Busted... Caught a liar today and stopped a chargeback - GoFuckYourself.com

psyko514 · 10-11-2002, 10:18 PM

For those who don't know, I work as a customer service rep for TD Visa here in Kanada. Now before you all start to flame me for my affiliation with Visa, I work helping customers and I have nothing to do whatsoever with merchants or regulations concerning them.
However, I do have something to do with the chargeback process. When a cardholder calls to dispute a charge, I'm the one who outlines the chargeback procedures to him.
Being an adult webmaster, I know all about third party processors, and I know that when a guy has a charge from ccbill, globill, ibill, etc. he can go to the customer service site, put in certain pieces of information and see all the information regarding his charge.
so when cardholders call to dispute these charges, i first advise them to go to the customer service site and see for themselves. i've had people check it while they were on the phone with me and they're response is usually along the lines of "oooooh yeah... i remember that" or "oooh... that must be my husband/roommate/kid/etc". So I avoid chargebacks that way. Maybe I've even saved some of you a couple of bucks. And I'm doing my best to educate all my co-workers on this info as well.

Anyways, long story short (or maybe a little longer):
The guy sitting next to me took a call today from a guy trying to dispute a charge from ccBill on his statement. The guy was insisted that he never signed up for anything on the net. I over heard the call and got my co-worker to put him on hold.
We looked at his customer profile and luckily we had his email address because he uses our web banking service. So armed with his email address and cardnumber, we visited ccbill to check his account info. Sure enough, his name came up and he has a membership to PornKing which he started Oct. 10.
Let me tell you, he ended the call as quickly as possible when my co-worker fed him the info and offered to remind him of his username and password...

pink_in_the_middle · 10-11-2002, 10:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by psyko514
For those who don't know, I work as a customer service rep for TD Visa here in Kanada. Now before you all start to flame me for my affiliation with Visa, I work helping customers and I have nothing to do whatsoever with merchants or regulations concerning them.
However, I do have something to do with the chargeback process. When a cardholder calls to dispute a charge, I'm the one who outlines the chargeback procedures to him.
Being an adult webmaster, I know all about third party processors, and I know that when a guy has a charge from ccbill, globill, ibill, etc. he can go to the customer service site, put in certain pieces of information and see all the information regarding his charge.
so when cardholders call to dispute these charges, i first advise them to go to the customer service site and see for themselves. i've had people check it while they were on the phone with me and they're response is usually along the lines of "oooooh yeah... i remember that" or "oooh... that must be my husband/roommate/kid/etc". So I avoid chargebacks that way. Maybe I've even saved some of you a couple of bucks. And I'm doing my best to educate all my co-workers on this info as well.

Anyways, long story short (or maybe a little longer):
The guy sitting next to me took a call today from a guy trying to dispute a charge from ccBill on his statement. The guy was insisted that he never signed up for anything on the net. I over heard the call and got my co-worker to put him on hold.
We looked at his customer profile and luckily we had his email address because he uses our web banking service. So armed with his email address and cardnumber, we visited ccbill to check his account info. Sure enough, his name came up and he has a membership to PornKing which he started Oct. 10.
Let me tell you, he ended the call as quickly as possible when my co-worker fed him the info and offered to remind him of his username and password...

hey i'd like to talk to you can you hit me up on icq? my number is 120482156 my name is steph...thanks

Brown Bear · 10-11-2002, 10:22 PM

good stuff

sexyclicks · 10-11-2002, 10:22 PM

Kanada???

Sly_RJ · 10-11-2002, 10:23 PM

You are our savior.

pine · 10-11-2002, 10:24 PM

OMG. That is hilarious. Good one. 2nd best thing I've read all day.

Paul Markham · 10-11-2002, 10:25 PM

The thing is a one time charge back on an adult site is fine, or the guy who occaisionally charges back 10-20 minutes after he joined.

But how many of these guys just constantly charge back?

And why is it not possible to give each card another PIN number to verify the person using it is the person that owns it?

