Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site h-sc1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!h-sc1!desjardins From: desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Amex card fees Message-ID: <441@h-sc1.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 11:44:36 EDT Article-I.D.: h-sc1.441 Posted: Fri Jul 12 11:44:36 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 14:33:28 EDT References: <1605@orca.UUCP> <3967@alice.UUCP> Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center Lines: 13 > > AmEx REQUIRES that you get the customer's signature, hence no > > AmEx telephone orders. > > I know of several merchants that will take American Express phone orders. AmEx definitely takes phone orders. A few months back, somebody got hold of my husband's card number (off a carbon, I guess, now we're very careful about that!). They charged $800 of balloons and flowers through mail-orders! (I believe, though, that except for these things and maybe a few others, anything you mail-order has to be sent to your home address.) marie desjardins park