"smithfarms pure kona" wrote in message
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On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:49:55 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski"
wrote:


"Greg" wrote in message
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wrote in message
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BTW - I believe it is illegal for a company to actually charge
your
credit card for an item until it actually gets shipped. Worth
checking
into!

Good vendors won't charge your card before shipping the product,
but I am
not aware of any law that prevents that obnoxious practice. That
is
particulary true with special orders.

The law was intended for mail-order firms that were taking the money
and not
delivering on a timely basis. Special orders often require a deposit
of
cash or CC to insure you will not cancel and stick the company with a
special item they cannot sell otherwise.


I sell all my coffee mail order and use a national merchant card
service. There is nothing that says you cannot charge before the
product is sent, ostensibly to be sure the card is good and not being
used from a place near the graveyard in Nigeria. I ran that card
through my system after I seriously got that as a shipping address for
an order and of course, the card was bogus.

--And to be fair, I do know some people who do not send until the
charge has gone through.

As a former poster said, I personally do not charge until the product
is in the mail, sometimes even days later cuz I am the whole office
staff. I hate to say this out loud and test the karma, but we have
never been ripped off, thank you universe.

with aloha,
Cea
smithfarms.com
Farmers of 100% Kona Coffee
& other Great Stuff

don't some credit card companies make this be part of their contract with
the merchant?