All too true. DISCOVER is probably the world's at that.
They cost my business money twice before I dropped them.
Bill W5EC
At 04:22 AM 5/15/97 -0600, you wrote:
>It has been my experience in the mail order business that when shipping
>to an address other than the invoice address on the card, the cardholder
>can claim never received and you are up the proverbial creek with SOME
>card companies. If you have ever dealt as a merchant with a card
>company service (not the actual card issuer) then you know what I am
>talking about. These folks are merciless with merchants!
>
>Gerald at Texas Towers has undoubtedly been burned, maybe more than once
>with this. Merchants are cautioned about this when getting the
>equipment to charge purchases. Apparently it is a major scam
>possibility.
>
>Please, I am not insinuating at all that hams are scams, just trying to
>throw out one reason Gerald may not want to do any charges where the
>ship to is different than the billing address as a general policy.
>
>There are many merchants I am sure who have done this successfully. We
>also didn't take a chance UNLESS we knew the person.
>
>73,
>
>Charlie, W0YG..>>
>
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