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Charade

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What I don't understand is the number of people reporting that their cc's are being used to buy airline tickets. I understand in Europe the airlines are not as strict as they are here, but you still need to show ID, etc. to board a plane. I would think buying and using an airline ticket would leave a tremendous and dangerous papertrail for a criminal.
 

Goldbug

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What I don't understand is the number of people reporting that their cc's are being used to buy airline tickets. I understand in Europe the airlines are not as strict as they are here, but you still need to show ID, etc. to board a plane. I would think buying and using an airline ticket would leave a tremendous and dangerous papertrail for a criminal.
Not if I buy a plane ticket "for" you.
 

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What I don't understand is the number of people reporting that their cc's are being used to buy airline tickets. I understand in Europe the airlines are not as strict as they are here, but you still need to show ID, etc. to board a plane. I would think buying and using an airline ticket would leave a tremendous and dangerous papertrail for a criminal.

i would think buying something online would leave a paper trail. you have to have it shipped somewhere, plus the ip address. so that don't make sense either. i suggest anyone who used a card there last year, better get on it, find out what card it was and cancel it, cause it's gonna happen. these guys must have a list of info and are going through one by one. it's weird i had no clue what card i used and was like fuck. then cap 1 got in touch with me. this happened to me few years ago like i already mentioned, i'm just not sure if it was the same card or if it was a card i used with them, they might of had a problem the whole time and no one put two and two together. i hope these fucks get nailed, it aint cool fucking with someone hard earned credit, or someones identity.
 
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fogger1138

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Trying to figure out if I'm at risk. Thing is, I can't figure out what I used to pay with when I bought the Slaughter 2-pack a year and a half ago, and you can't log in to your account right now to even check there. Grrr...
 

Mandingo Rex

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Trying to figure out if I'm at risk. Thing is, I can't figure out what I used to pay with when I bought the Slaughter 2-pack a year and a half ago, and you can't log in to your account right now to even check there. Grrr...

Same here. I'm not canceling all my cards, I guess I'll just watch my main CC.

Do you remember at all if they required a debit card, or if a regular CC was allowed? I'd imagine it was my Mastercard, but I can't be 100% sure.
 

Cloud Strife

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Trying to figure out if I'm at risk. Thing is, I can't figure out what I used to pay with when I bought the Slaughter 2-pack a year and a half ago, and you can't log in to your account right now to even check there. Grrr...

Yeah... I do know that I didn't pay via PayPal (crap!) as I checked the history on their site. So, I will be cancelling both of my cards, like Rex.
 

Mandingo Rex

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I'm really irritated at having to do a money order. I'm assuming Safeway or Walgreens may be able to do one, but there's a bank just up the hill from my office. Guess I'll need to do that in the next few days.

There's ONE local Wal-Mart, and I'm not venturing into that third world country market to get a fucking $44 money order.

Talk about an archaic payment method. They may as well release their information via telegraph.

Also, how the shit are they going to handle buying the carded ones that were rumored but nothing was ever heard of past "yes, we will have them carded"? Am I crazy? Others remember that, right? I'd get 2 memberships if they all came carded, but I don't want to get a second one if it's just another bagged one.

I'm really doing this for Cover-Girl, Big Boa, and Footloose. It's starting to seem like not that great of a use of my time for 2 figures I've been waiting forever to get, and one that I'm excited about (Boa).
 

Cloud Strife

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I remember them saying that there would be carded FL figs available, but I don't recall hearing when and how they were going to make them available for purchase.

I'm passing on a Membership this round. They're causing me a headache and I don't really care for the subscription figs.
 

MAJOR BLOOD

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I'm really irritated at having to do a money order. I'm assuming Safeway or Walgreens may be able to do one, but there's a bank just up the hill from my office. Guess I'll need to do that in the next few days.

There's ONE local Wal-Mart, and I'm not venturing into that third world country market to get a fucking $44 money order.

Talk about an archaic payment method. They may as well release their information via telegraph.

Also, how the shit are they going to handle buying the carded ones that were rumored but nothing was ever heard of past "yes, we will have them carded"? Am I crazy? Others remember that, right? I'd get 2 memberships if they all came carded, but I don't want to get a second one if it's just another bagged one.

I'm really doing this for Cover-Girl, Big Boa, and Footloose. It's starting to seem like not that great of a use of my time for 2 figures I've been waiting forever to get, and one that I'm excited about (Boa).

You know where else has MO's? The post office......:D
 

Mandingo Rex

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Fuck that! You've got a better chance of me shipping your stuff with the automated machine! :D Hey, I took a baby step, I dug it out of the storage box it was in and it's sitting on the guest bed, waiting on my lazy ass to cut a box down to size. So we're 33% there already!

