Aircraft Spruce and Jim Irwin

"Kyle Boatright" wrote:


"Stu Gotts" wrote in message
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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"

"Stu Gotts" wrote in message
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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.



ACS uses a system that not only does the authorization as the normal swipe
system does but also matches the Bill To information (Numbers in the Street
Address, Zip Code and maybe Phone number) to what the card company has in
their records. No Match/No Authorization.

With Debit cards many banks don't release that info to the system so you get
a refused card.

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.

For me, I don't care what the problem is, if someone, *especially*
someone I'm trying to give business to, acts like a jerk, the business
goes elsewhere.

As for airing dirty laundry, I took it as letting others know of a
problem. I would do the same, just so that others might be warned if
there is a continuing pattern of 'surliness.'

Of course, I'd *also* make sure whoever's in charge hears about it
directly.
--
David Hill
david at hillREMOVETHISfamily.org
Sautee-Nacoochee, GA, USA

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On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 10:11:24 -0400, "Larry Smith"
wrote:


Y'all not taking debit card purchases any more?


Just an opinion here I feel compelled to sha I *never* use a debit
card for online purchases, or mail-order purchases either, since the
same computer system is generally used by the vendor for both, and
being a computer & network-security kind of guy, I must always assume
that any computer system that is not run by myself must be too easily
hackable to be trusted with my debit card account number. The only
place I ever use my debit card is at the one ATM machine at my bank. I
just consider it too risky to use freely elsewhere.

If some evildoer fraudulently uses your debit card number it may be
possible for them to suck large amounts of money out of your account
before anyone notices, and you may be liable for up to $500 of the
loss instead of $50 as with a credit card, unless you report the
unauthorized activity within two days.

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.

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.