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From: res@ihuxn.UUCP (Rich Strebendt)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Phone numbers on credit slips?
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Date: Thu, 6-Sep-84 13:56:10 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  6 13:56:10 1984
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| A lot of merchants have started demanding a phone number along with 
| the signature on credit card slips.  ... How do netters feel about 
| publicizing their [possibly unlisted] number?

I tried for a while to refuse to provide the phone number, but that got
to be more and more a pain in the <anatomy>.  At a local K-Mart the
clerk at the register had to call one of the security people over to
get an OK to omit the phone number!  So, now I give my office phone
number.  I have an answering machine on that line, so if there is a
legitimate reason for the business to call (say, I left my MasterCard
on the counter), then they can get the message to me.  Otherwise I just
fast-forward to the next message on the tape and erase it when I am
done.

					Rich Strebendt
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