Posted on 02/10/2011 7:57:16 PM PST by EveningStar
Heh, yes, they can ask all they want, but it takes only the willing to give them the information. Are we a bunch of sheep or can we just say NO! Would be probably shocked to find out that over 50% just give them their zip code... We have become the sheep that we despise...
My billing address is a PO Box in a different ZIP (in a lower demographic — haha for market research) from where I live (the box is owned by my company). Since that billing address is to be found nowhere in my wallet, a thief stealing my wallet would not be able to use my card for card-not-present purchases (online, phone, mail). I get my statements online, so my billing address is pretty much irrelevant to me.
I’ve noted it depends on the store. Circle-K in my area always asks for it at the pump. It’s the first place for gas on my way home from work, so I fill up there a couple of times a month. Not a problem with me.
The bitch from MA-05 would agree with the liberal
and disagree with the Unfortunately
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(I looked it up, hoping to have an excuse to post a faggot foto, only to find out it's in 5, not 4.)
I always tell them a different zip.
I’ve often heard it’s illegal to ask for ID from a credit card customer. Or if not illegal, the cc company rules don’t allow the merchant to ask for ID.
I stopped shopping at RadioShack a few years ago because of the nosy questions.
The Supreme Court — protecting We the People from insignificant threats, ignoring the real ones.
Depending on what store you go in and whether or not you are using cash they will ask for zip code, telephone number, or email. Regardless of which one they ask for I just say ‘no’.
Been lurking here a long time.... Live across the border from you (north) but have to travel to the States regularly on business.
DBrow: “With a little more work they can send junk mail to you since you already expressed an interest in their product line.”
I noticed that soon after Staples started asking for ZIP codes, I _stopped_ getting circulars in the mail. Rural area with low population density...
I do, too, at some stores, such as a major chain that specializes in electronics. I usually tell them it's 90002--beautiful downtown Watts, Calif.
Well, welcome to Free Republic.
Warning. This place is habit forming.
Even though the site is copyrighted, you can post an excerpt of 300 words. The software on the posting page will bear this out.
Responsibility2nd, I’m with you. There are way too many drive by posters here who throw down one or two sentences from an article and consider it posted.
Use the 300 words we are allowed.
Evening Star, even though the site is copyrighted, that may not mean you must excerpt. For example, much of the content on Townhall.com is copyrighted. Yet you can post an entire townhall.com article here on FR with no problem. Kaslin does it all the time.
The software that runs the posting page will alert you when an article must be excerpted.
OH My father get carded on that he is 72 year old LOL!
Good system - cuts down on fraud.
That’s real. Sudbury, MA. Easy to remember when you’re a kid.
I will. He lived within walking distance of the Wayside Inn and Mary’s Schoolhouse. It is a pretty part of the country. His grandparents lived in Greenfield, and HATED the Kennedys, btw.
My folks and most of the extended family hated the Kennedys, too. Military service and working in DOD accounting (my dad), and my FBI agent uncle saw right through the crap. My family were devout Catholics and were furious and disgusted with the way the Kennedys played the Church like a prize fiddle.
That's often true. They want to determine if there's another location they could open a successful store. It's no big deal. Only once, to my recollection, have I been asked at a store for my zip code and the clerk was clear it was for planning future stores. They did in fact later open a much closer store. It was their third location.
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