Credit Cards
I always feel bad when people’s credit cards don’t go through. I mean, I know myself that it’s kind of embarrassing even though you really have no reason to be embarrassed because it happens all the time and it doesn’t necssarily mean that you have no money.
A few times this summer I’ve had campers try to use their card and when we try to process it we get the “please call for authroization” line. We then have to explain how this is not their fault, how it’s because they’re out of the country and how they just have to call the credit card company to tell them.
Usually we dial for them and let them use our phone, because I know that if I was on vacation and that happened to me, I’d want someone to help me out a bit and at least let me call. So usually they do that and get it all squared away and everything is good to go!
This happened yesterday. And everything was fine except the guy kept saying how he had just used his card at the gas station up the street. He told me about four times.
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Well obviously you would have to use it in Canada at least once for them to know you’re in Canada. O_O How else would they realize that there’s where your card is being used?
I think he was just flustered so that’s why he said it, so I was trying to be nice and understanding, haha. Because I mean really, I would feel the same way. And I wouldn’t someone being all technical and bitchy to me. So, I just told him not to worry about it and that honestly it happens all the time.
Really it’s a good thing, right? It’s better than getting your card stolen and having someone rack up a disgusting amount of money on there. It happened to me in Japan, actually. My MasterCard got a stop put on it because they noticed I was using it out of the country. I had to call them (I used Skype, haha) to say noooo, I’m really here and I need my card! Haha. Now my Visa on the other hand. . . that one I just ran out of space on. O_O Oddly enough they didn’t put a stop on my card, only my MasterCard did. I wonder if that makes MC safer?