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| james_s:
--- Quote from: mendip_discovery on May 16, 2023, 06:01:07 pm ---One of the first things that the police talk about when you are looking at a website with the potential to buy from it. It comes about every year on the haunted fish tank at xmas time as the scammers try to sell that item that is hard to get gold of. --- End quote --- If it's some random business selling impossible to get fad items that has red flags all over it, I'm thinking of the sort of stuff I've bought from small businesses, obscure test equipment or kit devices, automotive accessories, injector cleaning, obscure tools, the sort of stuff that is often sold by one-man operations. I always pay by credit card for that sort of thing anyway so I'm not worried about getting scammed, if I get ripped off I can just have the charge reversed, no need to even get the police involved. |
| EPAIII:
I have had a one man company for over 10 years now and have never made any effort to hide my address. Never had even a single sales person or customer show up on my doorstep. E-mails, yes. Personal visits? NO. It might be nice to have a salesman call and buy me lunch someday. |
| PlainName:
In a previous life I had some group take a dislike to a potential product and do the usual doxing of me. Showed my address on their forum and threatened to turn up (amongst other things, like deliberately injuring themselves with the product to claim damages from me). Don't know if they did turn up because it was my accountants office address and, once you're there, pretty obvious it wasn't what they might be expecting ;) |
| soldar:
--- Quote from: ebastler on May 06, 2023, 12:45:19 pm ---In the European Union, EU directive 2000/31/EC makes it a legal requirement that contact information and address are provided on any website which offers "information society services". Member states have to put appropriate national legislation in place, e.g. in Germany the "Telemediengesetz" (TMG). That strange term "information society services" is defined broadly and includes e.g. online shops, online product catalogs, and other information offerings which serve a commercial purpose (and are typically, but not necessarily, offered for a charge). So there should not be much debate whether a EU-based commercial website makes the company's address available. --- End quote --- Yup. The EU has wonderful legislation on paper ... or I guess these days it would be on the Internet. In Spain this wonderful legislation is very often observed in the breach. Legislation which is not enforced is worse than no legislation. Some fly-by-night guy in his kitchen wants me to send him money but does not want me to know where I am sending my money. I have no problem buying from eBay not knowing where Mr ebay lives or buying from Amazon not knowing where Mr Amazon resides but I'll be darned if I'm going to send my money to some website where I have no redress if things do not go well. I would much rather pass on a too-good-to-be-true opportunity than take the risk. Consumers in Spain, which is nominally part of the EU, are totally unprotected. It is the law of the jungle and not the law of the EU. |
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