MasterCard/Visa rules

[starrc]

Did you know, that while retailers *can* ask you to show your ID when you use your MasterCard or Visa at checkout, they can NOT make it a REQUIREMENT for completing the transaction?

Check it outWhile at SuperTarget last night, buying Birthday clothes with the teenager, I swiped my MasterCard Debit card for the $138 transaction. The smarmy clerk

Comments

[meamgrimlock]

Now, see -
I have the opposite problem.

The Signature block on the back of all my Cards says 'See Identification.' (For the record, according to the credit agreement between you and your card provider, this technically invalidates the card.)

Most clerks take the card, look at the signature block, look at me like I've sprouted a second head, assume that if I'm handing them a card that says 'See ID' that I am, in fact, who I say I am, and hand me back the card without ever asking to see my ID.

And allow me to hijack your block at this point with the following soapbox addenddum:

I hate, hate, hate the 'do it yourself' Card readers that permeate nearly every retail establishment these days. Maybe I'm very much in the minority when it comes to this, but I want to physically hand my card to a cashier, have the cashier look at my ID and Signatures, make sure everything looks kosher, zap my card for the transaction, then hand it back to me.

This makes me feel good. Like they might actually catch it if someone were to steal my card and try to use it.