It’s not terrible – just going to be time-consuming. So no “Friday Fun”.
On January 2nd I got a notification from one of my credit cards that there was activity on my account that they didn’t recognize & looked suspicious.
On review, I didn’t recognize it either – so I called. They decided that “out of an abundance of caution” they would terminate that card & send me a new one.
The next day when I logged in, it was clear that the unrecognized action was an online donation on 12/31 to an organization I had previously always written a check.
But the die was cast!
I got my new card the other day and activated it today. And I decided that since it’s been a while, I would go ahead and change my User & Password.
Unfortunately this created a HUGE snafu requiring three f/u (the medical “follow-up” … NOT the other f/u) phone calls and over 2 hours to straighten out. (*sigh*)
But now I have to contact 15 “Merchants” who I setup as automatic payments and notify them of my new card number, expiration date & CVV/CVC number.
My weekend beginning tomorrow is shot.
Like I said – not terrible, just time-consuming.
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Not terrible, but an unfortunate nuisance nevertheless. Those things never come alone, do they? Getting a new card is one thing but a snafu was not something you counted on, I’m sure. Good luck with informing all the merchants of the change; we can manage without the Friday Fun for once. Note the underlining.
Sorry about that, Nameless.
We had that happen last year, at a gas station here, someone got our #.
I can relate with you on your experience, as it is time consuming, and a pain.
Thank you for letting all know. Take care.
With the difference that, when it happened to me, the transaction (and more) actually were unauthorized, I’ve been there and done that. Therefore, I have empathy for your inconvenience.
Oh, dear. Been there, done that (except that I didn’t have to change the user, just the password – and the rep kindly informed me in case I ever wanted to change the password in my own I should input the letters in the user name in all lower case, because that particular software doesn’t recognize caps, though it recognizes numbers and symbols just fine,, and on the password itself it recognizes and requires at least one cap. Oh, and the other minor detail that in may case it was a fraud attempt.) In any case, it’s no fun. I don’t have fifteen to change, I only had four, but one of them, CenturyLink, takes over four weeks to implement the new card, so, no matter what time in the cycle it’s done, there will be a month with no collection and a month with a double collection. I hope you don’t run in to any of that.
I’ll just drop this vid here as a distraction. It has CC. (The CC for the squirrel demanding is pretty cute.)
I also empathize having gone through it so many times, including one card that changed my account information on their own initiative five times in two years (one due to Target breach, etc.)…and now uses algorhythms that it denies my use when traveling because it isn’t my typical to use so often, et al…always when out of cell service or about to run out of gas, etc…my travel notices this year included rants about not leaving me stranded again…one more element of loss of service as the corporate entities have more power and Warren’s efforts for consumers are not being enforced in this administration (old policies forbid making it cumbersome to exercise our rights)
Thankfully, I have not had this problem. Loved the squirrel!