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Posts: 6438 (06/22/09 10:40 AM) Indecisive Cheese |
FWIW, with the credit card, I actually called their customer service line to let them know they have an old address (it was actually forwarded from where she
lived before my current apartment, so they're at least 2 addresses behind).
For the gift certificate, I'm just not doing anything. I'm recycling it. |
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Posts: 11759 (06/22/09 11:12 AM) Fishy Cheese |
there's no way of activating [the credit card], unless your phone number is the same as the phone number of record of the person whose name is on the credit card.Except for some online and ongoing purchases, which will go through despite lack of activation. You also need to enter the last four digits of your SSN (i just got a new card last week and had to do this) so it's very unlikely that somebody else would be able to activate a new credit card that didn't belong to them.Not all credit card companies require the SSN numbers; none of mine ever have. |
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Posts: 4335 (06/23/09 10:21 PM) Booker T. and the M Cheese |
Except for some online and ongoing purchases, which will go through despite lack of activation. Oh my gosh, I never knew that! Well, it would still be crazy for someone to steal a brand new, unactivated credit card and use it for an online purchase, because the cardholder will eventually get the bill, and he/she will tell the credit card company that he/she never received the card and never activated it, and the company will agree that the card was never activated, and then the company will be able to find out from the merchant where the stuff that was ordered was shipped to. I've never been asked for the last four digits of my SSN when activating a credit card. |
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Posts: 34117 (07/03/09 11:51 PM) Reporter Cheese |
I got two parking tickets in two consecutive days the week before last (fuck you very much, Montgomery County parking enforcement) but I just went online to
pay and realized that one of the tickets has the wrong license tag number on it. So theoretically it would never be linked to me. Though I guess the person who
has that license tag number is in trouble. Should I care? I don't know, I feel like I don't. I don't even know if it really belongs to someone.
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Posts: 6600 (07/04/09 2:47 AM) Choose Your Own Cheese |
Any chance you can play stupid, and call to determine if it really belongs to you?
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Posts: 11883 (07/04/09 7:16 AM) Fishy Cheese |
I'd blow it off, unless they also note the VIN. If they have the wrong tag, they can't link it to you and the incorrect number may not belong to
anyone's plate.
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Posts: 3969 (07/04/09 7:41 AM) Australische Kase |
Does your rego stickers also have VINs on them? I thought most cars still only had the VINs on the compliance plate?
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Posts: 11886 (07/04/09 7:46 AM) Fishy Cheese |
No VINs on the plates or stickers, just one bolted to the dash. I haven't had a parking ticket since 1994 (don't drive much) so I don't remember if
they put anything other than the plate number and the time & location of the violation on the ticket.
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Posts: 34119 (07/04/09 8:00 AM) Reporter Cheese |
In this case, they don't put the VIN on the ticket, just the license tag. My registration sticker does indeed have the VIN on it, but I guess the ticket
person doesn't linger long enough to write all that down.
Any chance you can play stupid, and call to determine if it really belongs to you? I'm already stupid  because I don't know who you're saying to call, and what "it" is.
There's two ways I can look my ticket up; by license plate and by the unique ID number that is on each individual ticket. Because I knew I had two tickets, I looked it up by my license plate, thinking that both would show up and I could pay them at the same time, rather than go through the process twice. But I only saw one infraction listed. That's when I looked more closely at the paper ticket itself and realized that one ticket is listed under the license tag CG63... (correct) and the other ticket says CG93...., which is incorrect. I could still pay the other ticket if I just look it up by the ticket's own ID number. But you know, Montgomery County has gotten hundreds of dollars of ticket fees from me over the years, and they'll live without this extra $35. And I'm particularly pissed about this one because I literally saw the ticket guy walking away from my car as I was walking up to it -- I got that ticket at 8:42 p.m. and I was inside my car at 8:44 p.m. So the heck with them. |
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Posts: 11888 (07/04/09 8:19 AM) Fishy Cheese |
And so begins your life of crime...
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Posts: 34121 (07/04/09 8:25 AM) Reporter Cheese |
This is how Dillinger got started. Unpaid parking tickets.
