[net.consumers] Check Verification

abc@brl-tgr.ARPA (Brint Cooper ) (09/16/84)

> 
> What is worse than having to give a credit card and liscence for check
> identification is having the clerk run off with check,credit card 
> and liscense  to find his/her boss to verify
> it(what does their boss know about my check that they don't?).  
> My husband insists on going with them-they are amused most of the time,
> but when he did it at Field's and Lord and Taylor, they were annoyed.


Right on!  I have done exactly the same thing.  Most store personnel
simply don't understand it.  They don't trust us.  Why should we trust
them?  I think that EVERYONE should keep hold of his documents, allowing
the clerks only to copy the information from them.  Further, I refuse to
show  a credit card (don't want the numbers all over the place).  I use
a plastic bank machine card that isn't even valid anymore.  They're so
stupid, they don't know the difference?
Brint