B40 · 10-11-2002, 10:26 PM

Nice

Pipecrew · 10-11-2002, 10:27 PM

I love you visa chargeback people

"we will investigate it and send you out a form 10 weeks after you dont care anymore"

"mail it back to us and we will pretend to give a shit and let you know 2 months later"

Brown Bear · 10-11-2002, 10:30 PM

I think all chargeback request phone calls should be directed to you

psyko514 · 10-11-2002, 10:34 PM

Charly: We're working on a program called Verified by Visa were cardholders will have a pin number to do online transactions. The program is currently being tested on a few sites.

Pipecrew: I know it may seem like that to you, but when we do a chargeback, we have to order documents from the merchant before we can send you an affadavit... if the merchant takes long in complying with our requests, there's nothing we can really do aside from enforce time limits.

Brown Bear: I'd take calls like that all day if I could. Unfortunately, I can only deal with TD Visa calls. My girlfriend works for CIBC Visa and she's been doing the same thing.

Brown Bear · 10-11-2002, 10:37 PM

how many calls a day do you usually get from people about porn sites?

SleazyDream · 10-11-2002, 10:40 PM

good job

psyko514 · 10-11-2002, 10:40 PM

on average, i only get 1-2 calls a day. but when i hear a co-worker on a call like that, i'll tell em what to do. unfortunately, we don't always have all the necessary information to access the account information...
but i'm doing my best to educate all my co-workers on what i do, so as opposed to only me doing this, there'll be 100 people in my call center alone doing this.

Cal · 10-11-2002, 10:41 PM

charly:

I once saw a faxed credit statement from a customer that had TWENTY (that's right) charges disputed, and he had been refunded by his bank for every one. They were all adult sites, the bank had let him charge back 20 internet charges and keep all his normal ones, i.e. Home Depot. We spoke to the bank and the lady actually said, and I quote...

"Oh, I know him. He's a good boy. He wouldn't be joining any adult websites."

It varies by card issuer, but charging back is about the easiest thing you can do these days. The biggest hypocrisy is that by charging back you are admitting that someone fradulently used your card. If it is a debit card the procedure is to destroy your card, dispute charges, and re-issue a completely new card. This is why the overall chargebacks on debit are almost negligible.

But when you say to your VISA/bank rep SOMEONE USED MY CARD WITHOUT MY PERMISSION rather than them saying oh my, someone malicious has your card number, we will cancel your card immediately, they say ok we will refund you for the charge.

If someone had charged my card 20 times for things I supposedly did not purchase, wouldn't that ring an alarm bell? Wouldn't the fact that I don't want a new card, I just want the charges remove ALSO ring alarm bells?

The VISA/MC liability policy is utter horse shit. They need to follow the same policies debit-issuing banks do. If you have a fradulent charge on your card, you get a new card. That would cut chargebacks to practically 0, since noone wants to go through that hassle.

VISA/MC are essentially enabling fradulent activity among their cardholders.

C.

pine · 10-11-2002, 10:51 PM

Cal, you have hit the proverbial nail on the head.

I've NEVER been able to understand why Visa/MC are so willing to let their customers "charge back" without any questions at all. Essentially they are saying "No valid purhcases have ever been made over the Internet".

Pskyo, enlighten us. Why are the major CC banks so quick to let their consumers perpetrate fraud?

My favorite excuse "Oh, I didn't know I was signing up". As if the join page, the username selection, AND TYPING IN YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER wasn't a big clue.

psyko514 · 10-11-2002, 10:51 PM

Chargeback policies are set by Visa International, not by issuers, so they're the same worldwide.
For an unrecognized internet transaction, the cardholder must first send us a letter stating he did not authorize these charges. Now it wouldn't be a good business practice to outright call every cardholder a liar, would it? So we have to take his word for it.
The company that gets chargedback has every right to representment, which is basically saying "Yes, he did authorize these charges", but there are fees for that and it's usually less expensive and easier for the merchant to say "charge us back" then it is to go into representment...

and when we see more than three unauthorized charges within the span of a few months, we consider it as fraudulent use of the card and we cancel the card and send a new one.

