Comments on: Reinventing A Headache http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2007/10/31/reinventing-a-headache/ The meanderings of a black widow... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:26:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Black Widow http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2007/10/31/reinventing-a-headache/#comment-48118 Black Widow Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:25:14 +0000 http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2007/10/31/reinventing-a-headache/#comment-48118 I think that the login details of any account that involves payment will have a higher likelihood of being remembered. It's logins that aren't that can be easily discarded. MySpace, Bebo and Facebook are obvious examples and they're also probably where this particular behaviour is most evident. That said, my business credit cards tend to be issued with a short expiry (the current one only has an 8 month life span for unknown reasons). So, in theory, I could quite easily (and innocently) create a second account with Amazon. Not that I've tried thus far. Frankly, I'd hope that Amazon also carry out checks on names and addresses to reduce the risk of duplicate accounts. That's the route I took recently when setting up a membership system and it did reduce the number of obvious duplicates. I think that the login details of any account that involves payment will have a higher likelihood of being remembered. It’s logins that aren’t that can be easily discarded. MySpace, Bebo and Facebook are obvious examples and they’re also probably where this particular behaviour is most evident.

That said, my business credit cards tend to be issued with a short expiry (the current one only has an 8 month life span for unknown reasons). So, in theory, I could quite easily (and innocently) create a second account with Amazon. Not that I’ve tried thus far. Frankly, I’d hope that Amazon also carry out checks on names and addresses to reduce the risk of duplicate accounts. That’s the route I took recently when setting up a membership system and it did reduce the number of obvious duplicates.

]]> By: Stevie D http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2007/10/31/reinventing-a-headache/#comment-48117 Stevie D Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:03:58 +0000 http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2007/10/31/reinventing-a-headache/#comment-48117 For a lot of sites, there's a big advantage in logging into an existing account rather than creating a new one from scratch every time. It's worth going through the rigmarole of retrieving my old password on Amazon as against having to type in my address and details again. Moreover, some sites - eg those requiring credit card payment - won't let you register two accounts on the same card, so you have no choice but to re-register. Sometimes, I have gone to register on a site, only to be told that I'd already done that several years ago! For a lot of sites, there’s a big advantage in logging into an existing account rather than creating a new one from scratch every time. It’s worth going through the rigmarole of retrieving my old password on Amazon as against having to type in my address and details again. Moreover, some sites - eg those requiring credit card payment - won’t let you register two accounts on the same card, so you have no choice but to re-register.

Sometimes, I have gone to register on a site, only to be told that I’d already done that several years ago!

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