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From: kolling@decwrl.DEC.COM (Karen Kolling)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: check guarantee cards
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Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 00:19:57 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 24 00:19:57 1986
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It's been my experience that in New England personal checks
are almost never accepted by merchants.  In Calif., a driver's
license and a "major credit card" makes a personal check
acceptable virtually every place.  (Also, I have the vague
impression that there's now some sort of instantaneous credit check
available by phone, keyed on the driver's license number, in many
places that I shop;  but this is just based on random impressions
I've gotten when I'm standing around with my mind shut off in a
checkout line.)