not many people call up and say "i never authorized these charges, please credit me back". they usually say "i never authorized these, please give me a new number"

pr0 · 10-11-2002, 10:53 PM

nicely done

Theo · 10-11-2002, 10:54 PM

good job psyko514

psyko514 · 10-11-2002, 10:56 PM

an often used excuse is "i signed up for one of those free trials and they charged me $XX.XX"
so we turn around and say "the terms and conditions of the site clearly state you must cancel before the trial is over or else you will be rebilled".
"oh (long pause) well i did cancel."
"do you have a proof of that cancellation sir?"
"uhh... no"
"well i'm sorry sir, but there's nothing we can do, you'll have to try and contact the company to see if they'll give you a credit" and we note their account accordingly

Cal · 10-11-2002, 10:57 PM

Oh, well it must be WAY different in Canada, keep in mind I'm talking from the POV of a merchant here.

I have business associates who have had accounts for 3-5 years, even in the phone sex business. They'd call chargebacks and say 'we will pursue action with legal authorities' etc and get told to FUCK OFF and hung up on. The cardholders freely admitted on the phone that they had placed the calls. No lie, happened many times.

Another business partner of mine accidentally charged back his plane tickets because he didn't recognize the charge. Took him 5 minutes over the phone, and he didn't realize his mistake until later.

If only your regs were applied in the US, merchants wouldn't be dropping like flies. The merchant with a US account has NO recourse during a chargeback. The bank simply sends you a orange/yellow envelope saying congratulations we have deducted charge amt. + $25 from your bank account. I am sure many merchants can attest to this. You are not warned, you simply get 'served' with the chargeback letters, and the money is gone before you can do a thing about it.

If everything worked as your VISA Int'l regs suppose, chargebacks would be a non-issue in the online industry.

C.

pine · 10-11-2002, 11:00 PM

I'm just glad there's at least one Visa official who sees our side of the argument. Any chance you're gonna be the CEO soon?

psyko514 · 10-11-2002, 11:05 PM

like i said, chargeback policies are they same worldwide as they are laid out by visa international.
the only thing that differs is some banks might credit the customer right away and some may not.
some banks will give the customer the credit right away and debit the merchant right away. then, if the merchant brings the charge to representment and proves the charge is valid, we'll re-debit the customer and credit back the merchant.
other banks (mine for example, and CIBC as well) will issue a chargeback notice to the merchant, give them the chance for representment and if the merchant doesn't prove the charge is valid within the given time frame, the merchant is debited and the cardholder is credited.
either way, a merchant has every right to representment, and if you don't think so, contact your merchant services department for your acquirer bank.

psyko514 · 10-11-2002, 11:06 PM

pine... actually, the CEO of our bank just announced his retirement 2 days ago...
but unfortunately, i'm still a long way from being ceo... maybe an assistant manager within the next year or so...

Cal · 10-11-2002, 11:10 PM

Not sure about CIBC's policies, but in the US every time we do attempt to dispute we get a 'require signed receipt of product' which obviously is impossible with online charges. That is the way that VISA (or whatever banks we always seem to be dealing with) have pigeonholed merchants. We have no signed receipts because we have no tangible products. Server logs, login requests, even chat logs (or phonecalls) WITH the customers on their ISPs are disregarded by EVERY bank we have had to deal with. That includes international, got nailed by 20+ charges from a person in the UK all at once, no chance for recourse. Maybe Canada is easier, God bless you, but we have never had a single chargeback reversed by a bank. And you're going back years now, processing all card types.

C.

RMG · 10-11-2002, 11:50 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Cal
charly:

I once saw a faxed credit statement from a customer that had TWENTY (that's right) charges disputed, and he had been refunded by his bank for every one. They were all adult sites, the bank had let him charge back 20 internet charges and keep all his normal ones, i.e. Home Depot. We spoke to the bank and the lady actually said, and I quote...

"Oh, I know him. He's a good boy. He wouldn't be joining any adult websites."

It varies by card issuer, but charging back is about the easiest thing you can do these days. The biggest hypocrisy is that by charging back you are admitting that someone fradulently used your card. If it is a debit card the procedure is to destroy your card, dispute charges, and re-issue a completely new card. This is why the overall chargebacks on debit are almost negligible.

