason why I like to do business on the internet for sub $10 products is because I am very rarely a target of CC fraud at those levels. While I understand what you're saying, in this instance it simply would have limited the loss a bit. This person had amassed a large number of stolen accounts (sounds like Damien got hit with the same guy?). So yes we would have lost less per account, but we still would have lost a bunch. We'll see how many complaints we get. Zep |
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blaze Spinnaker
1/2 Serious
Join date: 12 Aug 2004
Posts: 5,898
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02-09-2005 07:49
The problem is that we will have to tell new users to go to IGE rather than GOM because of this new policy.
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Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper " Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds : " User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."
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CalvinRichard Klein
Registered User
Join date: 21 Sep 2004
Posts: 160
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02-09-2005 07:51
If you find any newbie that is really in a pinch for L dollars tell them to contact billy Madison, he will sell it at gom current rate.
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Ursula Madison
Chewbacca is my co-pilot
Join date: 31 Jul 2004
Posts: 713
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02-09-2005 13:39
The 30-day policy won't affect me now, but it would have when I first used GOM to help me buy land. I have a feeling that if someone is bitten by the SL bug, and wants to buy L$, they are going to want to do it within the first 30 days... so they'll have to use IGE from now on. And once they use IGE, what are the odds that they'll ever bother opening a GOM account? I know I don't like having to use multiple accounts... so I've never signed up at IGE.
I hope you find another way of protecting yourself without having to turn away new players... that policy might end up biting you in the ass.
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Flux Delorean
Registered User
Join date: 17 Jun 2004
Posts: 10
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02-09-2005 15:07
Still no good alternatives to Paypal?
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Beryl Greenacre
Big Scaredy-Baby
Join date: 24 Jun 2003
Posts: 1,312
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02-09-2005 15:39
From: Ursula Madison The 30-day policy won't affect me now, but it would have when I first used GOM to help me buy land. I have a feeling that if someone is bitten by the SL bug, and wants to buy L$, they are going to want to do it within the first 30 days... so they'll have to use IGE from now on. And once they use IGE, what are the odds that they'll ever bother opening a GOM account? I know I don't like having to use multiple accounts... so I've never signed up at IGE.
I hope you find another way of protecting yourself without having to turn away new players... that policy might end up biting you in the ass. This is exactly what I thought when I read about this new policy. I hope GOM can find another way to protect itself because I think this will just divert more business to IGE.
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