This is how a lot of companies still take payment @Moonbeam. FYI our corporate policy at my work is that we do not store credit card numbers in our system anywhere, ever. We understand that it is not IF we get compromised, but WHEN. They can’t steal it if you don’t have it. We collect the bare minimum of information needed.
The best thing a person can do is check their credit card balance at least every couple of days. Nip stuff in the bud when it happens.
The safest way for you all to make purchases is to pm me your credit card info and I will purchase stuff for you. This way there is a buffer between you and these shady characters.
I wouldnt deal with those companies. The technology is readily available to not have to have.a human entering your credit card information by hand.
It would be different if it was someone you know, like your trusted insurance broker for example, but having some random person you dont know do this is pretty poor security.
I was looking for a dentist who would take Medi-cal to do a root canal. I was talking to the last dentist I called before I gave up who was supposedly an endodontist and I told him I needed a root canal done. He asked me, “What’s a root canal?” I got off the phone as quick as possible and found a private dentist who will do it for $265.
Except that it’s not. Our provincial vehicle registry is still on VAX systems running FORTRAN. They have lots of code wrappers around it to try and keep it lurching forward. Plenty of this going around. I’ve seen crashed ATMs running Windows XP Pro and Windows 2000 in the past year alone.
@Jonnybegood , I often pick up my pizza. But I was exhausted last night.
I’ve used the online ordering for delivery multiple times.
Every time I did, they charged significantly more for the food, plus a service fee, plus the delivery fee, plus the tip. One large pizza ends up being well over $30. And that’s for just the pizza! No salad, or breadsticks, or anything.
Plus, the pizza is always cold when I order it that way.
I would order via website so you don’t have to give CC Info to a human. Also be careful of ordering delivery, most pizza places have retired their drivers and now use Uber Drivers… so some citizen is driving your food around in their Toyota, expecting a 30% tip or they get mad.
When I found out deliveries were using third party companies at pizza hut I stopped ordering anything from them unless it was carry out and I could get a ride up there to pick it up. Sorry but if you can’t pay drivers I can’t be bothered to order delivery from you.