But when you say to your VISA/bank rep SOMEONE USED MY CARD WITHOUT MY PERMISSION rather than them saying oh my, someone malicious has your card number, we will cancel your card immediately, they say ok we will refund you for the charge.

If someone had charged my card 20 times for things I supposedly did not purchase, wouldn't that ring an alarm bell? Wouldn't the fact that I don't want a new card, I just want the charges remove ALSO ring alarm bells?

The VISA/MC liability policy is utter horse shit. They need to follow the same policies debit-issuing banks do. If you have a fradulent charge on your card, you get a new card. That would cut chargebacks to practically 0, since noone wants to go through that hassle.

VISA/MC are essentially enabling fradulent activity among their cardholders.

C.

amen

Brown Bear · 10-12-2002, 12:00 AM

Wow, this thread has some intelligent posts in it.

psyko514 · 10-12-2002, 12:03 AM

is that sarcasm?

HS-Trixxxia · 10-12-2002, 01:16 AM

psyko514, what are the policies now with online/mail-order purchases?
When I worked for CIBC, I remember it was such a hassle to ask for a refund on your credit card that people would think twice before signing the affidavit saying they *never* signed or authorized the transaction - because either way, they knew it would not be done instantly - Client had to sign the affidavit, a copy of the transaction had to be sent to Visa, Visa would then verify the signatures - and any other document that the merchant had to back-up the charge. It was a hassle just to ask for a copy to verify the transaction so people would be hesitant to do it.

I have a copy of one of the forms from MasterCard. They goe as far as letting the client *State* or certify that they have not promised nor authorised anybody to process the *said* transaction. They have not authorised the merchant to process the transaction, whether by telephone, mail or other

I'd like to know what kind of proof Visa/MasterCard are asking for now? If it's online, there are no signatures and if it's not a product that was shipped, they don't have a waybill or an address back-up the transaction. So what are they looking for?

Brown Bear · 10-12-2002, 01:20 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by psyko514
is that sarcasm?

No, I was serious. You guys have posted some interesting info about the chargeback process.

Brown Bear · 10-12-2002, 01:22 AM

What is the process of charging back with Visa debit cards or Mastercard debit cards?

I read that debit card purchases have overtaken credit card purchases. Debit cards are the future.

psyko514 · 10-12-2002, 01:22 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Trixxxia

When I worked for CIBC, I remember it was such a hassle to ask for a refund on your credit card that people would think twice before signing the affidavit saying they *never* signed or authorized the transaction - because either way, they knew it would not be done instantly - Client had to sign the affidavit, a copy of the transaction had to be sent to Visa, Visa would then verify the signatures - and any other document that the merchant had to back-up the charge. It was a hassle just to ask for a copy to verify the transaction so people would be hesitant to do it.

you used to work for cibc? customer service on rene-levesque? or something else?
anyways, they still require all that information for a chargeback.
for an online service, i'm honestly not sure what is considered tangible proof... i'm going to be speaking to the people who run my chargeback dept. next week to find out. i'll keep everyone posted.

psyko514 · 10-12-2002, 01:27 AM

brownbear... i honestly couldn't tell you as no canadian banks offer visa or mastercard debit cards. but i too have heard that they're doing really well. i have a paypal debit card and use it all the time.

psyko514 · 10-12-2002, 01:29 AM

I'm the new owner of GFY?
Sweeeeet...

i did a little research on check cards (i looked up terms and conditions of various issuers)
from what i can see, the process is the same, liability is the same, unless the transaction was done with a pin number.

Brown Bear · 10-12-2002, 01:37 AM

Why don't Canadian banks issue Visa/Mastercard debit cards?

psyko514 · 10-12-2002, 02:00 AM

maybe they haven't caught on yet.
it's too cold up here i guess.

psyko514 · 10-12-2002, 11:17 AM

anyone else have a better answer than mine?

Fletch XXX · 10-12-2002, 11:20 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by psyko514
For those who don't know, I work as a customer service rep for TD Visa here in Kanada.

Yesterday ya didnt know left from right, now you cant even spell your own commonwwealth?

ghehehe

too funny.

psyko514 · 10-12-2002, 11:23 AM

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Fletch XXX
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Registered: Jan 2002
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You can't spell your city name, so you're on the same level as me.

