[BITList] HOTEL SCAM

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Hugh
my card is a hybrid card in so as it is attached to my savings account 
which has to be maintained at a certain level pays interest and settles 
the card automatically each month, works fine except for the instances I 
mentioned, which they said only happened because they ie the computer 
thought the card was being used by an unauthorised person and put a stop 
on it to protect me, for me read the banks interest
frank

On 3/5/2013 12:37 AM, HUGH wrote:
> Frank,
> I use a debit card,  and the only function I've ever encountered where 
> that isn't readily accepted is booking flights online. That's no 
> problem - there are plenty in the family with credit cards, and they 
> accept cash eagerly from us.  I cut up my last valid credit card aeons 
> ago and have felt the benefit ever since. I did apply for one just 
> over a year ago to get over a temporary need for a flight to 
> somewhere. My bank looked into my past, present and future before 
> telling my my credit rating was such that the answer was "no". Having 
> no debts, and not having had any since I borrowed a few quid from them 
> a good many years ago and paid it back timeously, I inquired of the 
> credit agency the bank used, but found one needs a credit card to talk 
> to them.  By other means I learned the problem lies in my lack of a 
> credit rating. Shortly thereafter, along came an envelope of 
> unsolicited bumf from the bank with a special, not to be ignored, 
> offer of a credit card to anyone. My need for one had gone, but I 
> filled in the form and in due course I got a shiny credit card, and 
> nobody asked me about a credit rating.  Eventually they took umbrage 
> at sending me bills for £0-0-0 and required me to use the card or cut 
> it up. I did neither. It is an ex-credit card.
> Hugh.
>
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