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PaladinGamesNHobbies - > World in My Eyes -> Beware the Practices of the Businesses You Use!
Beware the Practices of the Businesses You Use!
On Sat 8/25 I went to EZ Lube on White Ln to have my oil changed. They did a pretty good job, fast. No complaints there.
I paid with my credit card. I watched the employee run the card through the CC machine, then she started entering something into the computer. I looked at the screen and realized she had typed in my CC #! I asked why she was doing that. She answered, "It's our policy". I told her I do not wish for them to have my CC # on file. Another employee began to argue, stating that they cannot access the number, that it is simply "sent to corporate". I responded that their intent for it doesn't matter to me, they do not need my CC #! After a bit more back and forth in which I loudly question the legality of such a practice, they do replace the # with x's. I could not believe it!
As I drove away, I wondered how many CC #s they must harvest from their customers every day.  People NEED to know that a business as innocuous as an oil change station may be helping themselves to a bit more information than you intend for them to...
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Topics: rant, business, bad, EZ LUBE, oil change, Bakersfield
posted by PaladinGamesNHobbies on Saturday, September 1, 2007 at 11:01 PM
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posted by twinkie on Sep 4, 2007 at 08:18 AM
holy smokes. that's kinda scary. I don't see why there is a need for your numbers UNLESS that's how they get your name and address and then they sell that information to companies (can anymore say MORE JUNK MAIL????) it's a growing business, that whole sell your info. That's why if you buy even just a subscription to a magazine all of a sudden you get tons more offers in the mail for more shit you don't want.
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