On Thursday, October 8, 2020 at 11:58:06 AM UTC+1, alan_m wrote:
On 07/10/2020 11:19, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:


But the likes of ECP are basically a warehouse with a counter. And usually
busy. And given Ebay sales include free delivery, I'd love to see a true
breakdown of costs.


This morning I attempted to buy directly from the Saxton Blades web
site. I had problems with their checkout as it failed to accept any of
my email addresses and wouldn't let me proceed without an email address
it would recognise (this was not shopping as a "guest" customer and not
as registered account customer). I gave up and decided to see what I
could find on Ebay. Same item from the Saxton Ebay shop and cheaper
without the hassle of filling in their USA orientated point of sales
software questions/details.
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I use varying email addresses, all with a plus sign '+' in them - my mail server has a rule
to ignore this. This allows me to disambiguate where any spammish emails have originated.

The '+' sign is a perfectly valid character in a ll the RFCs, but I am constantly amazed at
how many business's websites don't accept it in an email address. Probably some crappy
bit of PHP that was written years ago and propagated like a virus.

I tend to let them know about this to give them a chance to fix it. If they don't or are unable to,
that tells me something ...