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From: ix21@sdcc6.UUCP (Strokebusters)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Using charge cards as ID for checks
Message-ID: <1740@sdcc6.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Sep-84 03:09:05 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 17 03:09:05 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Sep-84 13:10:53 EDT
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Organization: Dept. of Neurology, UCSD Medical School
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I remember seeing a posting asking that if present a check and use a
credit card as ID, can the merchant charge against the card if the 
check goes bad.

Some time ago I bought an telephone answering machine using a check
and presented my Visa card and drivers license as ID.  I had later
that the machine did not have the features that the store claim it
had and attempted to return it.  They said forget it, and I stopped
payment on the check.  Later they called about the check and I told
them the machine did not have the features in the advertisement and
the manager who I was not able to speak to before agreed to take the
machine back; it was still in its carton and never used.

Then after I returned the machine they charged the purchase to my
credit card handwriting the number from the back of the check onto
the slip and leaving my signature blank.  When I went back to the
store the manager who took the machine back from me was not
available and once again I had tons of runaround.  What I ultimately
had to do was call up my bank and they reversed the credit charge.
So now I am getting called by the store again with the clerks saying
I have a bad credit card.  My advice is to be careful when you use a
card as identification.  By the way the store is a Tandy Radio
Shack, but please don't start another slew of antiRadio Shack
postings.
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David Whiteman,
Strokebusters @ Veteran's Administration Medical Center, La Jolla
Dept. of Neurology, School of Medicine,
University of California, San Diego