£1 Age Verification Demand from O2 to see abctales on phone!
Sat, 2011-03-12 00:09
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£1 Age Verification Demand from O2 to see abctales on phone!
hello -like it says in the title - I can't see abctales on phone tonight unless I verify I'm over 18 and give them a quid. Same story i hear for other open to all sites. New Policy? Are they skint?? What is this?! We are losing traffic here tonight...anyone have the same thing happening?
littleditty
correction: £1 Age Verification *Request* from O2 to see abctales on phone!
Mangone
How does paying them a quid prove you’re over 18?
Reminds me of early Internet ‘scams’ which suggested that if you had a credit card you must be 18, or over, so paying them a ‘nominal fee’ with your credit card proved you passed the age requirement.
Mind you, in my opinion, some of the things I’ve read recently on ABCtales SHOULD require Age Verification.
Insertponceyfre...
that happened to me last week and it was a total pain in the arse standing on a freezing cold station platform balancing credit card and iphone and bag. And it didn't work first time. Bastards. And once it HAD worked, it changed my settings somehow (or whatever it was) and all I could get was some crappy O2 homescreen thing. So then I had to phone O2 and they had to re-set my settings, or whatever, which took three hours to go back to normal. Complete waste of time. Once you put your cc details in they do say they take a pound and refund you 2.50 - and if you don't have a cc they tell you to go to an O2 shop and show them some id. It pissed me off no end.
Insertponceyfre...
i asked what the point was, and the man sounded tired and said O2 had re-set things. I suppose it's designed to stop children accessing porn on their smartphones? Like that's going to work......
littleditty
well -they could have sent us a text or email -saying please do this and that at a time that siuts so we dont mess up your night - - - no -they wanted to make insert fiddle around in the rain and get annoyed - muck up peoples internet/business meetings etc for days -i don't understand!! I didnt have a creditcard on me -and on principle I didn't want to do it -they suggested I go to a shop tomorrow with photo ID -i work weekends -and I DON@T WANT TO!!!!
what about the traffic lost while this mess is happening? Site owners are losing money while they make their quids!
If i was going to a porn site then maybe I'd get it -but abc?
I dont want £2.50 back in phone time -I have enough phone time thanks - and I dont want to watch porn on my phone.
I'm fed up with company rip off annoying things!!
littleditty
and -i'm fed up with Britons doffing their caps sooo low while they get shafted -Viva la Revolution!
Insertponceyfre...
littleditty - they don't give you the money as phone credit - it goes back onto your card. Not that it makes any difference - it was such a stupid clunky way of doing something that seems so pointless anyway. If you go to an X rated site don't you have to click a disclaimer before you access it? Or perhaps it's something to do with some lawsuit somewhere? - like when someone sued a coffeeshop when they burnt themselves, and so now they have to write "warning this might be hot" on each cup.
Insertponceyfre...
I completely agree that they could have sent us warning texts - how hard would that have been?
littleditty
is that too rude a metaphor? I quietly used the phrase, 'pissed off' to a customer service advisor at camerabox.co.uk to inform them how I was feeling about them have £1000 of mine and not delivering or contacting or answering/replying for 3 weeks.
He took great offense at this phrase so I apologised and translated it for him - informed him that i was trying to inform him that his customer was upset, frustrated and angry - to summarise - it doesn't matter really was the answer -and i should doff my hat and wait because I cant do anything for 30 days with Visa, and they don't care anyway.
Fed up with this kind of thing!
(sorry if my spelling is off, cant check, in rush, and bit dicklesic today)
littleditty
oh hello insert -yes. Well I have to go to work now -i wont be on abctales until i find a computer!
Ta-ta -Have a good day!