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- From: lchoqu@asylum.cs.utah.edu (Lee Choquette)
- Subject: Re: Making a purchase with a check
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.224451.10604@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Keywords: check credit cards
- Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu
- Organization: University of Utah Computer Science
- References: <1993Jan18.145438.25150@MITL.COM> <1jhu6gINNpvu@uwm.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 22:44:51 GMT
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- Around here, many merchants want a "check guarantee card." My check guarantee
- card has the Visa logo, but says "Checking Card" right on it, so I suppose Visa
- can't have any objection to it being used to cover a check. The merchants here
- just write the 16-digit card number and expiration date on the check. Does
- anyone know how this service works, and whether it costs the merchant an extra
- fee? When I lived four months in Illinois, the stores there had never heard of
- a bank-issued check guarantee card, but each grocery chain had their own
- checking card. How widespread are "check guarantee cards"?
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- . . . . Lee Choquette . . . . . . . . . .Eat dessert first. . . . . . . .
- . . . .lchoqu@cs.utah.edu . . . . . . . . Life is so uncertain. . . . . .
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