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"quietguy" wrote in message
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I've just received a "past due" invoice for the purchase of 250
gallons of Jet A from an FBO a thousand miles away on 20 May. The
invoice includes my name and address and the N-number of my airplane.
The trouble is: I'm not a jet pilot; haven't been to that city in
thirty years; the airplane with that N-number is still a-building in
my garage and it won't burn kerosene when it flies, anyway.

A few years ago, I fueled up at an airport and gave them my Discover
Card (1% cash back). They didn't have a machine there, so they took an
imprint. A few weeks later, I got a bill from them with a note saying
they don't take Discover. They had written the tail number on the slip,
so they knew where to mail the bill.

My guess is something similar happened here, but they got the tail
number wrong.
Still makes no sense if it was a CC sale.

He already said that all the facts aren't in. In my case, it was a credit
card transaction, but I got a bill from the FBO, because the CC didn't go
through.

If the CC didn't go through, you would not have gotten any gas (or whateve
else).


It may have been a CC sale, but did the FBO say the CC was in his name? If
so, who said it? A clerk who could do nothing about it?

IIRC the OP, it was a CC swipe sale...not a face-to-face sale. In that case
the FBO would not know who to send a bill to, and/or he would not have been
able to get gas from the pump.

I still think the CC (in someone else's name) was declined, and the bill
was simply mailed to the owner of the plane - but they mixed up the
N-number.

Again, if the CC was declined, he would not have gotten gas.

AIS, this whole thing is fishy. (Please, no fish puns :~) )