[Gllug] OT: Paying for stuff - Was: So no one has opinions about ISPs?

[Pete Stean]

I know this can be done in the states but I don't think it's possible here
(yet) - it's a "one-shot" virtual credit card that you can load with
whatever value you want to make a particular payment. Once the value is used
it's dead... a good solution imho

On 03/08/07, DL Neil <GLLUG at getaroundtoit.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Quoting Ian Norton-Badrul <bredroll at darkspace.org.uk>:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:48:29AM +0100, Henrik Morsing wrote:
> >> I have previously been with PlusNet and they're absolutely superb.
> >
> > Plusnet terminated my contact for 'unspecified reasons' and continued to
> bill
> > my switch card every month for 5 months, they refused to let me
> > contact them to
> > complain because my account was blacklisted
> ...
> > In the end I reported to my bank that 'some funny internet company is
> showing
> > up on my statement and i've never authorised any payments', natwest
> > changed my
> > card and gave me my refund.
>
> As someone who has lived overseas and who has set up an 'Internet
> Bank', this characteristic of UK commerce leaves me with chills.
>
> Similarly I have found component suppliers 'dipping into' my
> Switch/Maestro account after over-refunding me; and when Bulldog was
> leashed to Pipex they set up a new Direct Debit Agreement without
> reference to me (not so bad, but the old one was left 'alive' and thus
> left me exposed to 'double-dipping').
>
> There seems to be no way to stop a Maestro repeated payment - indeed
> is there even a way to stop a single transaction
> magically/accidentally becoming a repeating payment? At least with a
> Direct Debit one can go online and cancel the arrangement (but can the
> other party then reinstate it without reference on the basis of the
> original signed document?). With Internet transfers/payments, the
> account holder is in control, eg how I pay my web host and yet cover
> 'extras' such as new domain registrations.
>
> Which regular payment method is the safest/least exposed to supplier
> arrogance/abuse, that at the same time is acceptable to suppliers?
>
> Regards,
> =dn
>
>
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