"Stu Gotts" wrote in message ...

Your statement was that credit cards get randomly rejected at times,
and my reply was a nice way to say "bull****". If the reader is dirty
or the card has been demagnetized, it won't work. If you call or
punch a number in, they will not get randomly rejected. If the card
was good (as it appeared in this instance) the operator made a
mistake.

Random is probably a bad word, hardly anything is trully random.
But cards on an uncompromiesed, good standing account do get
declined for stupid assed security reasons that are unrelated to the
current transaction.