I spent a half hour trying to enter registration infomation including my location. {Walgreens} It kept telling me there were no stores within 50 miles. Two are less than a mile from my office. I eventually went elsewhere to complete what I needed. Is this pure stupidity, laziness or what? This is not an isolated case.
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Posts: 9560 | Location: New Hampshire | Registered: October 29, 2011
Were you using a VPN at the time? Maybe it thought you were somewhere else in the world if you were.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Nope. I have encountered this problem before with other websites. Enter your Zip code and find the nearest store. Some of the stores are half way across the United States.
Posts: 17627 | Location: Stuck at home | Registered: January 02, 2015
I would have tried clearing all the cookies in the browser or a different browser. I checked the Walgreens website from where I'm at and the store locator works from my location. Maybe your internet provider was having issues with it's DNS servers? I'm just trying to think of excuses now.
We frequently have issues with our address on websites. There are address databases which they insist what we enter matches.
USPS does not deliver to physical addresses here, so we must have a PO box. The post office will return to sender anything without the PO box number. Meanwhile, many merchants, but by far not all merchants, use Fedex or UPS who will not deliver to a PO box.
The post office instructs us to have things addressed as: 123 E Maple St, POB 789, town state zip, which covers both options. To complicate it, many streets here are either Upper or Lower.
Well many websites will not accept both a street and PO box. Some need a format for E or East, some want East after Maple and some before, that takes a dozen guesses to get right so it matches their database. Is it Lower or LWR, and does that come before or after East, and before or after Maple?
If I can get to that point they now want the mailing address for my credit card, which will be rejected by the bank if it includes the street, but the merchant doesn't like PO boxes (probably for fraud reasons).
I have abandoned many purchases online.
Posts: 9809 | Location: On the mountain off the grid | Registered: February 25, 2002
Likely a cookie or something in the browser or as said DNS if it couldn't find you a location nearby.
We us Stamps.com, had to change an address today for a major US company for one division to the main office address since they changed routing for that divisions claims handling.
Should be a no brainer, well, Stamps.com said it wasn't a valid address, even though it is a valid address and we have it in the system for the main office.
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Posts: 24510 | Location: Gunshine State | Registered: November 07, 2008
When software development is farmed out to the lowest bidder, either an offshore outfit or a company that uses H1B Visa holders to keep the cost down, the result is likely to be pretty crappy.
Just ask BellSouth what happened when they contracted with Anderson Consulting for software development, and Anderson promptly dropped many of the experienced developers who actually knew what they were doing, and hired a bunch of H1B Visa people at a fraction of the cost. I was there, and can tell you that it was a total train-wreck dumpster-fire disaster.
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Posts: 31599 | Location: Central Florida, Orlando area | Registered: January 03, 2010
Thanks to all that replied. I think I understand the problem to some degree. Not that many years ago I would call a vendor who answered the phone and took my order. In many instances this is more efficient. T Of course you have to pay a human to answer the phone. It got down into thirties the other night and the robot at the gas company said we were the 17th caller. Really???
Posts: 17627 | Location: Stuck at home | Registered: January 02, 2015
How far we have come! Robots running websites asking us to prove we are not robots. ALL IS LOST!
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Posts: 7338 | Location: Arkansas | Registered: November 06, 2010
