On 2021-02-25 at 20:10 +0100, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote: > I'm not a lawyer, and of course law may differ in different countries, but I > guess that at least in my country it can have something to do whether you are > selling something that can be classified as "consumer goods" or not. > Selling groceries is definitely consumer oriented ;) while eg. selling > aircrafts is definitely not. While selling consumer goods to anonymous > customers is normal, I guess that if you sell an aircraft to an anonymous > customer the authorities might have a lot of doubts about it. For selling an > aircraft probably a contract clearly signed by both parties is required.
I suspect that may have more to do with the amount of money. If the credit card charge was reversed and the customer got away with a bag full of groceries, that may be acceptable, in exchange for the convenience for all other customers, that you aren't interrogating for hours before deciding if it's safe to sell them groceries or not. On the other hand, if the customer disappeared with an aircraft without even paying for it... > I guess the same applies to such things as servers. > Taking a common sense approach, (...) Perhaps, although since there are so many inconsistent laws... :-/ > the ISP that provides your home Internet > connection usually won't provide any service without having signed a contract > where you clearly state who you are (the same applies for things like > electricity, water etc.). I wouldn't be so sure. Around here, I don't think it's needed. Not in the sense you mean at least. Technically, they know who you are (you tell them), and there *is* a contract (nowadays generally published on their web page, or you may be sent a copy). Whether the data provided to them is accurate or not is another issue (surely it is, our contract says it must be!), I suspect you could easily sign up under a pen name without them noticing, as long as the payment succeeds.¹ Albeit I admit that may be low in their priority list, since if they have any issue, they should have relatively few problems for locating their users. ¹ And, crazy enough, you can sign up to pay the bills of someone else! Cheers _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
