Re: Credit Cards

2009-10-14 Thread Philip Potter
2009/10/13 David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 02:21:14PM +0100, Philip Potter wrote: wth? I call bullshit on play.com. If the card company will pay, it's none of play.com's business whether you are creditworthy or not. play.com gets the money and the credit card

Re: Credit Cards

2009-10-14 Thread Avleen Vig
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Abigail abig...@abigail.be wrote: The problem is the protocol between the retailer and the banks. There are differences in different countries. So you cannot use your ATM card for retail payment outside of your country. But this is going to change by the end of

Re: Credit Cards

2009-10-14 Thread Avleen Vig
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Robert Shiels rob...@se71.org wrote: further to recent discussions, I think there are people here who might be able to give me and  answer to a question I have that I can't fine through browsing. I tried to buy something through play.com last week, and they

Re: Credit Cards

2009-10-14 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 14 Oct 2009, at 21:07, Avleen Vig wrote: Here in the US, when you place a credit card order online, you almost always have to give the phone number associated with the credit card account, and that is definitely verified by the CC company / bank. I see no problem with this really. As

Re: Credit Cards

2009-10-14 Thread David Cantrell
Avleen Vig wrote: Here in the US, when you place a credit card order online, you almost always have to give the phone number associated with the credit card account, and that is definitely verified by the CC company / bank. I see no problem with this really. How the hell am I meant to know

Re: Credit Cards

2009-10-14 Thread the hatter
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Avleen Vig wrote: Here in the US, when you place a credit card order online, you almost always have to give the phone number associated with the credit card account, and that is definitely verified by the CC company / bank. I see no problem with this really. Of course,

Re: Credit Cards

2009-10-14 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 08:39:32PM +, the hatter wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Avleen Vig wrote: Here in the US, when you place a credit card order online, you almost always have to give the phone number associated with the credit card account, and that is definitely verified by the CC

Re: Credit Cards

2009-10-14 Thread Abigail
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 01:10:39PM -0700, Avleen Vig wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Abigail abig...@abigail.be wrote: The problem is the protocol between the retailer and the banks. There are differences in different countries. So you cannot use your ATM card for retail payment

Re: Credit Cards

2009-10-14 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Oct 14, 2009, at 13:39, the hatter wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Avleen Vig wrote: Here in the US, when you place a credit card order online, you almost always have to give the phone number associated with the credit card account, and that is definitely verified by the CC company / bank. I