Sites where the password instructions are wrong – never login
Posted by testcrunch on 6th May 2009
I often come upon sites where you have to create a username and password. I have just been to a site which wanted just that information and I had a devil of a job creating the account as it wouldn’t except my password.
It said that the password had to have at least one capital letter, at least one number, and in total it must be at least 6 characters long. I tried with one capital letter, a further five characters and finally two digits. That combination does satisfy their description, but it didn’t work. I then tried six capital letters followed by two digits. Nope, that didn’t work either. Then I tried six capital letters followed by one number, and that did work. How many people would have just given up after the first attempt. Do these companies realise how much business they probably lose just because propsective account holders can’t generate valid passwords due to the web site instructions being wrong.
I know the response you’d get from these guys if you somehow managed to talk to them about this. They’d probably say something like ‘well if you can’t figure out how to generate a username and password so you can’t even login then maybe you aren’t the kind of person we’re after’.
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