Amazon Payment fun
October 1 2010, 12:48 PM
I love Amazon Web Services as you can see from the direct tone below. I'm using EC2 since ~2007.
A had a little funny smalltalk with them yesterday. Probably (hopefully? :) they didn't read my full mail, just checked whether I'm a human or not... Btw, these names in their emails look like some random names just to make their customer service system feel more human, aren't they? ;)
from Amazon Web Services reply-to "aws-verification+XXXXXXXX@amazon.com" to "hermantamas@gmail.com" date Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:58 PM subject Your Amazon Inquiry mailed-by bounces.amazon.com signed-by amazon.com Greetings, Thank you for contacting Amazon Web Services. We appreciate your business and interest in our product. We have verified the details provided by you and are glad to inform that we have activated your Amazon Web Services account. Thank you for your interest in Amazon Web Service! Best regards, Sunil S aws.amazon.com ---- Original message: ---- Jason, or whoever reads it, Can I just add a different credit card info? I tried to visit the "Payment Method" page (http://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/account/index.html?action=edit-payment-method) where I'was told to login but my password is not accepted (I have even went through the "Forgot Password?" procedure but it's still not accepted) On the other hand the reserved instance I paid for seems to be active, so I can't really interpret this email... in a summary: wtf? I live in Singapore for more than 2 years. I use my Hungarian credit card to pay online, but I do not contact my bank in any other way than net-banking and via SMS to my hungarian phone number. My statements are delivered somewhere in Hungary (to my parents? ex girlfriend? who the fuck remembers? damn dead tree based stone age administration... probably they are wiping their ass with those statements...) Would it be satisfactory if we could retry the phone authorization using my hungarian phone number? How could you be so last century anyway in 2010 that you are asking for FAXing?... I can't even recall how a FUX machine looks like, damnit! I have 2 Singaporean debit cards (Citibank and POSB) too which are successfully registered to my PayPal account together with their corresponding bank accounts, but usually they are not accepted directly to pay online, only via PayPal. I would still like to try with You guys, because I hope if PayPal could accept them, u can accept them too... I turn on my hungarian phone: +36 (70) 38x xxxx and here is my Singaporean one too: +65 97xx xxxx please call me. -- tom ps: ah, i just see your vague reference to this "payments account disabled". well, the There was a problem with your request There was an error with your E-Mail/Password combination. Please try again. error message on the sign in page doesn't really express the current situation...