What you describe is a typical scenario. What Jay was responding to was the
hold of just one dollar.

The only reason I can think of is that they are trying to verify the card
but be nice and not put a large pre-auth on the card. Sounds like a win-win
to me.

Maybe my bank is just very good, but I have never noticed a large pre-auth
surviving beyond the real purchase. It's more frequent that the pump won't
take my debit card at all.

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Travis
Lake N3094P
PWK

"Brien K. Meehan" wrote in message
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Jay Honeck wrote:
There must be more going on here.

There is.

When you start the transaction, one of the questions most self-serve
aviation fuel pumps is "How many gallons?"

Many pilots enter a high number. Let's say, 50. This makes sense -
you want to get enough fuel.

The pre-authorization is then charged at 50 gallons times the cost per
gallon - about $200 at my local pump.