Rep · 10-12-2002, 11:46 AM

maybe it's a pun

psyko514 · 10-12-2002, 12:05 PM

thank you sherlock holmes.

HS-Trixxxia · 10-12-2002, 12:18 PM

psyko514, actually I worked at 4 different branches as an account manager, rene-levesque was my first branch and the one that I was at the longest, then I started to change branches to something closer to home. If your gf has worked there prior to '94, for sure we know eachother, as I was a *fixture* at the branch ;-)

Just for those who may be more informed with the debit cards - If they work anything like regular debit cards, shouldn't it be harder to charge back if you are using a PIN to confirm the transaction since nobody is *supposed* to have access to your PIN?

sumphatpimp · 10-12-2002, 12:19 PM

You guys sure do make some good whiskey up there in Kanada.
Keep up the good work.

Ever try to charge back in a whorehouse after you blew your load?
Friend of mine tried it in Arnhem, Holland.
Cost him three weeks in the hospital and an eye.
Guess them pimps in the backroom don't go for that stuff.

Why does any credit card company allow a charge back on this type of transaction? thats what I don't get?

ALL PUSSY SALES ARE FINAL !!!

I think these c/c companies don't want it known what kind of transaction they are facilitating, they are a part of the porn industry, like it or not.

cherrylula · 10-12-2002, 12:22 PM

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36853,00.html

http://www.forbes.com/global/2002/0916/038.html

http://pokermag.com/managearticle.asp?c=270&a=10

Recent: http://www.imra.org/public/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3251

Visa's gonna lose. Bad.

"Companies with questions on any issues related to the debit-card litigation should contact Moe Cain in the IMRA office: (703) 600-2012 or mcain @ imra.org"

TFCash · 10-12-2002, 12:23 PM

Cal -

You must have a shitty bank that you are setup with, our charge backs run the course just like he said, we get both an email and a letter stating that there has been a claim filed, we then have like 7 days to respond with proof of the charge, or the refund becomes permanent. And we have always had good luck when we send them logs and the sign up results along with a copy of the front page of the site that they signed up to as proof, of course we show all the IP's and it normally points to a local ISP so that has always helped since the ISP has always been in the same town as the asshole trying to BC :D

Tim

psyko514 · 10-12-2002, 12:23 PM

trixxxia... she's only been there for a year...
as for check cards, they work like a credit card, except the funds are taken from your checking account instead of a credit account. so no monthly payments or interest.

markusborger · 10-12-2002, 12:26 PM

good work mate

if every bank card representative were doing what you done....

we did had all those troubles with VISA

Cal · 10-12-2002, 02:08 PM

Tim,

We have used CardService Int'l and Humboldt directly, neither one really gives a shit about any 'proof'. As I said their return documents when we do dispute (yes we do get time to answer, but since our success rate is nearly 0% I exaggerated and said there is NOTHING you can do about it) say 'no signed receipt of product' which is essentially preventing any online merchant from disputing any chargeback.

To answer Brown Bear, the policy on a debit card chargeback is to file dispute papers, and then destroy the card and issue a new one. This is why you get nearly 0% chargebacks on debit accounts; because noone wants to wait upwards of 10 days to get a new card and file all the complaints.

Mark my words, if charging back were any harder than a 5 minute phonecall with no paperwork (this is at MANY banks, as this thread shows other countries and some US banks do have good policies in place, but nowhere near enough), the rates WOULD be under 1 percent.

C.

-- edit: the merchant bank is not the one who actually charges back, just to clarify, they are at the mercy of the card-issuing banks, who are the ones sending back the 'no signed receipt' responses ... Humboldt and Card Service do send you notification and you have about a week, as Tim said, but what good is it if you have a 0% chance of reversal success? ---

ZoiNk · 10-12-2002, 02:50 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Brown Bear
Why don't Canadian banks issue Visa/Mastercard debit cards?

Because 'Interac' caught on here instead. Debit cards are used in Canada to purchase a single candy bar, gas, movie tickets, furnature, fast food, everything. It is the most common transaction used in Canada.

