From: derek * 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: burtons store card
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 19:53:59 +0100


On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 19:43:59 +0100, "GPG" 
wrote:

>You may be sceptical.  I, however, would like to know what happened.

I would think they took a swipe of his debit card and got an
authorisation for the value of the purchase, when the authorisation
came through they completed the application for their in house card
from the details he gave them. They then reversed the authorisation
and processed the transaction on the new in house card account.

>It is
>becoming so evident that almost everyone employed in the financial services
>industry may be assumed to be a crook,

Indeed I had to entertain some visitors from Holland last month and
found myself telling them that nowadays whenever the Government says
something you can generally take it they are lying.

> unless proven otherwise, that I
>believe nothing they say.  Where has British honour gone?  Into the water
>closet, I fear.

DG