Aircraft Spruce and Jim Irwin

"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.

"Kyle Boatright" wrote:


"Stu Gotts" wrote in message
.. .
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:03:07 GMT, "Kyle Boatright"
wrote:

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.

That's news to me, and yes, I accept credit cards in my business
daily! Maybe Mrs. Hitler made a mistake so an authorization wasn't
possible.



You've never accidentally rejected a card or had a personal card mistakenly
rejected? I can think of at least 3 times in my life (once at a gas pump
last weekend) when a viable card has been rejected.

KB

For me, it was last Monday. Free pass to the movies after it declined
one credit card (that was current) and two debit cards (on accounts
with adequate balances) and the theater manager's card. Unfortunately,
the concession stand accepted them, so no free food.
--
Alex
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("alexy" wrote)
For me, it was last Monday. Free pass to the movies after it declined
one credit card (that was current) and two debit cards (on accounts
with adequate balances) and the theater manager's card. Unfortunately,
the concession stand accepted them, so no free food.

At Christmas time, cards will get rejected if too many purchases have been
made in X time period. We'd see it all-the-time at my friend's Play-It-Again
Sports store. 2 out of 3 rejections were for that reason. We figured it out,
after a while, that number of uses (in a short time) was more important than
$ amount - in disqualifying a card.

Movies (and concession stand) on credit cards? :-)

I'm torn. Going to movies ...very good. Credit card ...bad.

--
Montblack
"I like to watch"

"Montblack" wrote:

("alexy" wrote)
For me, it was last Monday. Free pass to the movies after it declined
one credit card (that was current) and two debit cards (on accounts
with adequate balances) and the theater manager's card. Unfortunately,
the concession stand accepted them, so no free food.

At Christmas time, cards will get rejected if too many purchases have been
made in X time period. We'd see it all-the-time at my friend's Play-It-Again
Sports store. 2 out of 3 rejections were for that reason. We figured it out,
after a while, that number of uses (in a short time) was more important than
$ amount - in disqualifying a card.

Movies (and concession stand) on credit cards? :-)

I'm torn. Going to movies ...very good. Credit card ...bad.

Agreed. But now for "The Rest of the Story (TM)":

The ATM was "unable to dispense cash at this time"
One of the debit cards I tried was on another bank, but the bank whose
ATM I tired may have been the bank of the theater Co, which might
explain things.
--
Alex
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"Montblack" wrote in message ...

Movies (and concession stand) on credit cards? :-)

It has the advantage that you can avoid the gum chewing disinterested teenager
selling the cash tickets (and the inherent line) and pop right up to the ATM-like
ticket vending machine (it's also the way you claim your tickets when you purchase
them online in advance of getting to the theatre).

In article , Neal wrote:
I keep one dedicated credit card for use exclusively for online and
mail order purchases and use it for nothing else, and try to exercise
restraint in keeping the balance paid off every month.

I've got a CitiCard, and they offer 'one-time-only' credit card numbers.
You just log onto the web site (or use their application), and it'll give
you an account number that's valid for one use, with an expiration date
one month away. It's great for online purchases.

The only time it doesn't work is with things like pizza delivery, where
you need to show a card to the driver, since the numbers won't match.

Tina Marie

Tina Marie wrote in
:

I've got a CitiCard, and they offer 'one-time-only' credit card numbers.
You just log onto the web site (or use their application), and it'll give
you an account number that's valid for one use, with an expiration date
one month away. It's great for online purchases.

American Express has offered this for quite a while. The only problem I've
run into is their poor server response sometimes when I'm trying to get a
number; the expiration month given is for the current month. I agree that
it's a boon for online purchases.

--
John Godwin
Silicon Rallye Inc.

What kills me is when MBNA puts the alert on my AOPA card because there is
$500 charged at three different airports 800nm apart. It almost has to be
me! In addition, the only thing EVER charged on that card is fuel purchases
between $400 and $800.

Mike
MU-2


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"Kyle Boatright" wrote in
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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.

I don't think that anybody else is referring to card readers being unable to
read the card as "rejecting the transaction. What people are talking about
is when the credit card company rejects the transaction based on some arcane
formula designed to prevent unauthorized misuse.

Mike
MU-2


"Stu Gotts" wrote in message
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On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 00:06:03 GMT, "Kyle Boatright"
wrote:


"Stu Gotts" wrote in message
.. .
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:03:07 GMT, "Kyle Boatright"
wrote:

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.

That's news to me, and yes, I accept credit cards in my business
daily! Maybe Mrs. Hitler made a mistake so an authorization wasn't
possible.



You've never accidentally rejected a card or had a personal card
mistakenly
rejected? I can think of at least 3 times in my life (once at a gas pump
last weekend) when a viable card has been rejected.

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.

No, but if you took the time to read the original (and earlier)
message(s), the poster said the card was rejected, then he made the
purchase from another vendor with the same card a few minutes later.
That morphed into how this card could have actually been rejected, and
not some theoretical, in this instance "arcane formula designed to
prevent unauthorized misuse" (I guess as opposed to authorized misuse,
like our wives do).



On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:23:08 GMT, "Mike Rapoport"
wrote:

I don't think that anybody else is referring to card readers being unable to
read the card as "rejecting the transaction. What people are talking about
is when the credit card company rejects the transaction based on some arcane
formula designed to prevent unauthorized misuse.

Mike
MU-2


"Stu Gotts" wrote in message
.. .
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 00:06:03 GMT, "Kyle Boatright"
wrote:


"Stu Gotts" wrote in message
.. .
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:03:07 GMT, "Kyle Boatright"
wrote:

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.

That's news to me, and yes, I accept credit cards in my business
daily! Maybe Mrs. Hitler made a mistake so an authorization wasn't
possible.



You've never accidentally rejected a card or had a personal card
mistakenly
rejected? I can think of at least 3 times in my life (once at a gas pump
last weekend) when a viable card has been rejected.

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.