ZoiNk

andrew1009 · 10-12-2002, 03:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by psyko514
trixxxia... she's only been there for a year...
as for check cards, they work like a credit card, except the funds are taken from your checking account instead of a credit account. so no monthly payments or interest.

are visa check cards available in Canada?

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psyko514 See sig. Join Epic Cash. Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Montreal, Quebec. ICQ: 214702014 Posts: 22,366	Busted... Caught a liar today and stopped a chargeback For those who don't know, I work as a customer service rep for TD Visa here in Kanada. Now before you all start to flame me for my affiliation with Visa, I work helping customers and I have nothing to do whatsoever with merchants or regulations concerning them. However, I do have something to do with the chargeback process. When a cardholder calls to dispute a charge, I'm the one who outlines the chargeback procedures to him. Being an adult webmaster, I know all about third party processors, and I know that when a guy has a charge from ccbill, globill, ibill, etc. he can go to the customer service site, put in certain pieces of information and see all the information regarding his charge. so when cardholders call to dispute these charges, i first advise them to go to the customer service site and see for themselves. i've had people check it while they were on the phone with me and they're response is usually along the lines of "oooooh yeah... i remember that" or "oooh... that must be my husband/roommate/kid/etc". So I avoid chargebacks that way. Maybe I've even saved some of you a couple of bucks. And I'm doing my best to educate all my co-workers on this info as well. Anyways, long story short (or maybe a little longer): The guy sitting next to me took a call today from a guy trying to dispute a charge from ccBill on his statement. The guy was insisted that he never signed up for anything on the net. I over heard the call and got my co-worker to put him on hold. We looked at his customer profile and luckily we had his email address because he uses our web banking service. So armed with his email address and cardnumber, we visited ccbill to check his account info. Sure enough, his name came up and he has a membership to PornKing which he started Oct. 10. Let me tell you, he ended the call as quickly as possible when my co-worker fed him the info and offered to remind him of his username and password...

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10-11-2002, 10:41 PM	#15
Cal Registered User Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Orange County, CA Posts: 72	charly: I once saw a faxed credit statement from a customer that had TWENTY (that's right) charges disputed, and he had been refunded by his bank for every one. They were all adult sites, the bank had let him charge back 20 internet charges and keep all his normal ones, i.e. Home Depot. We spoke to the bank and the lady actually said, and I quote... "Oh, I know him. He's a good boy. He wouldn't be joining any adult websites." It varies by card issuer, but charging back is about the easiest thing you can do these days. The biggest hypocrisy is that by charging back you are admitting that someone fradulently used your card. If it is a debit card the procedure is to destroy your card, dispute charges, and re-issue a completely new card. This is why the overall chargebacks on debit are almost negligible. But when you say to your VISA/bank rep SOMEONE USED MY CARD WITHOUT MY PERMISSION rather than them saying oh my, someone malicious has your card number, we will cancel your card immediately, they say ok we will refund you for the charge. If someone had charged my card 20 times for things I supposedly did not purchase, wouldn't that ring an alarm bell? Wouldn't the fact that I don't want a new card, I just want the charges remove ALSO ring alarm bells? The VISA/MC liability policy is utter horse shit. They need to follow the same policies debit-issuing banks do. If you have a fradulent charge on your card, you get a new card. That would cut chargebacks to practically 0, since noone wants to go through that hassle. VISA/MC are essentially enabling fradulent activity among their cardholders. C.

10-11-2002, 10:51 PM	#16
pine Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Falls, eh Posts: 1,373	Cal, you have hit the proverbial nail on the head. I've NEVER been able to understand why Visa/MC are so willing to let their customers "charge back" without any questions at all. Essentially they are saying "No valid purhcases have ever been made over the Internet". Pskyo, enlighten us. Why are the major CC banks so quick to let their consumers perpetrate fraud? My favorite excuse "Oh, I didn't know I was signing up". As if the join page, the username selection, AND TYPING IN YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER wasn't a big clue.

