"T o d d P a t t i s t" wrote in message
I had a gas pump that couldn't read my card. It said
something like "Slide card through slot quickly," which is
what I did on the second attempt. It still failed. Needing
gas, I ran the card through again, with another failure. I
gave up, went down the street and bought gas at the next
station, figuring the reader was bad. Apparently, the three
attempts looked suspicious, and they shut my card down with
their automatic fraud detection software. My wife and I
both had declines before we figured it out.

If it failed to read your card, how did it know it was YOUR card?

One of the first times I used a self-service avgas pump, the damn machine
just flat out would not accept my card (AMEX). I swiped it about six or
seven times and it kept coming back NOT VALID or something.

I was really starting to lose my temper (you folks DO realize I have a
temper, don't you? Good.) when I looked at the card and noticed...it was my
drivers license, not my AMEX card.

Opps!


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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO