http://blog.klaws.org/articles/2006/11/15/international-credit-card-transactions en-us 40 the intriguing Mr Crichton-Seager's blog <p><img src="/files/needle.jpg" align="right" />Today I tried to book a ticket to go and see <a href="http://www.decemberists.com/">The Decemberists</a> in Seattle using the Ticketmaster Web site. Everything went fine until I tried to pay for the e-ticket using my credit card issued in the UK. Lo and behold I am obliged to choose my State from a selection of US States and enter my Zip code.</p> <p>This seems pretty silly since the ticket would not even be physically delivered. Given that making credit transactions in the US is ridiculously easy - my signature hasn't been checked once in the last month - it's amazing that the Web is so unaccommodating.</p> <p>Bad Web design is one of my pet peeves. All Web sites should be location agnostic given the global nature of the internet. Ticketmaster have a UK presence, but the events on the <a href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/">US site</a> don't show on the <a href="http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/">UK site</a>. Seems the only way I can see the show is turn up on the night and <em>hope</em>.</p> Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:28:00 +0000 urn:uuid:cc7cce70-4b18-460e-81e5-0418b421a105 Kat Crichton http://blog.klaws.org/articles/2006/11/15/international-credit-card-transactions Music Work Travel http://blog.klaws.org/articles/trackback/53