Just a little storytime about Vinted.
I just wanted to register on Vinted to sell some second-hand stuff, because I haven’t had much success elsewhere. I would have never imaged that they will reject my addy.io alias. After a couple of annoying e-mails detailing how to register an account, I was left with the answer on the screenshot after trying to get an explanation why the domain I am paying for (not some random free gmail address) is not worthy of their services…
The worst part about this is the lack of explanation.
Even if I personally disagreed with their reasoning, I’d appreciate a thought-out, sensible reason, and most likely accept it.
But they’re not even giving you the common courtesy or respect that a simple, clear reason would provide (i.e., “we don’t allow registrations from .io domains, because we see too much hacker shit from that TLD.” Or any explanation, really, would suffice).
“Just because” never sits well with me.
My guess is that the agents answering are also not shared any information why some domains are blocked. I would also think that they have no idea what a domain is. Not the chatbots that answered the first couple of mails. :D
It provides no reliable remedy. Without knowing why this address won’t work, you can never be sure the next will work.
Exactly!