[ILUG] IBM Laptop

[Justin Mason]

Nick Murtagh writes:
> Gareth Eason wrote:
> >     Dabs appear to be fine right up until the point at which anything in
> > your order goes wrong (be it non-delivery, late delivery, faulty
> > components delivered, the wrong order delivered to you, etc.) After that
> 
> Actually it's worse - the last time I tried to order they inflicted a
> retarded "security" check on me. Despite having ordered lots of stuff
> from them in the past. They wouldn't ship the order till I did whatever
> it was they wanted.

This happened to me too.  It's the "Verified By VISA" check, which is
something imposed by Visa, via the banks, on online sellers.  Previously,
it was optional, and possible to avoid it, but it seems that UK vendors
are now *required* to perform this by the UK banks.  Absolutely pointless,
of course, and very annoying.  Ah well, that's another password to
add to the list...

--j.