On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 06:22:20 -0500, micky
wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 20 Feb 2017 01:53:28 -0500,
wrote:

On Sun, 19 Feb 2017 23:48:09 -0500, micky
wrote:

Is the account number of a charge account sometimes, or often, or
always, the number that appears on the card?

I have a checking account and the account number is entirely different
from the number on the card.

I just got a new credit card on a different bank and I have to file the
rejection of arbitration notice within 30 days and, reasonably, it wants
the account number on the paper.. But it's gotten to the point where I
can't find out my own account number. It's not in the mail they send me
or on the webpage for my account.

There must be a fourth place to look but right now I can only think of
the card itself.

The account number pretty much will never be the card number. Credit
card numbers are a self check code that indicates the carrier (Visa/MC
etc) and the bank along with a serial number and the self check digit.

That makes sense, and that's what I thought, but I was running out of
numbers. After I posted I called them and sat on hold for 45 minutes
(one reason I didn't want to call) and the person wouldn't tell me my
number of course, but I asked her the question above, and she said Yes,
they're the same number. Still hard to believe, so today's so-called
President's Day but I'll call tomorrow

Buttttt, I also noticed that even though I only had the last 4 digits
of the credit account, they are the same last 4 digits on the credit
card. That seems to support what she told me.

Surely I can find a piece of paper that has my account number on it.
It's absurd.

I
Your CREDIT CARD account and the card number CAN be the same number.
Up here it IS if there is only one card issued on the account - but we
have 2 cards on each credit card account - one for me and one for my
wife. Different numbers. Same account.
Makes it easy to see who charged what.