Archive for October, 2007

Gas Stations Reserving Credit Funds Experiment - Lukoil

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

I went to a Lukoil gas station this afternoon as my next target on the gas station experiment.  Since Wawa reserved $75 for my last fill up, I figured that I would need to only use a few dollars at a time if I wanted to get more than two gas stations in my experiment.
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Educating Capital One Customer Service Reps

Friday, October 19th, 2007

We recently made the decision to stop using our Capital One credit card and we’re both using my old Visa rewards credit card.
Capital One noticed this lack of activity on the card and sent us a letter asking us to call for a free upgrade to our credit card:  No Hassle Rewards, Improve Other Card [...]

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Wawa Gas Station Returns Funds

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Per the experiment I referenced in my last post where Wawa reserved $75 on an AMEX gift card for a tank of gas when I only spent $31, Wawa has today returned the extra funds to my gift card and now I have the correct amount of $69 available. 
The purchase was made on Saturday and [...]

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Gas Stations Reserving Credit Funds Experiment

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

I’ve mentioned this before and have read tons on this.  When you use a card to pay at the gas pump, the gas station will reserve an unusually high amount of money and hold onto it for far too long before relinquishing that hold on your money.  This is a big problem for people that [...]

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