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- From: fowlerc@boulder.colorado.edu (John C. Fowler)
- Subject: Re: Phone numbers?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.162317.12610@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:23:17 GMT
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- In article <Jan26.010425.23936@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> millerje@CS.ColoState.EDU (Jeff Miller) writes:
- >My question is: Are you under any obligation to give a phone number for a
- >check purchase? Do companies use this phone number (on your check) in the same
- >way they do on credit cards?
-
- The reason you don't have to give out a phone number for most credit card
- purchases is that the contract the merchant signs with the bank/creditors
- forbids him/her to require it (but he/she is allowed to ask). There is no
- such contract with checks. A merchant could legally require you to stand
- on your head while singing the Star-Spangled Banner and juggling automobile
- parts to use a check.
-
- In my experience, the phone number is there only to contact you if the check
- bounces. Although it's suspected that merchants compile telemarketing
- lists, I've never met one who did.
-
- --
- John C. Fowler, fowlerc@boulder.colorado.edu
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