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> OT Gas pumps, credit cards & Zip Code, who has to enter their zip when paying?
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post Jul 28 2005, 10:00 PM
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Ran into this in CA in May.....

The gas pump wants you to enter your zip code before accepting your credit card as payment. The only problem is we don't use Zip codes up here and it won't accept our postal codes.

Is this prevelent across the states now?
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post Jul 28 2005, 10:02 PM
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cuts down on credit card fraud...

Person A steals B's credit card... A triues to get gas but doesnt know whwere B lived...

make sense?
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post Jul 28 2005, 10:04 PM
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Yes I can see that, but what I'm wondering is how many gas stations (all over the USA?) are doing this. It will make road trips more interestiong to fill up as I don't have a Zip code.
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post Jul 28 2005, 10:05 PM
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post Jul 28 2005, 10:07 PM
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QUOTE (bd1308 @ Jul 28 2005, 09:05 PM)
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Send me your credit card (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif)
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post Jul 28 2005, 10:09 PM
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Go in and show "Habib" yer ID, and he authorizes the purchase....
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QUOTE (SLITS @ Jul 28 2005, 10:07 PM)
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Send me your credit card (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif)

a debit card--no good. i have no money.
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post Jul 28 2005, 10:12 PM
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QUOTE (bd1308 @ Jul 28 2005, 09:09 PM)
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Send me your credit card (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif)

a debit card--no good. i have no money.

Then quit posting useless information (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif)
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post Jul 28 2005, 10:21 PM
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GWN7   Posted on Jul 28 2005, 09:04 PM Yes I can see that, but what I'm wondering is how many gas stations (all over the USA?) are doing this. It will make road trips more interestiong to fill up as I don't have a Zip code.


Where do they send your bill? Thats the zip code they want. They wanted that information when I used my card out of the area that I live in. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif)
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post Jul 28 2005, 10:44 PM
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My bills come up here...we use a alphanumeric combination for our Postal Codes, example R2L 1M9....and I tryed my US address zip (58271) it didn't work.
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post Jul 28 2005, 10:52 PM
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Mostly Chevron stations down here, maybe a couple of others. Does it on debit too, which makes little sense to me. You have already given your pin and if you have that info, the billing zip code would be easier to get than a pin.
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post Jul 28 2005, 11:16 PM
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I've only had to do this when using an American Express. Basically all of the credit card checkout terminals nowadays - including gas pumps.
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post Jul 29 2005, 04:50 AM
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i'm beginning to like the cash concept again more and more.
with gas at $2.50/gal fillups are pretty easy to get to a multiple of $5...
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post Jul 29 2005, 05:57 AM
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QUOTE (ArtechnikA @ Jul 29 2005, 06:50 AM)
i'm beginning to like the cash concept again more and more.
with gas at $2.50/gal fillups are pretty easy to get to a multiple of $5...

That's nice Rich.

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post Jul 29 2005, 06:02 AM
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Hmmm.... never heard of this.

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post Jul 29 2005, 07:20 AM
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I started seeing this with my Discover Card probably a year or so ago. I think the other cards followed suit not long after.
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post Jul 29 2005, 08:29 AM
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First, it only seems to do this on MC/Visa type cards, or debit cards. If you get a brand specific gas card (Shell Card, Chevron card, etc), it doesn't do this. I've only seen it in CA, and it doesn't ask for the zip every time. Chevron stations seem to be the most likely to ask. I've never been asked at a Shell station.

I recently made a road trip from NJ to CA, and wasn't asked for my zip even once, so I don't think it's common outside CA.

The zip has to match the billing address on the card. So, you can also handle this by getting a card with a US billing address just for trips like this. I agree it really sucks that these systems only handle US postal codes.
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post Jul 29 2005, 08:32 AM
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i've run across this a couple of times in NC SC and GA
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post Jul 29 2005, 09:26 AM
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QUOTE (meares @ Jul 29 2005, 09:32 AM)
i've run across this a couple of times in NC SC and GA

Some of the stations here do it some don't. Another thing that has happened is some places are not requiring me to sign a credit card receipt when the bill is under $50. Walgreens and Kroger here are doing this.
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post Jul 29 2005, 09:34 AM
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The first time I'd ever seen that was when I was in Cali for WWC.

Back here in Ohio, I've never seen it...
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