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erb1953



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 Posted on Fri Aug 08, 2008 2:42 am  
I would think that you could call them up and order it over the phone, just google them and get the number, give them a buzz and request it.
 
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 Posted on Sat Aug 09, 2008 12:26 am  
Good advice as usual erb.
 
goodnatured



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 Posted on Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:18 am  
Anything that you can order on the net you can call and get.
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 Posted on Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:48 am  
Thats actually how I prefer to do it. Although I love my net I like a good old fashioned phone call better. Especially when purchasing anything.
 
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 Posted on Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:43 am  
I guess what ever makes you happy or what ever makes you feel safe?
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 Posted on Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:50 am  
Thats how I am looking at it.
 
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 Posted on Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:21 am  
to each his own, hopefully you will be okay with this.
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 Posted on Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:32 pm  
You just hear sooo many scary stories about stole cc numbers. I guess it can really happen anywhere if you look at it. I have heard things on the news and read in the paper about people who scan your credit card and copy the numbers at retail stores and hotels. You also hear where employess at banks or other places have been cought selling your info. Another thing lots of people are not aware of is how simple it is for a teller to enter one wrong number and cha ching you now just bought shoes for someone else or made anothers payment. This happened to my sister. She worked really hard and paid off her discover ard and got a atatement in the mail with a balance due. Someone had purchased something a a shoe place in Ten. and when she called the card people straightened it out. Here there was very little difference in her card nu,ber and someone elses. She asked to be issued a new ard.
 
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 Posted on Tue Aug 12, 2008 2:41 am  
I just seen on the news where the theives are putting scanners on gas pumps and on atm machines to get your information.
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 Posted on Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:34 am  
That's why I don't use my Debit card in the gas pumps, etc. I DO use an ATM, like everyone else, I guess. But, ya'll are right. Debit card/CC cards can be stolen anywhere.
 
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 Posted on Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:27 pm  
Yes, identity theft mostly occurs through credit cards. For identity theft, it is not necessary for the person to steal your credit card. They may copy the details of your credit card when you are making payments in any departmental store with your card. So you need to be alert whenever you are making any payment with your card. Moreover, someone may sign up for a credit card in your name if they somehow come to know about your personal details. To prevent this you can set fraud alert services with the credit bureaus.
 
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 Posted on Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:55 pm  
This is what I was taliking about . This world has gone crazy and sometimes you just aren't safe anywhere. I think it was a couple years ago they were tapping into business phone lines and hearing peoples account numbers and writing them down. I have noticed that if I am ordering from the same company they don't ask for my full account number now. Usually they say "will you be using the account on file, with the ast four digits 5555." I really think that is a great idea if it is someone you do business with on a reg. basis.
 
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 Posted on Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:42 am  
I have a freind at work who went out to eat and went to use her card to pay for the meal and was turned down after she ate, she was so embarrassed about it. Apparently she had shopped at a store where they busted a ring of thieves doing exactly what Justin was talking about here, thing is the credit card company froze the cards and mailed out new ones but did not inform the customers that they were doing this. I bet she is not the only one that got caught in this situation.
 
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 Posted on Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:01 am  
wow, you would have thought that they would have contacted their customers so they did not get in this embarrassing situation, I would have been calling them up and screaming in somebody's ear about not contacting me. hope they got it all straightened out.
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 Posted on Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:03 pm  
I would have been glad that the company did this but really peeved that they at least didn't inform me. Do you know how many people will use cc for cashback rewards and stuff like that. They will cahrge all their weekly purchases and then pay online at the end of that week. It quickly adds up in rewards. My old boss did this all the time to get the perks.
Oh the shamed face someone would get from this.
 
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