Advice on a shop retaining a card.

System

most retailers have the old fashioned card /carbon set up as a standby in case of problems.

arcon5

CHRISSYG wrote: »

most retailers have the old fashioned card /carbon set up as a standby in case of problems.

That's if they can figure out how to use them. I have two of the devices still in boxes somewhere which never came with instructions, can't for the life of my figure out how it works

agrinnall

arcon5 wrote: »

That's if they can figure out how to use them. I have two of the devices still in boxes somewhere which never came with instructions, can't for the life of my figure out how it works

Please tell me you're joking about this! Surely nobody with an ounce of sense could fail to work out how to use one even if it takes a couple of trial goes.

Esqui

Think I can just about remember how to do ours!

Tinkerbell_Lily

I actually used to work in a well known nightclub in Central London & if our card machines failed then we would get one of the door staff to walk with them to a cash machine to get the cash out, the only way in which they would be allowed to keep your card is if the card needed authorisation & we needed to call the bank and they told us to keep it (in which case it would normally mean the card has been cloned & is a fake).

Not saying she had a fake card but that's the only time they are allowed to keep them so i'd get writing that letter & not bother going back again!

Enfieldian

Tinkerbell_Lily wrote: »

I actually used to work in a well known nightclub in Central London & if our card machines failed then we would get one of the door staff to walk with them to a cash machine to get the cash out,

Was this a "club" in Soho? It certainly sounds like it........

Tinkerbell_Lily

No, it was a 'well known' strip club though in Covent Garden!

Flyboy152

DCFC79 wrote: »

Lol was there much point in asking for half drunk drinks back, they couldnt exactly resell them as they would be flat etc.

It sounds like an establishment that might just do that. We used to all it "alage."

Flyboy152

CHRISSYG wrote: »

most retailers have the old fashioned card /carbon set up as a standby in case of problems.

That might have been the case for business that were in existence before nineteen ninety-five or so. In fact, most businesses would have thrown those out years ago, as the credit card merchant processing companies would have stopped issuing and accepting the slips years ago.

Flyboy152

Tinkerbell_Lily wrote: »

I actually used to work in a well known nightclub in Central London & if our card machines failed then we would get one of the door staff to walk with them to a cash machine to get the cash out, the only way in which they would be allowed to keep your card is if the card needed authorisation & we needed to call the bank and they told us to keep it (in which case it would normally mean the card has been cloned & is a fake).

Not saying she had a fake card but that's the only time they are allowed to keep them so i'd get writing that letter & not bother going back again!

I wouldn't like to test the legalities of such actions, it might be considered to be harassment.