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If you do online shopping, pay very close attention to your bill. I just
took a hit for $1,200 worth of software. Me? Yeah, right . . . I'm the one who's still learning to take pictures of my thumb with the telephone. What on earth would I do with a $1,200 software package? Fortunately, my nice credit card company also knew that such a purchase was highly unlikely and slammed the credit card account shut. Unfortunately, I had ordered a beautiful navy blue dress that was 70% off. Now it's no longer available. (sigh). Read your bills very carefully. Polly |
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A few years ago I got hit with the purchase of a home gym.
-- Mary http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948 "Polly Esther" wrote in message ... : If you do online shopping, pay very close attention to your bill. I just : took a hit for $1,200 worth of software. Me? Yeah, right . . . I'm the one : who's still learning to take pictures of my thumb with the telephone. What : on earth would I do with a $1,200 software package? Fortunately, my nice : credit card company also knew that such a purchase was highly unlikely and : slammed the credit card account shut. Unfortunately, I had ordered a : beautiful navy blue dress that was 70% off. Now it's no longer available. : (sigh). Read your bills very carefully. Polly : : |
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Several years back I didn't pay much attention to my statements. I just
spent less money than I brought in. It was going into Christmas time. I was purchasing like crazy and was accustomed to living on very little after all the purchasing. Then came January and I was paying bills off from Christmas...so still used to having not too much money. Then February. All bills paid...WHY did I have so little money in my account?!?! Well, after reviewing my account from Late November through to February I had very very small charges on my account for online porn. CHarges like $4.99, $1.99, $3.99. Amounts that while shopping and bill paying I never noticed missing because I didn't look at my statements and didn't balance my checkbook. Well it snowballed and snowballed until I was getting socked with tons of little charges that all ultimately totalled a little over $2000!!!!!!! I can tell you with like nine million phone calls and a lot of pretty funny phone converstaions about online porn site I HAD NOT visited (imagine two serious adults listing off fetish porn site names) I did manage to get every single penny back between financial processors and my bank. I then bought a sewing machine with my "forced savings"!!!! Moral of the story is I now log into my bank account once a day and check my accounts. Melissa in NJ Polly Esther wrote: If you do online shopping, pay very close attention to your bill. I just took a hit for $1,200 worth of software. Me? Yeah, right . . . I'm the one who's still learning to take pictures of my thumb with the telephone. What on earth would I do with a $1,200 software package? Fortunately, my nice credit card company also knew that such a purchase was highly unlikely and slammed the credit card account shut. Unfortunately, I had ordered a beautiful navy blue dress that was 70% off. Now it's no longer available. (sigh). Read your bills very carefully. Polly |
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I check my credit card website almost every day. Since we are south for the
winter, I use my card to order lots of quilty things online, as well as for everyday items. BUT, I never spend more than I can afford to pay at month end. I have caught a couple of double charges at hotels, etc., and although they are a PITA to deal with, I have always managed to get the charges reversed. -- Susan in Zephyrhills FL finally back to quilting http://community.webshots.com/user/sbtinkingston "Melissa in NJ" wrote in message ups.com... Several years back I didn't pay much attention to my statements. I just spent less money than I brought in. It was going into Christmas time. I was purchasing like crazy and was accustomed to living on very little after all the purchasing. Then came January and I was paying bills off from Christmas...so still used to having not too much money. Then February. All bills paid...WHY did I have so little money in my account?!?! Well, after reviewing my account from Late November through to February I had very very small charges on my account for online porn. CHarges like $4.99, $1.99, $3.99. Amounts that while shopping and bill paying I never noticed missing because I didn't look at my statements and didn't balance my checkbook. Well it snowballed and snowballed until I was getting socked with tons of little charges that all ultimately totalled a little over $2000!!!!!!! I can tell you with like nine million phone calls and a lot of pretty funny phone converstaions about online porn site I HAD NOT visited (imagine two serious adults listing off fetish porn site names) I did manage to get every single penny back between financial processors and my bank. I then bought a sewing machine with my "forced savings"!!!! Moral of the story is I now log into my bank account once a day and check my accounts. Melissa in NJ Polly Esther wrote: If you do online shopping, pay very close attention to your bill. I just took a hit for $1,200 worth of software. Me? Yeah, right . . . I'm the one who's still learning to take pictures of my thumb with the telephone. What on earth would I do with a $1,200 software package? Fortunately, my nice credit card company also knew that such a purchase was highly unlikely and slammed the credit card account shut. Unfortunately, I had ordered a beautiful navy blue dress that was 70% off. Now it's no longer available. (sigh). Read your bills very carefully. Polly |
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So sorry, Polly! I do indeed watch very carefully. And the only card I use
online is my Citi card, which generates a fake credit card number (good for one purchase at that merchant only) for each purchase, so my real Citicard number never gets out of the house. It's probably the only thing that makes me feel safe ordering online. Even the most reliable merchants can get a rat on staff. Glad your card company was so prompt about the theft. That's a real comfort! -- Carolyn in The Old Pueblo If it ain't broke, you're not trying. --Red Green If it ain't broke, it ain't mine. --Carolyn McCarty If at first you don't succeed, switch to power tools. --Red Green If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer. --Carolyn McCarty "Polly Esther" wrote in message ... If you do online shopping, pay very close attention to your bill. I just took a hit for $1,200 worth of software. Me? Yeah, right . . . I'm the one who's still learning to take pictures of my thumb with the telephone. What on earth would I do with a $1,200 software package? Fortunately, my nice credit card company also knew that such a purchase was highly unlikely and slammed the credit card account shut. Unfortunately, I had ordered a beautiful navy blue dress that was 70% off. Now it's no longer available. (sigh). Read your bills very carefully. Polly |
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Well sure anyone can get a rat on staff. I even hired one myself one time.
