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UNBELIEVABLE! US mint allowed my card to be charged for someone elses coins!

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  • CoinHuskerCoinHusker Posts: 5,033 ✭✭✭
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    So, what'd ya buy?
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  • SmittysSmittys Posts: 9,876 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It funny they cancelled my order because of a little address mistake.
    They cancel orders or put them on hold it every T isn't crossed and every i dotted
  • BigEBigE Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭
    Someone just gave them my name and asked that 2 GAE sets be sent to their address, and they did it. No credit card info, no nothing, plus I have been on hold for 20 min!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!----------------BigE
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    So, what'd ya buy? >>



    The better question would be what'd someone else buy? image
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    Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies.
  • GATGAT Posts: 3,146
    I would be calling your bank and doing a charge back, talk to the Mint later.
    USAF vet 1951-59
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  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
    Egad!!!! Headlines!!!! Humans aren't perfect!!!!
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,514 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>image



    So, what'd ya buy? >>



    The better question would be what'd someone else buy? image >>


    The BEST question is : What'd ya buy someone else ?
  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Someone just gave them my name and asked that 2 GAE sets be sent to their address, and they did it. No credit card info, no nothing, plus I have been on hold for 20 min!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!----------------BigE >>



    I thought you wouldn't mind. image
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,514 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Does PCGS give out SMARTA$image awards ? I want 2.
  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>UNBELIEVABLE! US mint allowed my card to be charged for someone elses coins! >>



    thanks...image
  • BigEBigE Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭
    They just cancelled the "other persons" order and had the nerve to tell me to "not worry about it" because the card would not have matched the address anyway so the order would have been gone thru. I got all the way up to the supervisor and I could hear her on the phone in the background argueing with someone who was threatening to take them to court because his platinum order got cancelledimage--------------BigE
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  • BigEBigE Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭
    I am pretty sure this group of order takers for the mint were low-bidders on the contract------------------------BigE
    I'm glad I am a Tree
  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭


    << <i>They just cancelled the "other persons" order and had the nerve to tell me to "not worry about it" because the card would not have matched the address anyway so the order would have been gone thru. I got all the way up to the supervisor and I could hear her on the phone in the background argueing with someone who was threatening to take them to court because his platinum order got cancelledimage--------------BigE >>



    E,
    I think they're right that the order wouldn't have gone through. Credit card companies are really toeing the line with fraud prevention rules which explains how the other guy's order got cancelled. My biggest worry is making sure all the i's are dotted and t's are crossed so my order won't get cancelled.

    your biggest concern now should be to make sure that your card still has room for your order so it doesn't get cancelled. You may need to call your credit card and ask them to manually restore the authorization that was given for the erroneous order.

    Hope you didn't take my previous post personally. I just don't ever expect humans to be perfect, I don't expect telephone or credit card clerks to be our economy's best and brightest (or they would have a different job) and I don't worry about errors that are easily corrected.

    Happy holidays,
    Jerry
  • BigEBigE Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭
    Jerry, no offense taken. I have taken strategic countermeasures to maintain the secrecy of my organization in relation to the US Mint ordering guidlinesimage, just wanted to give a heads up to all my friends hereimage----------------BigE
    I'm glad I am a Tree
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,727 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Egad!!!! Headlines!!!! Humans aren't perfect!!!! >>



    Some are even grossly incompetent.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,632 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Call your credit card company immediately and have them cancel that number, and issue you a new card.
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • BigEBigE Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭
    I am worried if I do that I will lose my mint order. Probably will do that though after shipment----------BigE
    I'm glad I am a Tree
  • 410a410a Posts: 1,325
    Now, that is crazy scary ahhhhhhhhhhhhhimage
  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I am worried if I do that I will lose my mint order. Probably will do that though after shipment----------BigE >>



    Exactly. Don't cancel that card. However, if you have another card with room on it you can call them and have them change the order to that card.
  • fishcookerfishcooker Posts: 3,446 ✭✭

    Maybe, maybe not. You dials the mint, you takes the chances.

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