Comments on: Meriem’s red roses The highs and lows of running ArenaFlowers.com, warts and all. And other stuff. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:52:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: Samwise of the front end http://www.arenaflowers.com/blog/2007/05/25/meriems-red-roses/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Samwise of the front end Tue, 29 May 2007 06:39:46 +0000 http://www.arenaflowers.com/blog/?p=47#comment-7 <p>In many ways you are right. This should actually fall under the "why the banking system is rubbish" category.</p> <p>I would dearly love to wax lyrical about how this particular transaction was authorised by the bank however, in doing so I would be leaking one of banking's (previously) best kept secrets. This would also subject us to other similar attempts.</p> <p>Know this, the guy who owned the card saw a large amount of money on his statement and of course rang up his bank, they then did a chargeback which not only took the money back from us but also charged us and PayPal a handing fee. </p> <p>So we are out of pocket twice and get charged a handling fee. This is why there are fewer branches - less of an incentive for us to go round there and give them a good shoeing!</p> <p>Oh and no recourse at all - your mum could use your card and you could do a chargeback.</p> <p>Email me and I will explain why no one is safe!</p> In many ways you are right. This should actually fall under the “why the banking system is rubbish” category.

I would dearly love to wax lyrical about how this particular transaction was authorised by the bank however, in doing so I would be leaking one of banking’s (previously) best kept secrets. This would also subject us to other similar attempts.

Know this, the guy who owned the card saw a large amount of money on his statement and of course rang up his bank, they then did a chargeback which not only took the money back from us but also charged us and PayPal a handing fee.

So we are out of pocket twice and get charged a handling fee. This is why there are fewer branches – less of an incentive for us to go round there and give them a good shoeing!

Oh and no recourse at all – your mum could use your card and you could do a chargeback.

Email me and I will explain why no one is safe!

]]> By: Adrian http://www.arenaflowers.com/blog/2007/05/25/meriems-red-roses/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Adrian Mon, 28 May 2007 21:45:41 +0000 http://www.arenaflowers.com/blog/?p=47#comment-6 <p>So does that fall more under scam than fraud?</p> <p>Do you not have some recourse as you know who ordered the flowers, who the friend was and who the flowers went to?</p> So does that fall more under scam than fraud?

Do you not have some recourse as you know who ordered the flowers, who the friend was and who the flowers went to?

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