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"george" <nowhere@newsonly.com> wrote in message
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> "Nostrobino" <not@home.today> wrote in message
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>> "Proteus" <nospam@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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>>> Nostrobino wrote:
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>>>> Did your *credit card company* tell you that, or did you hear it from
>>>> someone in a bar? It seems extremely unlikely to me. Sounds like
>>>> bullshit,
>>>> in fact. Did you call you credit card company when you "saw [you were]
>>>> being shafted" in that way?
>>>>
>>> ..
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>>> Credit card company. I called and talked to credit card customer service
>>> about that.
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>> Well, that's interesting. I just called my credit card company to ask for
>> their policy in such a situation, but they are now apparently outsourcing
>> their customer service to India (as so many other companies are), with
>> the result that I spoke to a woman whose English I could barely
>> understand. But what she *seemed* to be saying was that in such a
>> situation (i.e., seller tries to refuse cancellation of an order even
>> though out of stock) I could call the c.c. company and they would
>> straighten it out with the seller. She definitely did say I would *not*
>> be "held hostage" on the order as you stated in your post.
>>
>> I suppose different c.c. companies have different policies.
>>
>> Now I'm sure that if a seller *clearly states* in his ad that the order
>> cannot be cancelled (e.g., for a special-order item) that would be
>> different, obviously. But if the item is represented as being in stock
>> and really isn't, I cannot imagine any reputable credit card company
>> letting the seller hold the customer hostage in that way.
>>
>> N.
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> Different companies have very different policies...found that out in two
> instances involving
> recurring charges to a charge card. The first involved canceling an ISP
> (and calling them and
> recanceling a number of times) who insisted on continuing to charge my
> credit card (Citibank,
> fortunately). I explained the situation to Citibank and that the ISP was
> not authorized by me to
> charge my account any longer and Citibank no longer accepted any charges
> from them. I had an
> identical situation occur a few years later with a different company and a
> different credit card
> issuer and was told by the credit card company that I'd have to get the
> rogue company to quit
> stealing from my account of their own volition.
Wow. That is surprising, to say the least. Not to mention discouraging.
> I no longer deal with that credit card company
> and NEVER will again. I also never allow any recurring charges under any
> conditions as they
> are MUCH more difficult to EVER get rid of and you never really know what
> you cc company's
> policy on such things will be at the time you have a problem.
Evidently true. I checked my c.c. company's web site and could find no
information at all about their policy in the situation described, no terms
of service or anything like that, nor could I find anything pertinent in the
fine print on the back of the statement. The rep that I spoke to on the
phone answered my questions (I guess), but along with being almost
impossible to understand because of her mostly unintelligible English, did
not really seem very confidence-inspiring.
N.