I bought that light a week or so ago. I should have been clearer. Since he is selling reall TF stuff, is there some way to see his other lights?
>>>>>Also, people have a concern that they don’t offer PayPal. Don’t be concerned. Here’s why.
I respectfully disagree, and but I don’t want to start an argument … Over the past 12 years, I have helped design and worked as a consultant on MANY multi-million-buck web sites. If you believe ANYTHING any web site has to say about how they handle transaction money, I have a bridge for you to buy. Just because a site says they do something doesn’t mean they do anything like that.
No site is going to come out and say: “Our security practices are ridiculously bad, but go ahead and take a chance anyway. Who knows, you may get what you ordered.”
The stuff I have seen BIG-DEAL web sites do with CC numbers and your supposedly “secure” data would curl your hair. Nah, forget curl. It would cause your hair to stand straight up and fall out. It’s not so much that they’re crooks, it’s just that they don’t care. I have seen many many sites where just about anyone in the organization — from page designers to ad staff — can easily DIRECTLY access all CC info.
I know. I know. Who is this ubehebe guy? He’s probably making it all up. All I can say is that I’m not making it up.
Paypal is pretty foolproof because they prevent merchants from seeing your CC info, BUT people forget that it’s easy for any employee with a rudimentary understanding of various shopping carts to scrape your PP info as it is submitted, ending up with your PP account name and password, all they need to efectively drain your account. Fortunately, PP has a crack fraud team who immediately flags any strange account activity and can trace it back to the offending site. However, the crooks can keep a low profile and drain a few accounts here and there and escape detection pretty well.
Still, I think, PP is the safest online payment method. And because PP is the defacto online payment standard, if a site doesn’t take PP, there is a reason for that, and that reason is NOT good. They either got PP cut off or PP wouldn’t let them use PP. In other words, they were ripping people off in some way. PP wants to make money too. It’s not exactly easy to get bounced outta PP.
I took the chance and ordered the light, but I think people should be aware of the risk and go into it knowing that 6 months from now, their CC could end up filled with weird charges. You’re right, if you reserve one low-balance CC for online purchases, you’re pretty safe.