Thursday, June 16, 2005

God help the tourists...


For those of you planning a trip to the US - a word of warning. Paying for gas by credit card at (some) pumps is only possible if you enter your (American) zip code. This helps protect against credit card fraud. And negates your use of pay-at-the-pump if you're from another country. Oh, and your little swipe-the-rfid-tag-on-the-pump-to-pay likely won't work either. Posted by Hello

4 comments:

orangejack said...

Interesting. I've never seen a pump that asks for a zip code. Must be a California thing.

Karl Plesz said...

California and Washington State. I don't know if it exists anywhere else.

Anonymous said...

Hmmm, I'm here in SoCal and I've never had to do the zip code thing. Perhaps it hasn't caught on out here in the sticks. :)

Karl Plesz said...

Well, maybe it's just the pump being paranoid about a Canuck credit card. Sort of the pump's way of saying, "Oh....you're from Canada, eh? Why don't you enter your zip code, eh? You can't Canada Boy....because you don't have ZIP codes up 'ere in Canaduh!"

Sorry, just a little bout of sarcasm there. It'll pass.