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Geek Culture / Suggestion for order history

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JerBil
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Posted: 20th Mar 2007 04:54
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Now that TGC has added a link for activation numbers, how about including the e-mail address used for each order, since some of
us have used more than one e-mail and it can be forgotten with time.

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Posted: 20th Mar 2007 04:56
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Yes.. But their would possibly have to enforce more security. Nice suggestion, I'd vote for it!

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Lost in Thought
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Posted: 20th Mar 2007 10:43
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Or only allow people to use 1 email address. I've had this one for like 8 years.

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Van B
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Posted: 20th Mar 2007 10:46
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The orders and activation codes are linked to your profiles email address - if you use more than one email addy when ordering, then you'd have to have done it with 2 seperate accounts.


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JerBil
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Posted: 20th Mar 2007 14:40
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Quote: "The orders and activation codes are linked to your profiles email address - if you use more than one email addy when ordering, then you'd have to have done it with 2 seperate accounts."


Yes, but I've changed my e-mail at TGC several times, and they have been good enough to associate my latest one with my account.

It would still be possible for the e-mail for each purchase to be a part of the record shown in my order history, I would think.

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Van B
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Posted: 20th Mar 2007 15:39
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You'd only think that if you'd had no experience with databases, no offence.

I can certainly see why tracking multiple email addresses for an account would cause problems. Rather than storing the email address, it would need a table of email addresses, that's another link, and the whole infrastructure would have to be changed to allow for this extra data. By using a single email address you have decent security, and a decent control over the user for tracking and authorisation. Changing this address is one thing, but changing the whole system to allow multiple addresses is the sort of thing making database coders bald. Seems like such a little thing, but it's really a can of wriggly SQL worms that'll take your hand off as soon as look at you .


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JerBil
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Posted: 20th Mar 2007 17:40
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I'm only suggesting a text entry like the Order Date when the purchase is made, not tracking multiple addresses.

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