On Fri, 5 May 2017 00:40:19 -0000 (UTC), Diesel
wrote:

Micky
Thu, 04 May 2017
21:24:22 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

First, is there a newsgroup that specializes in banking, or
commerce, or business, or anything for which this would be
on-topic? And where people might know the answer to what I
think is a very strange question?

I answered your original question awhile ago...


I don't remember and I looked and coudn't find it. Could you tell me
again of a newsgroup like that, or someplace people really know about
these things.

And you may remember my complaining about being charged $110 for a
car that only holds 10 gallons of gasoline, when every other gas
station charged between 50 and 57. Did I mention that the
overcharge happened twice, 110.19 and 109.74.

Yep. So, how long did you have to wait to get a new card? Since you
had the pin changed...Or, did you go in a local branch and fix it?

I didn't lose the card, and the PIN wasn't involved in these charges.
At none of the gas stations do they ask for the pin or have me enter
it, and at only one of the stations did they ask for my signature.

When you pump it yourself, they do ask for you ID number, which I'm
told is mostly for cases when the gas is a deductible business expense
(and therefore if you enter a number that's no good, it doesn't hurt
them, only possibly you yourself, but not me since my gas is not a
deduction), and your license plate number, which I think has to do
with if you reverse the credit card charge, or maybe the card is
stolen so they can't use its info to find you, but at least they can
find the car.


But by the time I got back, it was after 5, so I called the bank
in the US.

I feel for the person who took that call. I really do.

That's sweet of you.

I didnt' believe that, but I looked at the online monthly
statement, and by golly it was true. What's going on? Why are
they sending me emails saying I paid much more money than I did?

Your monthly statement is the only one you need to be concerned with.
And, it's not your actual transaction history, but, I already covered
this.

And what is the relationship?. The first one is 2.46 times the
real charge, but the second is 3.19 times the real charge!!

I suspect i'd be wasting my time explaining what happened. based on
prior post to you. that, as far as I can tell, you didn't respond to.

I looked in the thread about gas and so forth and didn't find any
posts by you that tried to explain this.

Now I have to go look at all the other gas station emails and
compare them with the monthly statement , and with the receipt
fromn the gas station.

Why? You have your monthly statement, right? That's what you *should*
be going by.

Why send me alerts if they are just going to be misleading? Why send
alerts about holds if they don't send an alert for the actual charge?
Why send alerts about holds but not call them holds, and why not send
one when the hold is lifted?. One would think email notification
just started 6 months ago and they havent' figured anything out yet.

Why? You have your monthly statement, right? That's what you *should*
be going by.


Why send me alerts if they are just going to be misleading? Why send
alerts about holds if they don't send an alert for the actual charge?
Why send alerts about holds but not call them holds, and why not send
one when the hold is lifted?. One would think email notification
just started 6 months ago and they havent' figured anything out yet.


Questions that you could, perhaps, ask the credit card company ?
Duh Huh ...
John T.

On Fri, 05 May 2017 06:08:35 -0400, wrote:



Why? You have your monthly statement, right? That's what you *should*
be going by.


Why send me alerts if they are just going to be misleading? Why send
alerts about holds if they don't send an alert for the actual charge?
Why send alerts about holds but not call them holds, and why not send
one when the hold is lifted?. One would think email notification
just started 6 months ago and they havent' figured anything out yet.


Questions that you could, perhaps, ask the credit card company ?
Duh Huh ...
John T.

I will. Writing it about it here helps me organize my thoughts, prior
to my assault on the great lump of clay, when I get back to the
States. Lump of clay meaning nothing will change. I did find a
banking forum by bankers for bankers, and one short thread rougly on
this subject, about what was required by law.. Only two answers and
the second was that there is no point to doing more than the law
requires. Of course pleasing the customer might be a reason, but iiuc
he didn't think so.