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Can't find mine, not in the usual spots, and I did enough travelling around since I last knew I had it in my hand that if I dropped it out in public, that fucker's gone.... so I initiated a replacement over citi.com.

There were no unauthorized charges, which makes me cringe thinking it might just be somewhere in the house....

But it took me maybe 3 clicks to cancel the old and have a new one shipped, and they gave me the new credentials right then on the webpage, so I didn't have to wait to update recurring-charge accounts.

WHich I just did.... 14 damned accounts. Jesus. That feels like a lot.

GORDON wrote: But it took me maybe 3 clicks to cancel the old and have a new one shipped, and they gave me the new credentials right then on the webpage, so I didn't have to wait to update recurring-charge accounts.

Yeah, it's so frequent these days they make it easy.

GORDON wrote: WHich I just did.... 14 damned accounts. Jesus. That feels like a lot.

I changed banks last year, and it was terrible. At least 20 of those connections or autopays. And of course I forgot one or two.

My wife had one go bad a few weeks ago. Bank immediately sent out a new one. We're still waiting for it.

The mail is fucked up around here because of the C-19 situation in Detroit.

Leisher wrote: My wife had one go bad a few weeks ago. Bank immediately sent out a new one. We're still waiting for it.

The mail is fucked up around here because of the C-19 situation in Detroit.

I haven't noticed any particular issues, but we definitely seem to be getting less mail than pre-virus.

Apparently in Detroit so many postal workers have it that those who don't are refusing to show up to work for fear of catching it.

New card is here already.

Still haven't found the old one.

Fucking Detroit.

Calling the bank...

oh hay there's my credit card

Gah... our main credit card information got stolen somehow. Yyyaaaaayyyyy. Time to cancel and update a bunch of recurring payments.

That sucks.

I truly think they should assign credit card and identity theft as punishable by death.

Gordon will second that.

Seconded. One doesn't accidentally commit credit fraud.

GORDON wrote: Seconded. One doesn't accidentally commit credit fraud.

Thirded

And the first of my recurring charges has failed. yyyaaayyy.

OK, does anyone here use a debit card for anything, or regularly?

Cuz, if you do, it's stupid and you should stop.

This sounds familiar.

Agree. What sparked this?

Yeah, I see she put it on fb.

For at least 2 decades I've been vocal about the rule of never using a debit card for purchases. So.

GORDON wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 12:18 pm Yeah, I see she put it on fb.

For at least 2 decades I've been vocal about the rule of never using a debit card for purchases. So.

Gordo's ex.

She uses her debit card for everything, doesn't even have a credit card, and the inevitable happened. Debit card got cloned/hacked/whatevered, and now she can't do anything.

She did a financial restructuring a while back, so the debit card is what she has.

Personally, I'd be using pre-paid cards before I used my debit card.

GORDON wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 12:25 pm She did a financial restructuring a while back, so the debit card is what she has.

Ah.

GORDON wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 12:25 pm Personally, I'd be using pre-paid cards before I used my debit card.

Debit cards have more protections than prepaid, but at least your loss is tied up in a pre-paid/you can still get to your other money.