Buying a locking mailbox

[CosmicCowboy]

Apparently not.

[Reck]

CC?

Dont they have to activate it by calling from your home phone number?

This.

In my experience, you have to call from the phone you put down when you first applied for it.

[pgardn]

Apparently not.

WTF?

I some times use different cards for air miles for work/vacation juxtaposition. Comes in handy. But every card I have ever had requires you call from a phone number you have given them? Every card I have ever had anyway? And when I have had a card get a false claim and close the account and get a new one, you MUST reactivate it using your phone?

Im Seriously confused on this one. The above seems like a very good way to prevent what happened to you.

[DarrinS]

I hate getting sent credit cards. I put them through my shredder.

[pgardn]

This.

In my experience, you have to call from the phone you put down when you first applied for it.

Yes.
It a very good preventative method. Unless someone got his address and phone number, that's an inside job. This is not a crook just randomly going through mail.

[pgardn]

I hate getting sent credit cards. I put them through my shredder.

I never get sent them unless I apply.
I get forms to apply, and shred those.

[Stan]

[CosmicCowboy]

Meh. We normally just use one cash back card but my wife was making a big purchase and could save $200 by opening a store/mastercard. We were going to cancel it as soon as I paid the bill but when the actual card came in the mail the dude/dudette stole it.

[AaronY]

This isn't a big timer thread from CC at all.

But he does make them

[Blake]

This isn't a big timer thread from CC at all.

But he does make them

Nobody said it was except for Iurko.

[sickdsm]

I hate getting sent credit cards. I put them through my shredder.

Yes, we hate getting paid 2% cash back for every single purchase also......

[spurraider21]

I never get sent them unless I apply.
I get forms to apply, and shred those.

yeah sometimes those forms have a fake display card that darrin may be mistaking for credit cards.

[spurraider21]

Yes, we hate getting paid 2% cash back for every single purchase also......

tbh... tho he was probably referring to getting CC apps in the mail when you already have cards getting you 2% back

also wells fargo cash wise card has a nifty promo where you get $200 cash back if you make $1000 of purchases in your first 3 months (and then 1.5% on everything after that)... which is a nice little 20% return. other than that i use citi double cash card which is just flat 2% on everything

[RandomGuy]

Once we went through all the bull the cc conpany knocked two grand of charges off and didnt even blink.

They don't care. They are making enough money to write off this kind of stuff.

A lot of criminal gangs and so forth have started using stolen information bought from aggregators, often Russian mafya operations, to buy guns and stuff. Fascinating stuff.

[spurraider21]

They don't care. They are making enough money to write off this kind of stuff.

A lot of criminal gangs and so forth have started using stolen information bought from aggregators, often Russian mafya operations, to buy guns and stuff. Fascinating stuff.

i get there's a cost of doing business, but there has to be a better way