Banks at fault or are you?

[Zkribbler]

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Pardon my laziness, but I didn't want to start a similar thread on a similar topic

Late last week, my credit card was declined....a muy surpriso to me. But I thought that maybe the vendor has messed up or something. I called the auto-"consumer-service" machine, and it claimed it didn't have my account number.

So Monday I called my credit union -- the one I've been using for the last 40 years. "We changed providers" -- they tell me -- "You should have gotten a new card."

I go home and check. No new card. So I call back and tell them. They give me the number for "lost and stolen," but then the lady says let me check something, give me your SSN. She checks, "Oh, you don't qualify for the new company."

Forty years with the same CU; a zillion-dollar salary; excellent credit -- what do you have to be to get a credit card?!? Gold fish, three year olds, and cigar-store Injuns get them, but not Zkribbler.

So I go to my new credit union -- the I've been using for only 15 years. They're getting me a new one.

But if I disappear for a few days it's not because Ming found out about me and his wife it's because my IPO is paid via by now-defunct credit card.

However, I shall return!

[Zkribbler]

Ah, the incompetence continues

Even though the change over to the new credit card provides was supposed to have occurred on 6/28, and indeed, my credit card was declined on 6/29 the credit card company went ahead and paid my IPO on 7/1.

So I have another month the come up with a new card for my IP0.

[Lancer]

What's an IPO?

[Gatekeeper]

Initial Public Offering

[Lancer]

I knew that