Yahoo is now recycling handles

Thu Sep 5 21:07:48 UTC 2013

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Kee Hinckley <nazgul at marrowbones.com> wrote:
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> On Sep 4, 2013, at 9:47 PM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell at ufp.org> wrote:
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>> I've got to apologize publicly to Yahoo! here as part of my issue was my own stupidity.  It appears in the past I've had multiple Yahoo! ID's and I was
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> I, on the other hand, need someone from Yahoo! to contact me, because I decided to test their "email wishlist" feature. Repeated attempts got me nothing but a message saying that my credit card information was incorrect. But when I checked my bill this morning, I have three fifty cent charges against my account (one for each time I revalidated my email address while attempting to use their form). There's no contact page on http://wishlist.yahoo.com, despite the fact that it's an ecommerce page that takes credit cards, and there's no apparent way to contact a human from the main yahoo page. I can always ask my credit card company to refuse the charges, but if Yahoo! is charging credit cards and not providing services, I think someone there needs to know there's a problem. Never mind taking credit card numbers and providing no customer support.

And it's not an isolated incident -- the exact same thing happened to
me last night as well.

Royce