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I love this product, but can we discuss if this is bad pratice
2 points by biturd on Nov 26, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments
[Here is a screen-shot where you can enter your email address](http://i.imgur.com/BaWAubA.png?1) and find out what is going on with your order.

If you were to enter in a valid email address of someone who did order something, they give up a ton more data. I personally like the notion of having an entire account control panel for your users, one section being shipping where you can spell all this out.

Right now, I know someone, not personally, but someone pretty high up at google.com that has ordered one of these on a whim. I would also estimate, that if the product was backed by VC or Angels, this person would not have had to order one, but a box of 10 would have been and delivered to his whatever his location was at the time.



Email address seems to be a too low barrier. At least one other piece of information, e.g. order number, zip code would help. Ideally though, if the website wants to avoid user registration and/or passwords, it should send the information via email or send a link with a random long URL. Of course that looses convenience (waiting for email, maybe switching apps on a smartphone) but you avoid registration.


I see this as a bad thing to do. They should require either the order # only or BOTH email and order #.


Seems bad. Generally you don't want to release out information like that, no.


can an admin fix my bad .md for the url then delete this comment. Also, an explanation as to what I dud wrong as this is how I do .md on Stack and other sites, reddit, it always works fine.


Markdown isn't really supported on HN, just a couple of options outlined here: https://hackernews.hn/formatdoc




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