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 JahntassaWhat, I can have feathersPremium
join:2006-04-14
Conway, SC
kudos:4 | reply to Father JackH
Re: [Rant] olive graden said by Father JackH :
You know, I can't believe that people are still stupid enough to let their credit card out of their sight in this day and age. Do you know how many people die in car accidents these days?! Who would be stupid enough to get in a car? Or smoke? Or drink alcohol? Or even breathe!
Yes, I know identity theft is real and you'd be more sensitive to it if you had it done to you once, but honestly the chance of having someone skim your card has got to be pretty damn low. Thousands of transactions have gone through my cards since i've gotten them and i've NEVER had a problem with an unauthorized charge showing up.
Seriously, there's paranoid and there's 'sensible'. If my card disappeared like that I would certainly not return to that restaurant, and I would have it out with the management. I would also talk to Visa/Mastercard/whoever about that particular facility about said event.
However I have never seen someone walk with their card to the register, and honestly it has to be a statistically low possibility that someone would actually skim cards. | | |
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| said by Jahntassa:said by Father JackH :
You know, I can't believe that people are still stupid enough to let their credit card out of their sight in this day and age. Do you know how many people die in car accidents these days?! Who would be stupid enough to get in a car? Or smoke? Or drink alcohol? Or even breathe! That's an entirely false analogy, sir: everyone has to get into a car at some point. Attempting to portray driving or traveling in a car as some sort of senseless and irrational act does nothing but make you appear to be senseless and irrational.
Which is your prerogative, I suppose.
And frankly, if you want to give up breathing, there's little I can do to stop you. It is, after all, your respiratory system and I can't force you to operate it if you don't deem it worth your while.
said by Jahntassa:Yes, I know identity theft is real and you'd be more sensitive to it But I am sensitive to it. Why else would I insist on taking precautions against it?
said by Jahntassa:if you had it done to you once, but honestly the chance of having someone skim your card has got to be pretty damn low. If you're comfortable with the odds, that's okay with me. After all, it's your credit card, right?
said by Jahntassa:Thousands of transactions have gone through my cards since i've gotten them and i've NEVER had a problem with an unauthorized charge showing up. Do you do much investing? Because a popular disclaimer on propecti is "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."
So if you're comfortable with asserting that just because you've never been ripped off in the past you are, therefore, not likely to be ripped off in the future.......well, as I say: it's your credit card.
said by Jahntassa:Seriously, there's paranoid and there's 'sensible'. If my card disappeared like that I would certainly not return to that restaurant, and I would have it out with the management. I would also talk to Visa/Mastercard/whoever about that particular facility about said event. The entire point of my post (which seems to have been completely lost on you) is that if you make it a practice never to allow your credit card to leave your sight, you will never have to worry about it mysteriously disappearing in restaurants, or having to explain to the credit card company why you allowed someone else to take possession of your credit card and lose it on you.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, as they say. And I think you'll find that the point of "paranoia" is, quite frequently, to head off problems before they become problems.
said by Jahntassa:However I have never seen someone walk with their card to the register, and honestly it has to be a statistically low possibility that someone would actually skim cards. Who told you that credit card skimming is a relatively rare ocurrence? The credit card companies? I don't think so.
When it comes to the probability of being defrauded, the kind of probability I prefer is that of zero. And as long as I keep my credit card in my field of view at all times, I'm confident that the chances of getting my card skimmed are pretty close to that.
If, however, you happen to view handing off your credit card to a complete stranger and having them disappear from view with it for a few minutes as "no big thing," then that
doesn't pose a problem for me. Luckily, my political philosophy allows other people to be as silly as they like, provided they don't try to stick me with the bill for their silliness.
After all, if people didn't allow their credit cards out of their sight, we wouldn't see posts like the OP's, would we? And where's the fun in that? | |
 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | reply to Jahntassa
said by Jahntassa:said by Father JackH :
You know, I can't believe that people are still stupid enough to let their credit card out of their sight in this day and age. Yes, I know identity theft is real and you'd be more sensitive to it if you had it done to you once, but honestly the chance of having someone skim your card has got to be pretty damn low. Well as one that HAS had their identity stolen you bet i'm not letting that card out of sight, I always pay with cash at restaurants.
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 l33tPremium
join:2003-01-23
Indianapolis, IN | reply to Father JackH
It's still okay as long as you keep track of your purchases... | |
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