Comments on: Update from the spinster compound

By: Jezebella

Jezebella — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:12:34 +0000

Frumious, the POINT is that some people are not able to get non-debit Visa cards because they are broke or have bad credit. And so, sometimes, they must use their debit cards if they wish to purchase something on the internet. See?

By: Frumious B.

Frumious B. — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:49:58 +0000

“Gee, that’s great advice if the only way you can get a Visa isn’t a debit card.”

I assure you that it is possible to get a Visa which is not a debit card. I know, because I have one.

By: Givesgoodemail

Givesgoodemail — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:35:37 +0000

“Gee, that’s great advice if the only way you can get a Visa isn’t a debit card.”
Yet another way that Canadian financial systems make the American ones look like hoof-trodden, weather-beaten cow patties.
Nonetheless, debit card piracy is far more difficult to entangle (usually) than credit card piracy. If you can, get a low-limit credit card (even with their extortionist interest rates) and pay that puppy off every month. Your Intertubz buying will be far safer.

By: Antoinette Niebieszczanski

Antoinette Niebieszczanski — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:37:59 +0000

A course it was deliberate; what else?

This happened to me about six years ago, to the tune of $350. It turned out to be some kid playing gambling games. My financial institution kicked the money back to me almost immediately — they were great. The worst bummer of the whole experience was having to do the police report. The cop who was supposed to help me was an insulting, condescending, woman-hating fartbag. If I passed him flaming in the street, I’d not spit on him to put him out.

Hope Frannie mends quickly. Being young and in excellent health, her spirits oughtta be on the rise soon.

By: Mukherjee

Mukherjee — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:33:17 +0000

That’s outrageous. I hope you can get everything sorted out with your bank as soon as possible.

By: wiggles

wiggles — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:10:16 +0000

Gee, that’s great advice if the only way you can get a Visa isn’t a debit card.

I was thrown by that one too. I don’t understand how it’s any different from using a credit card online, since credit cards are also linked to bank accounts, though accounts of a different sort.
I once had my credit locked down as Gayle advises above and it made using my credit cards a bit of a pain at the time, so there may be some trade-off between convenience and safety in that route.

Meanwhile, if I may be indulged in some irrelevant venting, I’m thrilled to report that I was awoken this morning by the soothing sounds of power tools being drilled into the other side of my apartment wall. Making this experience especially special is the fact that when I went next door to point out the fact that it’s 8am on a Saturday, and a holiday weekend at that, the dude with the power drill slammed the door in my face. I complained to management, who professionally blew a lot of smoke up my keister. When I let slip my hypothesis that the guy wouldn’t have slammed the door in my face if I had been male, I was assured that that had nothing to do with it. Dudes dismiss other dudes’ complaints and slam doors in each other’s faces all the time, I’m sure. The fact that I’ve never seen such an occurrence in my entire life is a huge coincidence. In my groggy and increasingly frustrated state, I did utter a swear word, and this appears to have been taken by building management as the most egregious offense in this whole exchange – or maybe the second-most egregious next to asserting the possibility that a construction worker could be sexist.

By: Squiggy

Squiggy — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:39:14 +0000

Bummin’ for you and your puppy over here. Bummed out as well for the domestic, large- breasted-bred, version of meleagris gallopavo this time of year. Happy that people get together and all, but wonder why it has to include the torture and murder of millions of pets. What if dogs and cats, culturally, had been deemed the sacrificial, delicious beast in the center of the picturesque, evocative traditional dinner? Everybody would be disgusted at the ‘radicals’ saying that it was wrong to murder Felix and Prince. ‘It’s tradition! It’s delicious! So shut up!’ might have been a frequent reaction.

By: slythwolf

slythwolf — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:32:58 +0000

Rule of Internet thumb: never use your debit card to pay for anything online. As Jill has undoubtedly found out, your liability isn’t any greater, but since such a card is tied directly to a bank account, it takes months to straighten things out.

Gee, that’s great advice if the only way you can get a Visa isn’t a debit card.

By: Comrade PhysioProf

Comrade PhysioProf — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:19:20 +0000

Fanny is totally fucking SOMBR!!!111!!EXPLOSHUN!11!!1!!INFINITY!@111!!!11!!

By: Gayle

Gayle — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:07:01 +0000

Your bank should be making calls to merchants. All you need to do is report yourself a victim of ID theft and dispute the charges through your card/s. I recommend changing out all your account #s, BTW, not just the one you know was nicked. (Unless you’re 100% sure that’s the only compromised account.)

As a victim of ID theft, you can protect your credit. Call Experion or one of the other agencies and they will offer you a free 3 month credit watch. Tell them you’ll take that service but you also want them to lock down your credit immediately. In some states you can do this for free; in others you have to pay a nominal fee but it’s worth it. The credit agencies also offer credit monitoring services. They cost between 10 and 15 dollars a month.

The good news is the porn merchants will end up eating the charges. This is probably why the dude on the phone insisted your non-existent porn sick hubby made the purchases.