Visit from the Hardware Police!

[morningtrader]

Bought components for my new dream machine yesterday from newegg, crucial, thenerds, inflow direct, pcpower. When I went to buy the last piece this morning, a video card from mwave, they rejected my very respectable business CC although it has over 7K in reserve left.

Called my CC company. They had put my card on Fraud Alert because of all the geeky Net purchases. They only released it after I went through the buys, one by one.

BTW the total was about $1800. If I had paid twice that for a POS from Gateway or Dell, I'm absolutely sure I would never have heard from them.

Alan

 

[ndee]

LOL

 

[Lichee]

"all the geeky Net purchases"

is that a direct quote from your CC company?? lol

 

[Muerto]

LOL that's funny. I'm surprised that hasn't happened to me yet. I've been making a lot of "geeky net purchases" recently as well.

 

[VBboy]

That's why they charge you such a huge APR, so that they have money to pay all those dorks who monitor evey transaction on your card and reject it based on their bogus rules.

 

[flamingelephant]

They seem to flag new "trends" in purchasing... so large purchases of say $3000 bucks once a day are alright... but when you get a whole bunch of smaller ones at several places within a short time span, thats what someone would do if they got your CC number. Think about it.... I steal your number.. I'm not gonna go out and buy a 5000 wide screen tv... I'm gonna buy lots of 300 buck stuff from everywhere... less change of getting caught at the purchasing level from the store where you buy it, and not enough to set off value alarms at the CC company.
The same thing happened to me too... Its a little annoying, but its probably saved some people tonnes o cash!

 

[187]

<< They seem to flag new &quot;trends&quot; in purchasing... so large purchases of say $3000 bucks once a day are alright... but when you get a whole bunch of smaller ones at several places within a short time span, thats what someone would do if they got your CC number. Think about it.... I steal your number.. I'm not gonna go out and buy a 5000 wide screen tv... I'm gonna buy lots of 300 buck stuff from everywhere... less change of getting caught at the purchasing level from the store where you buy it, and not enough to set off value alarms at the CC company.
The same thing happened to me too... Its a little annoying, but its probably saved some people tonnes o cash! >>




makes plenty of sense to me!