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Article #10953Re: Crestar Fingerprinting Assault
From: W.R. Giacona
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 00:00
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Dave Clark wrote: > > Andy Quintana <cynical@clark.net> wrote in article > <5upo33$erk@clarknet.clark.net>... > > What they are doing is applying a condition to doing business with them, > > like asking for id. You certainly don't have to provide the id or the > > print, all you have to do is walk away > > Hmm, curious. What if, as a condition to doing business, I refused to > accept any checks written from any Crestar account, and made this a public > statement in all my advertising and an openly displayed policy in my place > of business. How long would it be before Crestar complained and hit me > with cease and desist orders? > > -- You have every right NOT to take a check from a specific bank or any bank at all. There are several small businesses here that have started refuseing checks from a local S&L because of the number of hot checks from that insitiution. Along the lines of 40% of all the hot checks in my store come from this one bank. This in a town of 25k with 6 or seven banks. -- _______________________________________________________ W.R. "Gig" Giacona Owner,Fairway Liquor wrg@arkansas.net 3311 N. West Ave. wrg@infogo.com El Dorado, AR 71730 http://www.infogo.com/~wrg
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1038e3,bd68304469da4d0a X-Google-Attributes: gid1038e3,public X-Google-Thread: f4d80,bd68304469da4d0a X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d80,public X-Google-Thread: 104271,bd68304469da4d0a X-Google-Attributes: gid104271,public X-Google-Thread: 107518,6a2050cc875c3006 X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,public X-Google-Thread: 101049,bd68304469da4d0a X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public From: "W.R. Giacona" <wrg@arkansas.net> Subject: Re: Crestar Fingerprinting Assault Date: 1997/09/08 Message-ID: <34145967.174C@arkansas.net> X-Deja-AN: 270865377 References: <5ujs1c$i1t3@beaker.nit.gwu.edu> <3410612B.F7F@ix.netcom.com> <5upo33$erk@clarknet.clark.net> <01bcbc8c$c63c1180$13cddd80@nelson.webo.dg.com> To: Dave Clark <Dave_Clark@dg.com> Organization: X-No-Archive: Yes Newsgroups: misc.consumers,misc.legal,alt.law-enforcement,alt.privacy,dc.general