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Posts: 3970 (07/04/09 8:50 AM) Australische Kase |
I could still pay the other ticket if I just look it up by the ticket's own ID number. But you know, Montgomery County has gotten hundreds of dollars of ticket fees from me over the years, and they'll live without this extra $35 HOLD UP. You guys only have $35 parking tickets? Ours are in excess of $100! Stupid fucking socialist country. |
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Miss Moppet |
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Posts: 34122 (07/04/09 9:09 AM) Reporter Cheese |
Well, think of the currency conversion. And it depends on the offense. Parking too long at a meter is $35 USD, which is $61 AUD. Parking more than two hours in
a two-hour only zone is $50 USD, which is 87 AUD.
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Posts: 3971 (07/04/09 9:21 AM) Australische Kase |
Its $120 regardless of time. We get massivly overcharged for everything here. I need to start moaning about captialisim more.
Personally I would pay it. If you did overpark, you should pay it. |
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Posts: 34123 (07/04/09 9:50 AM) Reporter Cheese |
I definitely did overpark. But, I'm not going to pay it. They'll just have to catch up with me on another occasion.
I am paying the one that they do have correctly linked to my license plate. If they want their money, they're going to have to be a little bit more careful about how they write their tickets.
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Posts: 13656 (07/04/09 10:46 AM) Bishop Cheese |
Parking ticket fines aren't uniform, it depends on the municipality. I got a parking ticket in April that was $25.
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Posts: 34124 (07/04/09 11:26 AM) Reporter Cheese |
My dad got a ticket for parking on the wrong side of the street during street cleaning day in DC and I *think* that was $35. But yeah, it totally depends on
the municipality and the infraction. Montgomery County in Maryland, Arlington County in Virginia and the District of Columbia are known for being very strict
with parking enforcement.
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Posts: 520 (07/04/09 1:50 PM) Swiss Cheese |
In NYC if there is an error on the ticket, it will be dismissed no matter what the offense. I got a $165 ticket for blocking a handicap ramp (if I was, and I
probably was, it was by inches but I'm not shocked I got the ticket). I'd recently read an article about NYC reducing the cost of many offenses so I
decided to fight it to see if I could get a reduced fine. I went to the Dept. of Finance a few days later and the ticket wasn't in their system yet and my
copy wasn't readable due to rain, so the judge-like guy gave me a 30 day postponement. I went back after about two weeks and went in front of the
judge-like lady. She asked for my defense and I said I didn't think I was blocking the ramp. She then asked if it was a 4 corner intersection and I said
no, just two. The street I was parked on doesn't cross over the other street (in case that's not clear, it's a T.) I was parked on the corner on
the left side of the vertical part of the T. She started to look up the intersection on the computer and I casually noted, because I hadn't thought
anything of it when I saw the clear printout of the ticket, that the location part on the ticket read "across from 186 Egmont Place" but that I
thought the actual address is 186 Hamilton Avenue. She stopped what she was doing and said, well, let's start with that then. She looked it up and 186
Egmont Place doesn't exist, so how could I be parked across from it, so the ticket was dismissed. Yay! But what was funny was that I wouldn't have
known the address was wrong the first time I went in- the only reason I was aware that the particular house in question was 186 anything is that some mail was
misdelivered to our house and the day before I went to court again I was looking at street numbers to find the right one. Otherwise, I'd have never known!
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Posts: 4964 (07/04/09 3:57 PM) al-Jubna al-Raaqisa Cheese |
HOLD UP. You guys only have $35 parking tickets? Ours are in excess of $100! Stupid fucking socialist country. I don't think socialism vs. capitalism has much to do with it. Parking tickets at UT, the university in town, float between $50 and $100 (steg might remember the numbers better... it's been a long time since I've had to worry about it). We also have the problem of predatory tow truck companies, who drive around private parking lots looking for cars parked without tags (or sometimes just flat tow people out of legal spaces). This could be people taking up a valuable spot or it could be an innocent grad student visiting her boyfriend (what, no, I'm not still bitter!). Huge pain in the ass. I do not believe tow trucks should be able to tow a car unless they have received a valid complaint. I got out of mine because the signs weren't adequate, but all I got was reimbursement of the initial fee and some money for the photographs I took to document the lack of signs. Nothing that would discourage the two company from doing it again. |
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Posts: 5342 (07/04/09 4:39 PM) Züger alpkäse |
Thankfully, I have never received a UT parking ticket.
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