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University of Waterloo Bookstore violates Visa merchant guidelines

Those of you who know me or read this site will understand that I have very strong feelings about how financial and credit card transactions are supposed to work. Today I attempted to purchase a textbook for SCI 205, Physics of High Fidelity Sound Reproduction. Apparently the original book used for the course is out [...]

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2009 09 25 Jake Billo angry
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Writing “see ID” on your credit card is worse than useless

Over at the Consumerist, there’s a recent piece debunking a Boston Globe article on writing “See ID” or some variation of the phrase on the back of credit cards. I admire what popular consumer advocacy site has done for the average person who’s gotten screwed by a large company, but some of their posts definitely [...]

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2008 04 28 Jake Billo opinion Comments (7)