She had an awesome resume and a fine education. One evening early on, I asked her to help me change the time on the office computers. This was back in the DOS days. She was without a clue. It caused me to wonder what else was a lie. Most of it. Polly "Carolyn McCarty" wrote in message ... So sorry, Polly! I do indeed watch very carefully. And the only card I use online is my Citi card, which generates a fake credit card number (good for one purchase at that merchant only) for each purchase, so my real Citicard number never gets out of the house. It's probably the only thing that makes me feel safe ordering online. Even the most reliable merchants can get a rat on staff. Glad your card company was so prompt about the theft. That's a real comfort! |
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Polly Esther wrote:
If you do online shopping, pay very close attention to your bill. I just took a hit for $1,200 worth of software. ........ Fortunately, my nice credit card company also knew that such a purchase was highly unlikely and slammed the credit card account shut. ....... Polly This reminded me about something similar that happened to me when my DBro passed away in Los Angeles four ago on Valentines Day. My DSis Betsy (who lives in Austin, TX) and I (I'm in No. GA) went to take care of "things" since Papa wasn't up to it. We made arrangements for Mike's cremation using an old friend of his who happened to run his own mortuary. Betsy drove to downtown L.A. (we were staying with cousins in Anaheim) to take care of paperwork while I dealt with phone calls, etc. I gave Betsy my AmEx card number since the receptionist at the mortuary had told me on the phone that they took AmEx (frequent flyer miles and all that -- LOL). When Betsy got there, Mike's friend told her that they didn't take AmEx so she phoned me and I gave her my MasterCard number. I get another call from Betsy a few minutes later telling me that the MC number won't go through and the mortuary guy had even personally phoned the charge request in after trying -- unsuccessfully -- to swipe the card several times! I told him there was NO balance on the card so it should have been OK and said I would contact MC first thing the next morning because by now their offices were closed. I called MC first thing the next morning -- early because we were leaving town ASAP to drive back to Lizard Land. I finally managed to get a live person on the phone -- even one who spoke English as his native language!! Seems that they had not honored the original request AND put a hold on my account because it seemed like a strange purchase by me. I assured the guy that I was me (I answered all those odd questions correctly) and I was trying to pay to have my recently DEAD DBro cremated!!! The poor guy at MC was tripping over his words apologizing to me and telling me that trying to charge bogus funeral stuff was not unusual for LaLa Land. He also said he would honor the original charge request and reactivate my card so that I could use it if need be whilst driving across the lovely SoCal/AZ desert 8-P******. I told the poor young man that I understood, didn't blame anyone for the SNAFU and made mention of the fact that I was sure Mike was having a good laugh over the whole thing from wherever "he" happened to be at that time :-)! CiaoMeow ^;;^ PAX, Tia Mary ^;;^ (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at http://community.webshots.com/user/tiamary |
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Mary wrote: The poor guy at MC was tripping over his words
apologizing to me and telling me that trying to charge bogus funeral stuff was not unusual for LaLa Land. You're kidding, right? No, I guess you're not. Don't you just know that the guys at Master Charge have seen some really strange charges? Polly |
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I have a VISA debit card, and I don't use it all that much.
So if I happen to "hit the sales" on the Internet and run up charges on US sites I usually get a very polite call from my credit union (sometimes within 30 minutes!) asking if I am home or in the US, because of the unusual activity. I find that kind of reassuring. Last time I laughed and explained that I was a quilter and that all the charges should be on quilt stores. The lady on the other end of the line came out with . . . . . . . yep, you guessed it - "Oh I'm a quilter too!" We had a nice chat and I recommended a couple of sites that were new to her. lol Lets face it - some quilt stores do have "unusual" names! -- Cheryl & the Cats in OZ o o o o o o ( Y ) ( Y ) ( Y ) Enness Boofhead Donut http://community.webshots.com/user/witchofthewest catsatararatATyahooDOTcomDOTau "Polly Esther" wrote in message ... : Mary wrote: The poor guy at MC was tripping over his words : apologizing to me and telling me that trying to charge bogus funeral : stuff was not unusual for LaLa Land. : You're kidding, right? No, I guess you're not. Don't you just know : that the guys at Master Charge have seen some really strange charges? Polly : : : |
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I always check my bill very carefully, and match it with my credit card
receipts, but sometimes "stuff" happens. We were on a trip one time, and had bought gas, and the service station attendant ran it through 4 times! We only had to pay for the 1 gas purchase. I do get irritated when the credit card company calls me, and have me listen to a long list of charges to confirm that I have actually made them. We just came back from a 12 day trip to New Mexico, and I kept telling DH that I bet Mastercard would be calling to make sure it was us. No calls, but let me use it 3 or 4 times in one day at home, and they call every time! Discover card did call me one time to tell me that someone had tried to purchase 2 computers, and 4 Dooney & Burke bags with my card. They didn't authorize any of them, and they sent us new Discover cards. It does pay to be careful. Sherry Starr "Polly Esther" wrote in message ... If you do online shopping, pay very close attention to your bill. I just took a hit for $1,200 worth of software. Me? Yeah, right . . . I'm the one who's still learning to take pictures of my thumb with the telephone. What on earth would I do with a $1,200 software package? Fortunately, my nice credit card company also knew that such a purchase was highly unlikely and slammed the credit card account shut. Unfortunately, I had ordered a beautiful navy blue dress that was 70% off. Now it's no longer available. (sigh). Read your bills very carefully. Polly |
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