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haulingthescoreup wrote:Per the agreement the merchants have with Visa and MC (don't know about the others), they're not supposed to ask for ID. They're supposed to compare signatures.
When asked, I show them ID, but I tell them (with a smile) that they're not supposed to. Confuses the heck out of them. But I'm not going to hold up a line at checkout by refusing to show ID.
Out of all the millions of times I've stood in lines, listening to the cashier ask to check ID, I've never heard anyone say, Sorry, your ID doesn't match and call the manager. Not once.
my gf & i use our cards interchangeably. haven't had anyone try to arrest us yet 
laz98 wrote:
haulingthescoreup wrote:Per the agreement the merchants have with Visa and MC (don't know about the others), they're not supposed to ask for ID. They're supposed to compare signatures.
When asked, I show them ID, but I tell them (with a smile) that they're not supposed to. Confuses the heck out of them. But I'm not going to hold up a line at checkout by refusing to show ID.
Out of all the millions of times I've stood in lines, listening to the cashier ask to check ID, I've never heard anyone say, Sorry, your ID doesn't match and call the manager. Not once.
my gf & i use our cards interchangeably. haven't had anyone try to arrest us yet
I think those places that do ask for ID only do it for the scare factor and not because they really check.
O6 wrote:
laz98 wrote:
haulingthescoreup wrote:Per the agreement the merchants have with Visa and MC (don't know about the others), they're not supposed to ask for ID. They're supposed to compare signatures.
When asked, I show them ID, but I tell them (with a smile) that they're not supposed to. Confuses the heck out of them. But I'm not going to hold up a line at checkout by refusing to show ID.
Out of all the millions of times I've stood in lines, listening to the cashier ask to check ID, I've never heard anyone say, Sorry, your ID doesn't match and call the manager. Not once.
my gf & i use our cards interchangeably. haven't had anyone try to arrest us yet
I think those places that do ask for ID only do it for the scare factor and not because they really check.
that's probably true. most don't look at them very long. i think they just match names. not much they could do about me using my mom's cards, i guess, since we have the same name!
haulingthescoreup wrote:
Out of all the millions of times I've stood in lines, listening to the cashier ask to check ID, I've never heard anyone say, Sorry, your ID doesn't match and call the manager. Not once.
I work in retail. Very rarely do we even handle the cards anymore. Most stores just have you slide it through their machine on your own. The only time i check ID is if someone hands me their card and it says see ID, expensive purchases, or if something seems out of the ordinary. We have declined people using relatives/friends cards before. There are also times that people will tell us their ID is in the car never to come back again. The only time we would call a manager is if the person gets irate, otherwise we'll just ask for another form of payment.
The real scary part is they no longer require signatures for certain purchases. The store I work at does not require signatures for any purchase under $50 (and it keeps going up). So someone could take your card and continue to ring up bills of $49.99 and we would be none the wiser. All in order to cut down on the extra 2 seconds it takes for someone to sign a paper on on the screens.
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