Mr Altruistic

Banks

Question: How is it that your credit card can be charged with over twice its limit by anyone else except yourself?

I’ve been trying unsuccessfully all week to work out how this is possible, after the airline did a double-charge of the same amount on my airfare. My bank says that its the “Merchants bank” that has approved the transaction, not them. How is it then that if I attempt to charge $20 over on my credit card i get the embarrassing “Disapproved” at the shop im purchasing in. Give someone else your number though and it seems that your limit is irrelevant, they can charge whatever they want. Now the bank is sending me mail saying I can dispute this, IF I sign the multitude of forms they have sent me. Fuck that! it’s their error not mine. If they approve a transaction that goes over my limit then they can pay for it. I won’t be. The operator on the other end of the phone had to “intentionally terminate” the call after I had said my peace.

Browsers

I’m still playing with the stylesheet for vilesilencer as it’s not rendering correctly in IE, Camino or Safari Mac Browsers. Admittedly I’ve been lazy with the stylesheets compatibility. Websites are moving away from defining font classes in the HTML coding and moreso they rely on the CSS. I will update the stylesheet to a compatible standard with version 1.2 of the argent site.