Computer and WEB site issues earlier!!!

Went to look up some parts on JD's webs site. IT would not let me in saying I had to update my login information. So I jump through fifteen hoops for JD's site to tell me that they had sent the "updated" login information to my email. This is after maybe ten minutes of fooling around with the stupid site to get it to accept anything I would use as a pass word.

So I have to go into my Yahoo email. Guess what. THEY wanted me to update my user and password information too. So I jump through more hoops. Then it would not complete it without a PH0NE number!!!! Supposedly so Yahoo could text me in the event I have trouble accessing my account. Yea RIGHT!!!! Another example of Corporate communism to me. Well I hope the information help line for my area code has fun when Yahoo calls them. LOL

I am sure as HE77 not giving my phone number to YAHOO.

So after about a half an hour I am able to login to the JD parts webs site. They really improved that!!! (SARCASUME ALERT!!!) Now it only takes THREE EXTRA steps to get logged in. Nice job JD web designers!!!!

Shakespeare's "Kill all the lawyers" needs to be amended to include all WEB designers and computer programmers!!!

Just about the time I get to where I can used a site or program they change it for the "better". It amazes me that the "better" is always longer/slower than what was there to start with.

Maybe not directly related to J.D. or Yahoo but at web sites in general.

the "better" may always be longer and slower than what was to start with but is it safer.

While you may never know how close you came to "identity theft" because said web site took the foresight to prevent it; if it ever happens to you; you will thank the longer and slower than what was to start with but is it safer web designer.

I had the same trouble a while ago. My local John Deere dealer me a phone number to call. I called it some computer guy got me going in a few minutes.
The trouble I had today is like you say. Now it seems there are few more steps to get to a parts catalog.
I still would rathor look at a real parts catalog. But, those days are gone. One thing I do like is checking stock, price, and ordering.
Our local dealer is now part of a six store chain. The majority of parts needed are not stocked. If you can not wait for a stock order you have to pay freight and some other charge.
The only good thing is you do not have to burn gas and time going there to get a part that is probably not stockted.

John, I am pretty well protected from "identity theft".

1) I do not have any credit cards.

2) The debt card I do have is on an account that only has a small amount of money in it.

3) NONE of my major bank accounts can be accessed from the internet. The biggest account, I have to be at the bank and PERSONALLY Sign for any thing to do with it.

4) I have a credit score of almost zero. I have not borrowed money , long term, on anything but land for years.

I understand that they are thinking they are "protecting" me. Well I am pretty sure I will do that better then they can.

Have a good week!!!

Yahoo recently tightened up its requirements for passwords. The new requirements are a pain, but I understand why they had to do it. There are a lot of people out there who are highly motivated to crack into your accounts and do bad things.

I don't like giving out my cell number for password resets, but in the cases where I have done so I've usually been glad I did. For accounts I only use every few years (like Craigslist), it's easier to just request a password reset every time I use the account rather than try to keep track of all the passwords. In the case of Yahoo, I've never had them use that number for anything other than password resets, although I agree it can be very valuable information for them. But if you don't trust them with your cell number, should you really be using Yahoo for your email?

Not to mention all of 'their' security breeches that give away all of our information! joe-

Just like the engineers who are working to improve emissions caused by internal combustion engines.
They all graduated from the same school of thought. Practicality is a dirty word in their little world.
Loren, the Acg.

Seems now days they want more info from you to "make you safer", but then when they lose the info to some hacker, that's just more of your info out there for someone to use. Like the old saying, a lock does nothing but keep an honest man honest. There are folks out there that will take all the time it takes to get through all of their security, just to see if it can be done, and because they can. In the end we're no safer than we were to start with, and now just have even more personal info out there for someone to take and use as they see fit.

That said, if you've got to pay for parts on the site, who cares if someone else accesses your online account to order parts too? Granted I can understand if you have an open account, but having things in place like a shipping address that can't be changed without a personal visit, not having a card on file/open account, etc and just paying as you go, is all the deterent needed. I mean seriously, who would access your account and pay for parts only to have them sent to you? Not much call for, or problems with, at least not that I have heard, criminals hacking into a JD, or any other brand, parts site....Or maybe it is a huge problem and they actually need parts to fix all of the tractors they have stolen...I don't know.....

You may be required to enter something in each field, but most times it does not have to be correct if you don't want to provide it.

Some people setup multiple accounts to limit their exposure. They have separate accounts for: business; for personal; and one or more low exposure accounts for general online things that don't really matter.

My yahoo email has "suggested" that I update my password and on the next page "suggested" that I give them my phone number for the past month or so.

But every time I"ve logged into my email there has always been an option to click "no thanks" or "not now" or something for both the new password and the phone number, so I"ve been able to skip doing that and continue onto my yahoo email account without updating anything.

hey don't go killing all of us, we're not ALL bad!

(I'm a software developer by trade)