Really just wanted to say...

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...what a frustrating situation it is to basket up £2600 worth of equipment, and have a single question about a product which you want to ask on the forum, but have to wait twelve hours for someone to manually authorise the account you registered specifically to ask the question. So infuriating after spending a good few days mulling over and finalising my purchase, only to be thwarted seconds before committing.

Seriously, what is the practical benefit of restricting people from being able to register an account and post immediately, like you can almost everywhere else on the Internet?

What I did in the interim is empty my basket, purchase everything on ***** instead, and used my freshly authorised account to ask how many others there are like me who do the same.

I'll tell you that in a world of increasingly shrinking options as far as shopping goes, it feels good to be able to vote with my money and take my custom elsewhere.

Cheers m'dears.

John
 
Maybe 80% of the forums on the internet use the account activation process to stop spam bots and duplicate accounts from being registered. Were you in such a hurry you couldn't wait 12 hours to splash 2600? lol

Congrats on your purchase... :rolleyes:
 
Hi

Sorry about the delay in authorising your account, however the reason for the delay is fairly simple.
The forums have a manual new user authorisation to try and prevent spammers, that means one of the administrators has to sit down and go through the new user list (which we try to do several times a day, but if admins are away it can take a day or so).

The delay is unfortunately the price paid to have a forum where instead of dozens of spammers getting in posting pornographic images and links to forged ID's, we might get one or two a week who get through.
 
Post counts don't accrue posts from this particular subforum :)
They don't?! Damn. I'll have to keep contributing to the forum for that free post. I reckon I'll get there by the time I buy my next system. Haha

Regarding the original post... Overclockers have a support ticket system outside the forum plus you can ring them. Pick up the phone man!
 
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