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- From: carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinzl)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: The unhappy byproduct of gas stations and ATM cards
- Message-ID: <CARL.92Nov11172036@atlantis.Cayman.COM>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 22:20:36 GMT
- References: <Bx9vxr.7zu@chinet.chi.il.us> <n|#@byu.edu>
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- Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge, MA
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- In-reply-to: $stephan@sasb's message of 6 Nov 92 23:21:11 GMT
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- >>I fill up, walk inside, hand the girl my ATM card, she replies 'Our Cash
- >>Station connection is down'. NOW what am I gonna do? I tell her 'I wish you
- >>had a sign outside that said that'. She shrugs. I take out my credit card,
- >>I don't have enough cash, she replies 'Well I'm going to have to charge you
- >>the credit rate now instead of cash'. Now I'm steamed. I'm gonna talk to
-
- Hmmm, perhaps you shouldn't have pulled out your credit card. If you
- didn't have ANY credit cards, I wonder what they would have done! You
- had offered to pay (in good faith) by a method that they advertise
- that they accept and they couldn't accept. I'm not advocating not
- paying but I think they would just have to accept a check (if you have
- your checkbook) or work something else out...
-
- -Carl-
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