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From: ix21@sdccs6.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Checks and credit cards
Message-ID: <1476@sdccs6.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-May-84 02:34:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: sdccs6.1476
Posted: Wed May 16 02:34:56 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 17-May-84 05:41:20 EDT
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The article 2969@brl-tgr.ARPA asks if you write a check and present
your credit card as ID can the merchant charge the check against
your card if the check is uncollectable.  According to my bank the
answer is no.  A friend of mine who owns a store tried having a
stamp made for the checks he accepts.  He stamps the back of the
check with it and has the customer sign underneath; the stamp says
that the check writer authorizes his credit card to be charged if
the check is uncollectable.  He uses the stamp for shock value only
as his bank won't accept the stamp as authorization to charge the
credit card account.

David