I had to go to Office Depot yesterday to pick up some binders for one of my projects. I got into like behind a guy paying by credit card. The cashier took the credit card, asked for ID, and then took a long look the ID and credit card. "Is this your real name?", the cashier asked. The man said that it was.
So now I have to make the decision - do I mind my own business or do I ask this guy what his name is? I knew that I would forever wonder if his name was Dwayne Pipe, Bill Ding, Chris P. Cream, Noah Ho, or Chris Anthemun so I asked. It was Rocky Rhodes. I'm sure he got the "are you kidding me?" face from me. "You'll never forget my name, will you?", he said. You're right about that, Rocky. Seriously, what parent thinks that's a good idea? For 45 years, this guy has gotten the "are you kidding me?" face from everyone he's introduced himself to or who's looked at his ID. That would be like us naming our kid Rainbow.
UPDATE: Check out the second comment I received... they are not playing around.
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3 comments:
I agree naming your kid raimbow bright would be awful. I wonder what his parents were thinking when he was born that is just awful. Hope things are going well for you guys
The cashier had no business asking for the customer's ID. It is a violation of the store's merchant agreement with the credit card companies to require ID for credit card purchases. There is no telling what personal information was memorized from all of the time that this cashier was studying the ID. You can't be too careful with your personal information and the ID has virtually every piece of data necessary for someone to take a person's identity.
Chapter 9.11.2 (2-21 of the paper version, page 48 in the PDF) of the MasterCard merchant rules which can be found at the link below states:
http://www.mastercard.com/us/wce/PDF/12999_MERC-Entire_Manual.pdf
"A merchant must not refuse to complete a MasterCard card transaction solely because a cardholder who has complied with the conditions for presentiment at the poi refuses to provide additional identification information..."
Additionally, the below MasterCard site solicits reports of merchants/retailers who require identification for card transactions: http://www.mastercard.com/contactus/contactus_mv.html
Visa also has a merchant guidelines book posted which has the following statement on Requesting Cardholder ID which can be found on print page 29 or page (34 of 143) of the PDF file at http://merchants.visa.com/accepting/pdfs/Card_Acceptance_and_Chargeback_Guidelines.pdf :
“Although Visa Rules do not preclude merchants from asking for cardholder ID, merchants cannot make an ID a condition of acceptance. Therefore, merchants cannot refuse to complete a purchase transaction because a cardholder refuses to provide ID. Visa believes merchants should not ask for ID as part of their regular card acceptance procedures.”
Furthermore, Visa’s operating regulations website discusses the proper card acceptance procedure and it clearly states that if the back of the card is signed, that the merchant is to compare signatures, with the only time to ask for ID being if the back of the card is not signed:
http://usa.visa.com/merchants/risk_management/card_present.html
I went to elementary through high school with Jim Beam. I am totally serious.
Hey, if I could track down Rocky and get the two of them together, it would be my perfect Sat. night - alcohol and ice cream!
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