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From: flake@ncrcae.UUCP (Joe Flake)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Checks and credit cards
Message-ID: <2033@ncrcae.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-May-84 10:22:11 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 17 10:22:11 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 19-May-84 00:57:12 EDT
Organization: NCR, Columbia, SC
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A clerk in a furniture store once told me their reasoning behind asking for
a credit card id when using a check.  If the check bounced, a credit card
billing was submitted with "signature on file" (yep, there it is on the
bad check!) written in on the credit card slip.  (Similar to the "phone
order" written in on telephone orders.)  If the credit card agency would
accept such an order, most people would probably just pay the bill that
way rather than argue about the right or wrong of such a charge.

PS: I have a Master Card which I always use for check id.  The account was
    cancelled when the bank went to an annual fee, but they didn't request
    the card to be returned.  The card itself says it's valid, but it should
    be in the books as a bad card number.

Joe Flake, NCR Corp., W. Columbia, SC
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