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Very Bad Service F--

Posted July 7, 2013 11.4k views
I have to say.......singing up for DO was a total disaster. Fix you workflow. Asking for my ID, the sending in my ID the asking for another "USA Identification" screams a totally untrained offshore support center. Two hours dealing with support and still noting being able to sign up with a Bank of America CC? Are you kidding me? Have courtesy and stop wasting peoples time. There is now way DO can handle a HA stack if one can even sign up. Maybee for a small blog but wow...trying to compare to lindode or aws.........give me a break...................... Really.........totally bad service
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davidmontgomery July 7, 2013
PS....and asking for a passport? are you kidding me? What is the percentage of Americans that have a passport. Although I have ....nonetheless........\

Then per the below...they told me to add a photo as an attachment and then now I cant add a photo. Then I am asked to use the below service? I mean come on.......are you kidding me? So...its clear that you are cheaper because DO has the lowest bidder for tech support.






There has been a response to your ticket:

Hello

Can you please provide your identification using a service such as http://imgur.com

We are unable to view email attachments, and you will need to use a URL to host the picture of your license.

Let us know

Thank you
Support








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russ128985 July 7, 2013
Greetings,

Thank you for your updates. I've just provided an additional update with regard to the issue's you're encountering, and hope you're able to resolve this issue shortly.

If we may be of any further assistance in the interim, please do let us know.

Regards,
Russell Mitchell | Support Team
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davidmontgomery July 7, 2013
Get gets worse.

Really...the expectation that the ID of an address must match the address of my business?

Again....the stupidity never ends.......This is so bad I will have to make a dedicated blog.






It does appear that you may have your credit card under another address.

Please double check the address on the card and use that one, it looks like it's not the Hawaii address.

You can try it once, and if it doesn't work, respond to this ticket and we'll double check the reason for decline.

Let us know
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russ128985 July 7, 2013
Greetings,

I do not believe that copying the text from your support ticket to this public Q&A Forum is a reasonable response to the issue(s) you're encountering.

This area is intended to be a Q&A Community Forum, and using it in this way to publicize your satisfaction with our support staff does not seem fitting for the goals of this community space.

Please continue to correspond with me via your open ticket, so we can work to resolve the issue(s) you're encountering.

I appreciate your understanding and cooperation.

Regards,
Russell Mitchell | Support Team
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davidmontgomery July 7, 2013
Now I get its because I did not enter my address correct. I think, after 15+ of entering the address of my biz I would get it correct. Called my bank..not problem with my card. I know my address. The rest of the world has no problems charging my card. I have a merchant account for my biz. Whew! Thank god I dont have this problem
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georgeappiah July 17, 2013
Never had any such issue, but I'm seriously surprised and somewhat disappointed that DO support should ask prospective clients to upload their identification documents to a PUBLIC photo-sharing site like imgur. Really?
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kamaln7 July 17, 2013
@george: Imgur isn't a public photo-sharing site by default. Only those with the URL can access the image.
If you choose to submit your image to the gallery, it will be displayed on the front page. By default, it will be private/unlisted.
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fromreddit July 16, 2014

As a developer of an app that crawls imgur for available and hidden images, please refrain from using imgur to upload any personally identifiable information. Also..

AN IMAGE CAN NEVER BE SECRET.

from:
http://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/201746817-Image-and-album-privacy-explained-

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asb July 16, 2014

This old question seems to be receiving some attention today, so I wanted to provide an update. To be clear, DigitalOcean does not ask anyone to upload scans of their IDs to imgur.

Occasionally we ask customers who have set off our abuse filters to verify their accounts. This is done by emailing us scans of their ID. We agree that asking anyone for ID isn’t an ideal situation, but unfortunately we deal with a large amount of abusive and fraudulent signups. The vast majority of customers will never need to provide any ID.

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cosmigo July 16, 2014

We point customers to http://myface.in - simply switch off posting to the frontpage when you post your webcam capture and just give them link from there.

It’s an easy WebRTC Photo (high res) and GIF capture (240p) in one which is nice for ID'ing customers holding ID passport or whatever. After the ID, simply delete the capture.

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