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Why do I need an app for everything?
Last night - late night online shopping. I found something I like on Mercari. I don't have a Mercari account. Shouldn't be that hard to set one up, should it?
I created an account. Had to set an extra special super long password.
Of course, I had to add a credit card, or Venmo. I don't have Venmo.
I had to add an email account. I used my throwaway account. They can spam that all they want.
Then they needed a phone number. Okay, I used my google voice number. It provides some level of filtering of spam calls.
I was able to now buy the item. Except the seller listed two of the same item, but different sizes, and asked to message him to indicate which one you want.
I clicked send message, entered my message, clicked send. Verification required. What?
I need to add a government ID to send a message. There's no way to do that in the web site, you have to download the app to your phone. Kind of hard to load an app to a google voice account, so I opened a help ticket asking how to verify on the website. They did respond quickly, saying "just use the app". I told them I had a flip phone, what's the workaround? Apparently there is none.
Fine, cancel my order, cancel my account.
Sir, just go on the app, click blah blah blah. I don't have your app, and I'm not going to load it.
I'm in limbo right now. There's a pending charge on my credit card, waiting on the seller to acknowledge the cancellation of the order. I can just bet, even if the order is allowed to be cancelled, Mercari will keep their ~$2.00 fee on the sale.
Bastages.
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