05-06-2008, 09:17 AM
Last night I placed the order for my friend's MacBook Pro, Time capsule, memory, Office, and CS3 (Newegg, BTW). Prior to ordering, I phoned my CC company and authorized the two different addresses I was shipping to - her house for the software and my work for the computer so it doesn't get left at the front door at home. I also told the representative I was ordering about $4000.00 worth of merchandise.
I placed the MacBook Pro order first, by telephone, then the Time Capsule, also by telephone, then Office and CS3 on the web and finally called OWC for the memory because their website was REALLY slow. I used the same card for all, and OWC rep told me the charge wouldn't go through w/o a phone call to authorize. I did an end run with that using a different card, but then called the CC company and learned that only one of the three purchases was approved - one was kicked back for telephone authorization and the first wasn't on record.
So this morning I have to call all these folks back and hope to get it straightened out.
The joke is that I've had unauthorized charges show up on my CC bill for up to $4000.00 without ever being flagged and when I went through every hoop I could think of to make sure this went smoothly, it blew up. Maybe I should have just bought a CC number off the internet and used that!
I placed the MacBook Pro order first, by telephone, then the Time Capsule, also by telephone, then Office and CS3 on the web and finally called OWC for the memory because their website was REALLY slow. I used the same card for all, and OWC rep told me the charge wouldn't go through w/o a phone call to authorize. I did an end run with that using a different card, but then called the CC company and learned that only one of the three purchases was approved - one was kicked back for telephone authorization and the first wasn't on record.
So this morning I have to call all these folks back and hope to get it straightened out.
The joke is that I've had unauthorized charges show up on my CC bill for up to $4000.00 without ever being flagged and when I went through every hoop I could think of to make sure this went smoothly, it blew up. Maybe I should have just bought a CC number off the internet and used that!