[mooism2]

1. enter e-mail address

2. go to e-mail

3. refresh

4. refresh

5. count to ten... refresh again

6. maybe it's in my spam folder?.. no...

7. final refresh

8. give up in disgust

minutes pass

9. e-mail finally arrives in inbox; delete it

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I effectively use this method to log in to Amazon (I have a habit of always changing my Amazon password to something so secure I can't remember it for more than a minute at a time), and it makes me less likely to log in (I want to add this book to my wishlist, but I have to log in first? Maybe I won't bother then).

To be fair Amazon password reset e-mails are usually in my inbox by the time I switch to my e-mail, but some sites are slower.

[BoppreH]

It's been some time since I saw an email take more than 5 seconds to arrive.

[kristaps]

Might not happen often, but it's a major bummer when it does.

An existing example: when you recover a password for some service you do it because you want to log in NOW, not some time next week.