Comments on: Writing “see ID” on your credit card is worse than useless

By: University of Waterloo Bookstore violates Visa merchant guidelines | Bus error: Jake Billo's weblog

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:49:54 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: Something Knew » Blog Archive » Should You Write ‘SEE ID’ or Sign Your Credit Cards?

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:59:03 +0000

[...] a final word of caution: Jake Billo notes that if you present both your credit card and driver license to a skilled criminal, you’re just [...]

By: Jake Billo

Jake Billo — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:40:43 +0000

Yeah, I didn’t even get the email notification on that one… it got filtered by my overly aggressive SpamAssassin installation. My buddy Phil mentioned its presence on the site, and I crisply marked it as spam for Akismet.

By: Lewis

Lewis — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:28:15 +0000

I got the update email of that guy offering you credit in the comments.

But now it’s gone!

That was too good!

By: Booerns Consumer Blog » Blog Archive » Writing “see ID” on your credit card is worse than useless

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:44:16 +0000

[...] on your credit card is worse than useless This post is a repost of the original article over at jakebillo.com. Visitors here may be interested in it as [...]

By: Booerns.com has gone live: Angry consumer advocacy | Bus error: Jake Billo's weblog

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:21:14 +0000

[...] Warren and myself have just launched booerns.com, a consumer advocacy site with less hand-wringing. It’s a place where I’ll be only slightly more angry than here when talking about people that write “See ID” on their credit cards. [...]

By: Lewis

Lewis — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:20:19 +0000

Let’s not start on about mortgaging our futures and bankrupting our pasts.

Credit cards and fraud?

I’ve gone back to cash (either paper money or debit card). At least I know that the money I’m spending, I have TODAY. If absolutely needed, I have a pre-paid MasterCard (thank you, BMO) to which I would make a deposit / payment before making a purchase which would only accept credit cards.