For those of you celebrating a 3 day weekend, the fun should already be underway, that is if you plan on having fun. For some of you I suspect this might just be 3 days of rest and relaxation. For me? Well, as with most holidays, I work.
Historically, the Memorial Day weekend has always been one of the strongest for the orange retailer that I work for, but this year that's up in the air. For my store, sales can pop over the $1 million mark over the long weekend, mostly from purchases made in our garden department. Grills and curb appeal, that's what people buy, mostly grills. Cookout season has arrived.
I cut down my nectarine tree yesterday. There were more dead branches on it than live ones.
My only bit of really big news is that someone's been attempting to put charges on my debit card. The first was for $132.95 from Agoda (something or other). My bank shot it down. They didn't get into my bank account, but they had my card number, which meant closing that number and getting another. Of course that didn't mean the perpetrators were going to stop trying. Last night someone tried to buy something from Dealsdirect, but the old number is now inactive. I guess this means that at least 2 different individuals had that number. Naturally, I started thinking about where I used that card. The only subscription I have linked to it is Planet Fitness, so it's possible someone may have wormed their way into that database. Two weeks ago I used it twice down in York, for lunch and then again at Dairy Queen for desert, so it's not like I use it frequently. This is a curious thing, isn't it?
I like the idea of charges and trials closing in on that Fat Bastard.
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DeleteJust a heads up if you don't already know. When you use a debit or credit care in a restaurant and give them your card to go away and process it there is an at least 50/50 chance that the card number and even the data on the mag strip on the back may be "captured" and used illegally. A lot of restaurants here where I live have portable processors, like the ones that attach to phones, and process your card right at the table in front of you. Just some information I thought I would share.
ReplyDeleteBoth times in York I was stand by the pin pad, so I'm thinking more than like one those machines was hackes.
DeleteWhen my ex was just here he went to Italy with my son (and his niece and her husband, who were here for a wedding) and someone tried to charge $2,500 to his card! Thankfully he was alerted to it and had it blocked!
ReplyDeleteAn earlier $16 charge went through, so I've notified it too was bad.
DeleteThe same thing with my debit card happened last year. Which is one reason why I constantly look over my bank account. My bank is extremely good about alerting me on purchases that are not where I usually buy from or if it's an odd location. Last year I had three different debit cards because of weird purchases. And some of them are usually odd things like memberships to a health club or a small. Have some more big fees, like 1099 799 but those add up if you don't catch them. Last year's big one was a 599 purchase from Amazon my bank called me immediately. See even they know I can't stand Amazon. Needles to say that was where the third card came into play.
ReplyDeleteMy bank notifies me. It did happen to a Visa card of mine a long time ago, and that was fixed fast.
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