Fri, 29 Feb 2008

Flickr Sucks.

My flickr account expired recently and I wanted to renew it. I tried a few weeks ago and it didn't work. I tried again today thinking it was a transient problem on their end. Turns out it's still not letting me renew my account. Their error message is worthless and their help is equally as worthless. Maybe one of my friends at Yahoo! will see this and tell me what I'm doing wrong. All I'm trying to do is pay with either my credit card or paypal.

Sorry, there is a problem with this payment method. Click here to use another payment method or edit your payment information to proceed in purchasing this service. (4) Please see http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ordering for further information. If you are using PayPal as a payment method for this service, please review your PayPal information to make sure it is accurate and that the funding source associated with your PayPal account is valid and has sufficient funds for this purchase.

I just looked at my bank account and I have at least 3 purchases from Flickr for this. Seriously, what a POS service they provide.

UPDATE: Turns out they keep my address on file (gee, thanks Yahoo!) and it didn't match the one my bank has. Now I need to update my address with Yahoo! every time I move? Tell me again why they need my address and why they are submitting it to my bank? Is it too hard to give me a useful error message when something wrong happens? Now I need to keep an eye on my bank account and make sure the charges are properly dropped.

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