Your free AvGas fillup at Dodge Center MN (TOB) July Sunday 31, AM

It's kinda funny, I guess, but in some sort of a "paybacks are hell"
category we just this morning had our credit card declined for a gas fill
up
at Grand Glaize Airport, in Missouri, during the mass departure from the
Cherokee Pilots Association fly-in!

I still haven't got to the bottom of it (we never carry a balance) but I
clearly must have caused a "ripple in The Force" by talking about this
issue
on Usenet!

"The Dark Side is strong, in this one"

Chuckle. Give them a call. They should be able to tell you exactly what
the problem was.

Just to follow up -- it turned out that Mary had not "activated" her
new card, so Visa "declined" the charge. (Which is bizarre, since she
swears she's been using it, and I've got the bills to prove it!)

If I had charged the gas on my card (same account, slightly different
number), it would have worked just fine, according to Visa.

Strange crap does happen, from time to time.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

Unfortunately, our revenue is 10 to 1 credit/debit cards versus cash, so
they've got me -- and millions of honest vendors like me -- over a
barbed-wire barrel...


Jay's exactly right. The CC companies don't lose. Someone said
something like "you know how much the CC companies lose to fraud each
year". Guess what, the CC companies don't lose a penny to fraud. The
costs that can't be passed back to a vendor (who, BTW pays a 2-4%
premium on every transaction) gets passed on to the CC holders in the
form of high interest rates and fees. Trust me, the CC companies would
not be in business if they weren't turning a profit.

--
--Ray Andraka, P.E.
President, the Andraka Consulting Group, Inc.
401/884-7930 Fax 401/884-7950
email
http://www.andraka.com

"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, 1759