🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: misc.consumers
Article #9398

Re: Merchants who ask for ID on credit card purchases

#9398
From: Rod Speed
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:33
40 lines
2680 bytes
Scott in SoCal wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> Scott in SoCal wrote
>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>> krw wrote
>>>>> info_at_1-script_dot_com@foo.com (spendwize.com) wrote

>>>>>> It may be "illegal" - I don't know - but its actually a
>>>>>> protection for you - there's so much credit card fraud these
>>>>>> days, I'd rather the clerks make sure I am whoI say I am.

>>>>> It's a protection for *them*.

>>>> Its protection for both partys.

>>>>> You're not protected by giving the cashier even more information about you.

>>>> Wrong. You're protected by not having a stolen card used.

>>> Heh. You think these pimply-faced, minimum-wage punks
>>> are putting any effort at all into verifying that the person
>>> presenting the card is in fact the owner of that card?

>> Plenty of them do.

> Easy to claim. Hell of a lot harder to actually substantiate that claim.

Cant even manage its own lines. Or anything else at all either.

No surprise that it got the bums rush, right out the door onto its lard arse.

>>> These droids are simply going through the motions. They NEVER check signatures,

>> I've had them do that.

> Easy to claim. Hell of a lot harder to actually substantiate that claim.

Cant even manage its own lines. Or anything else at all either.

No surprise that it got the bums rush, right out the door onto its lard arse.
Technical Details
Message-ID: <796oj5F1phegkU1@mid.individual.net>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
References: <20090607145708.B2DD94E4A5@poisonous.dizum.com> <4a2becff$0$11853$786edd2@news.usenetserver.com> <hdrn25pn15e07b4pe0krv9hmqct5dj1phd@4ax.com> <792gv4F1mdg6hU1@mid.individual.net> <cl6p259u413ag6fn49tu5kod17f6p0lrr2@4ax.com> <793q8rF1odoq5U1@mid.individual.net> <3rrr251unvcr79p9ju47m61vbm80412jr9@4ax.com>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Thread: 7c24651745,80f574b0b2e148d4
X-Google-Attributes: gid7c24651745,public,usenet
X-Google-NewGroupId: yes
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,misc.consumers.frugal-living,co.denver.general
Subject: Re: Merchants who ask for ID on credit card purchases
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:33:23 +1000
Lines: 42
Message-ID: <796oj5F1phegkU1@mid.individual.net>
References: <20090607145708.B2DD94E4A5@poisonous.dizum.com> <4a2becff$0$11853$786edd2@news.usenetserver.com> <hdrn25pn15e07b4pe0krv9hmqct5dj1phd@4ax.com> <792gv4F1mdg6hU1@mid.individual.net> <cl6p259u413ag6fn49tu5kod17f6p0lrr2@4ax.com> <793q8rF1odoq5U1@mid.individual.net> <3rrr251unvcr79p9ju47m61vbm80412jr9@4ax.com>
X-Trace: individual.net GhCEzp8jcFpNUgEtJ+Y5WA4hnvpX2DEEvb4EmQF+fdmrPjZuo=
Cancel-Lock: sha1:f1EveOHxTmqqvYaj4RyI7zDLJDs=
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670
X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670