10-11-2002, 10:53 PM	#18
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10-11-2002, 10:54 PM	#19
Theo HAL 9000 Industry Role: Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 34,515	good job psyko514

10-11-2002, 10:56 PM	#20
psyko514 See sig. Join Epic Cash. Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Montreal, Quebec. ICQ: 214702014 Posts: 22,366	an often used excuse is "i signed up for one of those free trials and they charged me $XX.XX" so we turn around and say "the terms and conditions of the site clearly state you must cancel before the trial is over or else you will be rebilled". "oh (long pause) well i did cancel." "do you have a proof of that cancellation sir?" "uhh... no" "well i'm sorry sir, but there's nothing we can do, you'll have to try and contact the company to see if they'll give you a credit" and we note their account accordingly

10-11-2002, 10:57 PM	#21
Cal Registered User Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Orange County, CA Posts: 72	Oh, well it must be WAY different in Canada, keep in mind I'm talking from the POV of a merchant here. I have business associates who have had accounts for 3-5 years, even in the phone sex business. They'd call chargebacks and say 'we will pursue action with legal authorities' etc and get told to FUCK OFF and hung up on. The cardholders freely admitted on the phone that they had placed the calls. No lie, happened many times. Another business partner of mine accidentally charged back his plane tickets because he didn't recognize the charge. Took him 5 minutes over the phone, and he didn't realize his mistake until later. If only your regs were applied in the US, merchants wouldn't be dropping like flies. The merchant with a US account has NO recourse during a chargeback. The bank simply sends you a orange/yellow envelope saying congratulations we have deducted charge amt. + $25 from your bank account. I am sure many merchants can attest to this. You are not warned, you simply get 'served' with the chargeback letters, and the money is gone before you can do a thing about it. If everything worked as your VISA Int'l regs suppose, chargebacks would be a non-issue in the online industry. C.

10-11-2002, 11:00 PM	#22
pine Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Falls, eh Posts: 1,373	I'm just glad there's at least one Visa official who sees our side of the argument. Any chance you're gonna be the CEO soon?

10-11-2002, 11:05 PM	#23
psyko514 See sig. Join Epic Cash. Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Montreal, Quebec. ICQ: 214702014 Posts: 22,366	like i said, chargeback policies are they same worldwide as they are laid out by visa international. the only thing that differs is some banks might credit the customer right away and some may not. some banks will give the customer the credit right away and debit the merchant right away. then, if the merchant brings the charge to representment and proves the charge is valid, we'll re-debit the customer and credit back the merchant. other banks (mine for example, and CIBC as well) will issue a chargeback notice to the merchant, give them the chance for representment and if the merchant doesn't prove the charge is valid within the given time frame, the merchant is debited and the cardholder is credited. either way, a merchant has every right to representment, and if you don't think so, contact your merchant services department for your acquirer bank.

10-11-2002, 11:06 PM	#24
psyko514 See sig. Join Epic Cash. Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Montreal, Quebec. ICQ: 214702014 Posts: 22,366	pine... actually, the CEO of our bank just announced his retirement 2 days ago... but unfortunately, i'm still a long way from being ceo... maybe an assistant manager within the next year or so...

10-11-2002, 11:10 PM	#25
Cal Registered User Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Orange County, CA Posts: 72	Not sure about CIBC's policies, but in the US every time we do attempt to dispute we get a 'require signed receipt of product' which obviously is impossible with online charges. That is the way that VISA (or whatever banks we always seem to be dealing with) have pigeonholed merchants. We have no signed receipts because we have no tangible products. Server logs, login requests, even chat logs (or phonecalls) WITH the customers on their ISPs are disregarded by EVERY bank we have had to deal with. That includes international, got nailed by 20+ charges from a person in the UK all at once, no chance for recourse. Maybe Canada is easier, God bless you, but we have never had a single chargeback reversed by a bank. And you're going back years now, processing all card types. C.

10-12-2002, 12:00 AM	#27
Brown Bear Confirmed User Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 4,982	Wow, this thread has some intelligent posts in it. __________________ Surrender all your independent thinking and Click Here for re-programming.

10-12-2002, 12:03 AM	#28
psyko514 See sig. Join Epic Cash. Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Montreal, Quebec. ICQ: 214702014 Posts: 22,366	is that sarcasm?

