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- From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
- Subject: Re: Movie Rental Place wants my Credit Card #
- References: <1992Aug10.150901.12737@meteor.wisc.edu> <1992Aug11.184817.11221@icd.teradyne.com>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:11:39 GMT
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- rvn@icd.teradyne.com (Rafael Vidaillet) writes:
- >In article 12737@meteor.wisc.edu, moonunit@meteor.wisc.edu (Chris Bovitz) writes:
- >>I went to a movie rental store last night (in Madison, WI) to rent a movie.
- >>to rent, you need to be a member. So I ask to sign up. The guy says that
- >>he needs to see 2 forms of ID - driver's license & {credit card | checking
- >>account #}. I asked him "is that legal?" and he said he didn't know.
- >>I didn't sign.
-
- > Well this is the way all the movie rental places I have been a member
- > of work. The idea is that if you take off with the tape and dissappear
- > they will be able to charge you the price of the movie. I have never
- > had a problem with it (and I've had memberships in more than 10 different
- > places). So I would not worry much about it, if you don't like it,
- > some places will take a cash deposit, and will limit how many tapes
- > you can take out at any given time, depending on the size of the
- > deposit (on credit cards I think it is 4 tapes).
- >
- > I don't know of the legalities, but every place I know in Boston
- > does this, and I have not heard of anyone having any problems,
- > unless they take off with the tapes :-)....
- *----
- I have memberships at four places here in Champaign - none of them
- required a credit card.
-
- On several occasions, I have rented tapes that were defective. They
- often ended up right back on the shelves after I returned them, even
- though I mentioned the problem. I don't want to take the chance that
- the store will decide to charge me for replacement sometime on their
- own volition.
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- Mike Berger
- Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
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