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It's not the $7, but the principle

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Re: It's not the $7, but the principle

#11
Does seem like an 'honest' bug. I did what the OP did (except I checked the middle option), and when you then look at the source of the page, it includes

  
  
  
The 'div' that you had checked earliers has an empty 'CHECKED' attribute, while the third one has the 'checked=""' that firefox apparently picks up.

Re: It's not the $7, but the principle

#12
Oh my god, how I hate forms that reset themselves over an error! It's newsletter subscriptions... or the misc textarea... or something... that gets lost when I enter a Canadian post code with the space in the middle. Or without the space in the middle. Both have triggered errors :(

Why can't you people just use Drupal which has a forms system that I have contributed to a lot and it handles rebuilds like this with ease :) ?

Re: It's not the $7, but the principle

#14
post #12

Oh my god, how I hate forms that reset themselves over an error! It's newsletter subscriptions... or the misc textarea... or something... that gets lost when I enter a Canadian post code with the space in the middle. Or without the space in the middle. Both have triggered errors :( Why can't you people just use Drupal which has a forms system that I have contributed to a lot and it handles rebuilds like this with eas…

Because drupal does a lot of other things "interestingly", for example account name and email-validation?

Re: It's not the $7, but the principle

#15
post #3
post #2

This might be subject to a chargeback. After all, they "sold", and charged, you something without your consent, didn't they?

I'm not sure how it is in Finland but here in France it's very difficult to do a chargeback... I tried once for something that was never delivered and my bank blew me off. It's nowhere as easy as in the US. It's not even that that I lost the chargeback, it's that they didn't even let me initiate it.

Your bank has nothing to do with it. You need to contact your credit card company.

(Chargebacks are a credit card thing, the CC company is an intermediary, so you can complain to them about poor service. If you use your bank card to buy things online, then you've paid - and it's between you and the vendor. That's why you should always use a credit card to make online purchases.)

Re: It's not the $7, but the principle

#16
post #12

Oh my god, how I hate forms that reset themselves over an error! It's newsletter subscriptions... or the misc textarea... or something... that gets lost when I enter a Canadian post code with the space in the middle. Or without the space in the middle. Both have triggered errors :( Why can't you people just use Drupal which has a forms system that I have contributed to a lot and it handles rebuilds like this with eas…

I was with you, and was about to upvote, until I saw your "solution" to forms resetting themselves on error was to use Drupal....

Re: It's not the $7, but the principle

#17
post #11

Does seem like an 'honest' bug. I did what the OP did (except I checked the middle option), and when you then look at the source of the page, it includes The 'div' that you had checked earliers has an empty 'CHECKED' attribute, while the third one has the 'checked=""' that firefox apparently picks up.

I mean, if they're going to do everything in ugly inline CSS, it doesn't surprise me that they didn't check to see whether or not the user selection of the subscription reset upon reload.

Re: It's not the $7, but the principle

#18
post #11

Does seem like an 'honest' bug. I did what the OP did (except I checked the middle option), and when you then look at the source of the page, it includes The 'div' that you had checked earliers has an empty 'CHECKED' attribute, while the third one has the 'checked=""' that firefox apparently picks up.

Agree. The author is jumping to conclusions her. Remind me of this great quote:

"Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence" - Napoleon Bonaparte

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