Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!ihuxl!essachs From: essachs@ihuxl.UUCP (Ed Sachs) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Using charge cards as ID for checks Message-ID: <1365@ihuxl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 09:26:36 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxl.1365 Posted: Wed Sep 19 09:26:36 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 09:02:51 EDT References: <1740@sdcc6.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 15 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> This experience of having them try to charge your credit card for the stopped check shows the advantage of using the credit card in the first place. When you buy something with a credit card and then have trouble with the store/mail order house/etc., you can go to the credit card issuer, and they MUST resolve the problem for you (by federal law). This clout has come in handy in the past when mail order houses did not believe in refunding discounts and handling charges on merchandise which was lost or damaged in shipment. -- Ed Sachs AT&T Bell Laboratories Naperville, IL ihnp4!ihuxl!essachs