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Comment by sphinx65 | Hacker News Reader

Wow, that might be the worst I've ever seen.

Does anyone here buy from auction sites often? Those are a nightmare, they let the sellers do pretty much anything and very few accept paypal (they're THAT stingy) - sellers on liveauction.com routinely ask buyers to provide credit card info over email. It looks like a lot of sellers are flocking to these because ebay is too strict, wait, I mean "sane".

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Recently I won an auction at Galabid.com. They use Stripe and after putting my credit card, it was denied (I think because it was a large payment and I have no limits). Unfortunately, the Stripe JS popup didn't let me change the card. I don't know why - I tried incognito, diff browsers, but it was helpless. I had to send another Card number and all its data through email or the items were going to be auctioned again if I didn't pay in 24hs.

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    * inactivates your account if your account is negative.
    * one reason for negative account is the credit card is expired.
    * you cannot update your credit card if the account is inactive.

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