Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
probably because if they get scammed by some scumbag using someone else's credit card, they wear the expense of the CC chargeback. credit card companies and paypal etc screw the merchants.
One solution, implemented by a U.S.-based organization from which I purchase services, is to use the Address Verification System to check the address supplied by the customer against that of the credit card holder. Unfortunately, my bank doesn't seem to support address verification, and since the organization in question required it, the transaction failed. In the end, they had to intervene manually to allow it. Are there legal reasons why Australian banks don't support address verification, and is there any option to enable it at the request of the customer?