just us wrote:
> Finally got an email! In fact I got 2. First one said he was sorry with
> order, everything has been sent. 6 minutes later there was a second email.
> It said his wife had had a baby, he had not been in the office, had received
> email with my order in it, and that he will send the order out tomorrow . So
> who knows - presumably I wait again. Thanks for the info on getting $$ back
> from your credit card. It has appeared on my statement so I presumed there
> was no way of getting it back.
> Kathy
>
>
Hi Kathy, this is Ken from Canada,
Something worse happened to me while bicycling across to Darwin. By the
time I got to Hells Gate I could not use my CC. In the previous week
while bicycling between Burketown and Hells Gate my CC was stopped by
the bank here in Canada. I had cash so continued to Borroloola and then
started telephoning Canada (at my expense) to find out what happened.
Apparently someone "stole the details" from my CC during one of the
transactions and then those details were used for several small
purchases to see if the card worked .... then in a few quick
transactions $15000 was spent in Europe. In the meantime I was in the
Gulf region of QLD. When the bank found out what had happened I did NOT
have to pay anything that was charged to me. I just switched to American
Express and cash until I returned to Canada.
A new Mastercard was issued to me and was waiting for me {
} when
I returned home. So to cut to the quick, Kathy, your money was always
"safe" and all you had to do was to alert the original vendor and if
that would not have solved the issue then you just would have contacted
your bank or CC issuer and they would have done the chargeback thing....
Apparently your (and my) situations happen every day in the credit card
business. A high school chum now does VISA CC security stuff after a
career in military computer security/encription stuff.
As an aside, it has been about -20C here and several of my fellow
teachers are still bicycling to school. Mind you they use Schwalbe
studded tires - and yes, they do break into a bit of a sweat if they
bicycle too fast.
Ken, Canada