10-12-2002, 01:16 AM	#29
HS-Trixxxia Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Montreal Canada Posts: 2,946	psyko514, what are the policies now with online/mail-order purchases? When I worked for CIBC, I remember it was such a hassle to ask for a refund on your credit card that people would think twice before signing the affidavit saying they never signed or authorized the transaction - because either way, they knew it would not be done instantly - Client had to sign the affidavit, a copy of the transaction had to be sent to Visa, Visa would then verify the signatures - and any other document that the merchant had to back-up the charge. It was a hassle just to ask for a copy to verify the transaction so people would be hesitant to do it. I have a copy of one of the forms from MasterCard. They goe as far as letting the client State or certify that they have not promised nor authorised anybody to process the said transaction. They have not authorised the merchant to process the transaction, whether by telephone, mail or other I'd like to know what kind of proof Visa/MasterCard are asking for now? If it's online, there are no signatures and if it's not a product that was shipped, they don't have a waybill or an address back-up the transaction. So what are they looking for?

10-12-2002, 01:22 AM	#31
Brown Bear Confirmed User Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 4,982	What is the process of charging back with Visa debit cards or Mastercard debit cards? I read that debit card purchases have overtaken credit card purchases. Debit cards are the future. __________________ Surrender all your independent thinking and Click Here for re-programming.

10-12-2002, 01:27 AM	#33
psyko514 See sig. Join Epic Cash. Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Montreal, Quebec. ICQ: 214702014 Posts: 22,366	brownbear... i honestly couldn't tell you as no canadian banks offer visa or mastercard debit cards. but i too have heard that they're doing really well. i have a paypal debit card and use it all the time.

10-12-2002, 01:29 AM	#34
psyko514 See sig. Join Epic Cash. Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Montreal, Quebec. ICQ: 214702014 Posts: 22,366	I'm the new owner of GFY? Sweeeeet... i did a little research on check cards (i looked up terms and conditions of various issuers) from what i can see, the process is the same, liability is the same, unless the transaction was done with a pin number.

10-12-2002, 01:37 AM	#35
Brown Bear Confirmed User Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 4,982	Why don't Canadian banks issue Visa/Mastercard debit cards? __________________ Surrender all your independent thinking and Click Here for re-programming.

10-12-2002, 02:00 AM	#36
psyko514 See sig. Join Epic Cash. Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Montreal, Quebec. ICQ: 214702014 Posts: 22,366	maybe they haven't caught on yet. it's too cold up here i guess.

10-12-2002, 11:17 AM	#37
psyko514 See sig. Join Epic Cash. Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Montreal, Quebec. ICQ: 214702014 Posts: 22,366	anyone else have a better answer than mine?

10-12-2002, 11:46 AM	#40
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10-12-2002, 12:05 PM	#41
psyko514 See sig. Join Epic Cash. Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Montreal, Quebec. ICQ: 214702014 Posts: 22,366	thank you sherlock holmes.

10-12-2002, 12:18 PM	#42
HS-Trixxxia Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Montreal Canada Posts: 2,946	psyko514, actually I worked at 4 different branches as an account manager, rene-levesque was my first branch and the one that I was at the longest, then I started to change branches to something closer to home. If your gf has worked there prior to '94, for sure we know eachother, as I was a fixture at the branch ;-) Just for those who may be more informed with the debit cards - If they work anything like regular debit cards, shouldn't it be harder to charge back if you are using a PIN to confirm the transaction since nobody is supposed to have access to your PIN?

10-12-2002, 12:19 PM	#43
sumphatpimp Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 5,235	You guys sure do make some good whiskey up there in Kanada. Keep up the good work. Ever try to charge back in a whorehouse after you blew your load? Friend of mine tried it in Arnhem, Holland. Cost him three weeks in the hospital and an eye. Guess them pimps in the backroom don't go for that stuff. Why does any credit card company allow a charge back on this type of transaction? thats what I don't get? ALL PUSSY SALES ARE FINAL !!! I think these c/c companies don't want it known what kind of transaction they are facilitating, they are a part of the porn industry, like it or not.