Corrected

[dianeduane]

The problem with e-Junkie which would have asked readers for $599.00 for each copy of the MS Reader version of A Wind from the South.

(I think moderately well of my work, but, guys, not THAT well.) ;)

Comments

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

So you're not Greenpeace?

BTW - what camera does P use?

[dduane.livejournal.com]

He has a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W17. Very sweet little machine. (7.2 megapixel.)

Re Greenpeace: :) Why, what did they do? I must have missed something.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Greenpeace overcharged its members a couple of weeks ago. Those members paying by monthly direct debit had their December-end subs overcharged by a factor of 100. So ... a member who paid £5.99 per month would have had £599 extracted from their account.

There were quite a few howls from their members - I wonder why, that's only 8 years 4 months subs in one go.

The difference here is that Greenpeace took the money first, whereas your customers will have seen the price first and had a theoretical chance to back out. (Theoretical only, of course. Who can live without aWftS? Happily, we have the two hard copies from '95.)

Another recent case of mischarging was when Blizzard's first tranche of credit card payments for the World of Warcraft game appeared on credit cards as having been paid to one of a number of hotels, including the Swallow Hotel in Harrogate. A nice take on it is here, but at least (a) the right amount of money was deducted, and (b) it went to Blizzard, who knew they'd had it, and honoured it. It was only the credit card statements that came out wrong, but at least one person I know cancelled his card before he found out.

[dduane.livejournal.com]

Good gosh. Boy, if that happened on one of *my* DD's, they'd hear about it all the way to the Moon.

[hypatia.livejournal.com]

Oh they did - I don't know how many members they lost but it wasn't a small number, plus the cost of reimbursing fees and 'bad will'. Its the kind of software error which one can't believe was missed in testing.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

One does wonder - well, I wonder - what actually happened. It's not as though they hadn't been receiving DD payments for years from some of these accounts.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

He has a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W17. Very sweet little machine. (7.2 megapixel.)

Aha. Very cute - that looks like a pretty good compact. Having just bought a new (to me, second-hand) Nikon SLR, I was wondering about interchangeability of parts, and remember him playing with filters. But now I recall, he was hanging out of the window of the Café Huguenin with a filter hand held over the lens. So unless he happens to have 67mm filters, no.

(And why, oh why, does every camera use a different memory card? My Fuji uses Smart Media, bellinghwoman's Fuji takes SD, my Nikon takes Compact Flash, and the Sony takes Memory Stick.)

[hypatia.livejournal.com]

He has a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W17. Very sweet little machine. (7.2 megapixel.)

So [Unknown site tag] do you consider that you come out on top?? :)

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Who?

[hypatia.livejournal.com]

bah humbug, go back to work and stop following up before I can correct my tags :P

But the question stands... (how is the new baby by the way?)