{"id":93,"date":"2009-09-29T11:02:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T10:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pgregg.com\/wp\/2009\/09\/amazon-1-0-waterstones-aka-this-mornings-rant\/"},"modified":"2009-09-29T11:02:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T10:02:59","slug":"amazon-1-0-waterstones-aka-this-mornings-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/amazon-1-0-waterstones-aka-this-mornings-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon 1 – 0 Waterstones, aka this morning’s rant."},"content":{"rendered":"

SWMBO asked me to order a book for her this morning, so being the tightwad that I am, I go hunting for the ISBN and the cheapest place to buy it.
Amazon has it for \u00a317.24 and Waterstone’s for \u00a318.49 (but if I order through quidco<\/a>, then I receive another 8% cashback, making Waterstone’s cheaper).<\/p>\n

Waterstone’s need me to create an account, fair enough and state “Also, please be aware that passwords are case sensitive, and must be a
\nminimum of seven characters long and at least one character must be
\nnumeric.”  Again, all fairly standard.<\/p>\n

So each time I try to enter a password which meets this criteria I’m hit with a javascript popup that claims: “Your new password must be at least 7 characters long and contain at least one digit.”<\/p>\n

“But it is!”, I yell in frustration.<\/p>\n

Using the Firefox “Web Developer” plugin I unhide the password boxes and see that my password doesn’t have digits… wtf!   I enter the digits again and find there is another hidden rule:<\/p>\n

<input<\/span> name<\/span>=\"newPassword\" <\/span>type<\/span>=\"password\"
<\/span>id<\/span>=\"fPassword\" <\/span>size<\/span>=\"40\" <\/span>maxlength<\/span>=\"16\" <\/span>value<\/span>=\"\" <\/span>\/<\/span><\/span>>
<\/pre>\n
Yes, an upper limit of 16 characters on the password.<\/p>\n
Right ok, make a password of 16 chars or under and move on…<\/p>\n
Add name, postcode to the next form and it finds my address ok – click continue to (I presume) proceed to the CC entry form and voila!<\/p>\n
Well not quite.<\/p>\n
“There has been a problem processing this request
\n
Please use the refresh button on your browser to try again.<\/p>\n
Thank you.”<\/p>\n
A few refreshes later, it is apparent that Waterstone’s has no intention of working, sod it, for 20p more I can have less hassle at Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SWMBO asked me to order a book for her this morning, so being the tightwad that I am, I go hunting for the ISBN and the cheapest place to buy it.Amazon has it for \u00a317.24 and Waterstone’s for \u00a318.49 (but if I order through quidco, then I receive another 8% cashback, making Waterstone’s cheaper). Waterstone’s … <\/p>\n
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