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Subject: BS: Credit Card expiry month is a lie From: Mr Red Date: 30 Aug 18 - 07:07 AM due to a catalogue of unfortunate mishaps (postal, festivals etc) my credit card expired with no replacement actually arriving. Yet. 1) the expiry declared on the card it 8/18 - 2) the card became blocked yesterday 2018/08/29 Clearly they have chosen to simplify their software to only count days numbered 1 to 28 because of February. But when did they warn me of this? Given that their system knows I haven't registered a new card - it is not beyond the wit of a whole department to figure such software to send an automated secure message. It is on the cards I would be logging-in to their website to look for clues/messages and tell them to sort out the new card. AND while I was chatting to them could they not remind me? That would keep their software simple. Yea Yea why don't I tell them? 1) there is a time-out that logs you out if no activity for a while. Writing a secure (considered and polite) message is clearly not considered activity! - 2) Perhaps I should have vent my spleen without consideration. The credit card is called Smile. Not right now I ain't. :( |
Subject: RE: BS: Credit Card expiry month is a lie From: Senoufou Date: 30 Aug 18 - 07:46 AM How infuriating Mr Red. Will this affect your credit rating in any way? (Having a card blocked) They shouldn't be called 'Smile'. I suggest 'Fume'. |
Subject: RE: BS: Credit Card expiry month is a lie From: Mr Red Date: 30 Aug 18 - 07:57 AM Won't affect credit rating, the card just expired, but not on the 1st September, on the 29th of August. Once the card was refused I connected why immediately. Before, I imagined I had a couple of days to go. I posted more as a warning for peeps who might find themselve in similar circumstances. WHo knows what other credit card companies do? |
Subject: RE: BS: Credit Card expiry month is a lie From: Manitas_at_home Date: 30 Aug 18 - 08:04 AM I've had cards declined a month before expiry. I don't believe it was the bank declining them but the company I was trying to buy from. |
Subject: RE: BS: Credit Card expiry month is a lie From: Thompson Date: 30 Aug 18 - 05:01 PM If you want to write a considered and polite complaint, write it first in your word processor, then paste it in. (If it won't past in in full, send a series, ended with (continued) on each one till the last. |
Subject: RE: BS: Credit Card expiry month is a lie From: Mr Red Date: 31 Aug 18 - 07:40 AM Yea that was the plan - I hadn't considered the (continued) wheeze and it may be more effective to keep it to their limit. Punchy. |
Subject: RE: BS: Credit Card expiry month is a lie From: Mr Red Date: 31 Aug 18 - 05:36 PM New card arrived today. Now I can get on with changing the auto-payment details on my two web service providers. And other immediate payments like the tickets for Blowzabella Eurobal. |
Subject: RE: BS: Credit Card expiry month is a lie From: Noreen Date: 01 Sep 18 - 08:33 AM Thank heavens for that. I was on the edge of my seat there. |
Subject: RE: BS: Credit Card expiry month is a lie From: DMcG Date: 01 Sep 18 - 08:43 AM One of the sneakiest little computer bugs I was involved in tracking down - I did not originate it, honest! - concerned dates on a web page. JavaScript numbers months from 0 whereas ASP.NET numbers them from 1. So the function "tomorrow's date" (eg 27->28) worked for most days in most months, but went wrong at the end (eg June 30's tomorrow is 1, whereas July's is 31). But - since it was a Monday-to-Friday system - many months it went unnoticed. And, if people didn't get round to checking it for a day or two, we were in the next month and everything worked fine ... |
Subject: RE: BS: Credit Card expiry month is a lie From: FreddyHeadey Date: 06 Sep 18 - 07:53 PM ! Noreen - what's Scouse for lol? |