12-22-2008, 08:35 PM
I've told this story before, but it relates to this. My sister got married several years ago and since her bridesmaids were located throughout the country she decided to order some inexpensive skirts from David's bridal and let each girl pick out her own top for the skirt.
I went to the local store to pick up 3 of the skirts. The total was under $200 and I put it on my Visa. The woman ran the card, looked at the display thing and made a call. She talked to whomever for a moment, looked at me and said "They want to speak with you." "They? Who is they?", I said. She replied it was Visa.
Now my head was spinning a bit. The charge was not significant, I was nowhere near my limit and I was on time with my payments. When I got on the phone the Visa rep said she needed to verify that I was really dmann. She asked some questions and once she was satisfied I was indeed the card holder she let me go and the charge went through.
When I got out to the parking lot I called back to try and figure out what had happened. Apparently, Visa had identified an unusually high number of fraudulent charges run through David's Bridal nationwide and they had taken to verifying most purchases done there.
I definitely felt that shopping there reflected negatively on me in the eyes of the CC company and that was very strange.
DM
I went to the local store to pick up 3 of the skirts. The total was under $200 and I put it on my Visa. The woman ran the card, looked at the display thing and made a call. She talked to whomever for a moment, looked at me and said "They want to speak with you." "They? Who is they?", I said. She replied it was Visa.
Now my head was spinning a bit. The charge was not significant, I was nowhere near my limit and I was on time with my payments. When I got on the phone the Visa rep said she needed to verify that I was really dmann. She asked some questions and once she was satisfied I was indeed the card holder she let me go and the charge went through.
When I got out to the parking lot I called back to try and figure out what had happened. Apparently, Visa had identified an unusually high number of fraudulent charges run through David's Bridal nationwide and they had taken to verifying most purchases done there.
I definitely felt that shopping there reflected negatively on me in the eyes of the CC company and that was very strange.
DM