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King of Road Trips ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 6,280 Joined: 31-December 02 From: Winnipeg, MB, Canada Member No.: 56 Region Association: Northstar Region ![]() |
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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Professional Lawn Dart ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Retired Admin Posts: 24,542 Joined: 1-February 03 From: Corona, CA Member No.: 219 Region Association: Southern California ![]() |
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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King of Road Trips ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 6,280 Joined: 31-December 02 From: Winnipeg, MB, Canada Member No.: 56 Region Association: Northstar Region ![]() |
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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Sir Post-a-lot ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 8,020 Joined: 24-January 05 From: Louisville,KY Member No.: 3,501 ![]() |
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"This Utah shit is HARSH!" ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Benefactors Posts: 13,602 Joined: 22-February 04 From: SoCal Mountains ... Member No.: 1,696 Region Association: None ![]() ![]() |
Send me your credit card (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif) |
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Retired admin, banned a few times ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 17,427 Joined: 24-December 02 From: Boulder CO Member No.: 5 Region Association: None ![]() |
Go in and show "Habib" yer ID, and he authorizes the purchase....
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Sir Post-a-lot ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 8,020 Joined: 24-January 05 From: Louisville,KY Member No.: 3,501 ![]() |
a debit card--no good. i have no money. |
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"This Utah shit is HARSH!" ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Benefactors Posts: 13,602 Joined: 22-February 04 From: SoCal Mountains ... Member No.: 1,696 Region Association: None ![]() ![]() |
Then quit posting useless information (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif) |
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"Here Kitty Kitty" my ass...... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 4,109 Joined: 9-May 04 From: Roseburg, OR. Member No.: 2,039 Region Association: Spain ![]() |
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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King of Road Trips ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 6,280 Joined: 31-December 02 From: Winnipeg, MB, Canada Member No.: 56 Region Association: Northstar Region ![]() |
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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914 Guru ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 5,082 Joined: 20-March 03 From: Mesa, AZ Member No.: 447 Region Association: Southwest Region ![]() ![]() |
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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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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rich herzog ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 7,390 Joined: 4-April 03 From: Salted Roads, PA Member No.: 513 Region Association: None ![]() |
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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Bless the Hell out of you! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 10,926 Joined: 29-June 03 Member No.: 869 ![]() |
That's nice Rich. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/sad.gif) I wish it was $0.29 again. M |
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Thank God Nemo is not here to see this ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 9,706 Joined: 5-August 03 From: Akron, OH Member No.: 984 Region Association: None ![]() |
Hmmm.... never heard of this.
We are always the last to know in OH.... except of course when we elect presidents. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif) |
ematulac |
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914 addict ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 24-November 03 From: Palmdale, CA Member No.: 1,382 ![]() |
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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Not another one! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Benefactors Posts: 4,526 Joined: 1-March 04 From: San Mateo, CA Member No.: 1,743 ![]() ![]() |
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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Member ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 403 Joined: 23-March 05 From: Atlanta Member No.: 3,800 ![]() |
i've run across this a couple of times in NC SC and GA
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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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:: Punch and Pie :: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3,585 Joined: 26-December 04 From: Tuscaloosa, AL and Akron, OH Member No.: 3,342 Region Association: Upper MidWest ![]() |
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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