"Kyle Boatright" wrote in message t...

It ain't that hard to get Jim Irwin on the phone. You should try it
instead of airing dirty laundry in this forum. Especially since credit cards
get randomly rejected from time to time, based on any number of glitches in
the systems that span the distance between the card reader and the credit
card company.

Tell me about it. Three times in the last three months, I've had security alerts
on my account. One time was that Margy's ISP has been submitting charges
with an expired expiration date for the past 6 months and VISA finally caught on
and started rejecting them. But in addition to rejecting the bogus ISP charges,
they also started rejecting other charges. Never mind trying to call me to see
if my card was lost or otherwise compromised, just shut the blasted thing down.
The other times seem to be a lot of errors induced by (they claim) a damaged
stripe that trips some threshold after it happens enough times. Of course, again
they just shut off the card (at least one time they did try to call me). Of course,
it was only last week that they admitted it was probably a damaged card and
they might consider sending me another.

I understand all but the "surly" part.