If you talk me into Money Orders, the only day I can make it by during office hours is Saturday. That may never happen! :D
 

Mandingo Rex

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The disappointing thing is I really like Footloose and Cover-Girl (even if both of them are repainted FrankenJoes from last year's JoeCon sets). Carded, I'm all in. Hell, even bagged, Footloose is one of the top Joes I've been waiting for in 25th/30th build. Cover-Girl? I dunno if I'd get her if she was only bagged.

Regular Dial-Tone (the awkwardly tanned one) was so awful last year that I sold him off. I only got the carded one because MW lucked out and I'm OCD about having a MOSC collection of all ARAH 25th carded figures. I did actually keep the Brazilian repaint for the head and gear, because that one actually looked fantastic and I used it on my previous custom.

It's all about QC, and they aren't consistent. Some figures were amazing. Others were simply awful or so lackluster I simply didn't care about them (Dial-Tone and Mainframe, for example.)
 

Mandingo Rex

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i'm sending em a check, i dont have the time to do a money order, and i dont even know how to do a money order.

I've done it twice in 30 years. 5 years ago when I moved to CA for an absurd deposit on an apartment, and when I was a child. To mail off some bullshit probably to get an action figure, I'd imagine. Or maybe it was comics. Whatever it was, was something nerdy, and for a child.

I can't remember how the fuck I did it, either. It's like getting something notarized by a notary. You'll do it once or twice, and not remember how or why you did it.
 

MAJOR BLOOD

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Getting a money order? All you have to do is hand over the loot and pay the fee for them. It's the same as a check which I would hesitate to give to those ass hats that run the club. Apparently them being cheap has hurt them finally.

You can usually get the MO at a Wal Mart or places like that. I have a Post Office right up the road so it's way easier. Hell, you can even get a cashiers check from your bank I think. Sending them something with your bank info is a gamble.

Seeing how the leaked FSS list was possibly something from the inside, who's to say there wasn't a similar situation with the credit card info?
 

Mandingo Rex

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Wait, there's a fee for a MO? Like what? A dollar? Goddamn, I love that a $42 membership last year is now a $45+ membership and I have to go to another store to get a format to pay for it. A mild price increase, but with all the other hassle, they're really racking up points in the intolerable dickbag department.

I may just use my old checks, and take out everything but $100 in the account, and then promptly close that bitch the second the check clears.
 

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hmmm, mb, good point. maybe i shoudnt send a check. damn, now i have to get a money order. i think money order, i think cash checks here type of stores for ppl that never established themselves.
 

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me either. i only joined to buy cases during the 25th. but joined last year because of the dial tone. and it was the only dial tone i wasa ever gonna get that was close enough to the old one. ok, ok, it wasnt that close, but the head was new and the colors were good, and it had a vintage backpack
 

Mandingo Rex

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I only joined because of the Dial Tone and now FL

Unless next year's figure is Cross-Country or Kwinn, or a damn impressive 25th version of someone big we're still missing like Keel-Haul, I'm not going to waste another year with them.

I personally think the subscription service won't even launch, and if it does, it'll flounder after the first run and they won't do another. They don't seem to have their shit together.

I wanted to support them, but after the clusterfuck management I've seen this past year, I'm not at all impressed. They've got a batting average of slightly more than 50% on their ME style figures, but they keep striking out on their management of shit.

It can't be that hard to run this thing.
 

MAJOR BLOOD

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Wait, there's a fee for a MO? Like what? A dollar? Goddamn, I love that a $42 membership last year is now a $45+ membership and I have to go to another store to get a format to pay for it. A mild price increase, but with all the other hassle, they're really racking up points in the intolerable dickbag department.

I may just use my old checks, and take out everything but $100 in the account, and then promptly close that bitch the second the check clears.

Yup, there are fees. It's about $1 generally. I think it was $1.40 last time I got one at the PO but that was before any increases. Might be less at a wal mart though.
 

Monkeywrench

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Unless next year's figure is Cross-Country or Kwinn, or a damn impressive 25th version of someone big we're still missing like Keel-Haul, I'm not going to waste another year with them.

I personally think the subscription service won't even launch, and if it does, it'll flounder after the first run and they won't do another. They don't seem to have their shit together.

I wanted to support them, but after the clusterfuck management I've seen this past year, I'm not at all impressed. They've got a batting average of slightly more than 50% on their ME style figures, but they keep striking out on their management of shit.

It can't be that hard to run this thing.

agreed completely
 

Goldbug

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I canceled my card. I used my debit card as credit.
No weird charges thankfully.

Apparently now their website/forums are hacked & everyone's info was compromised from that.
It just gets better every time.

I wonder if the FSS will be this year's JoeCon exclusives.
 

Mandingo Rex

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So I just received my statement from last February, and I was able to confirm which CC I used. I'm watching it daily like a hawk...

The purchase was for $42 for "FUNPUBJOETFTOY" in case you need to check. I had to request a statement from my CC company for anything older than 6 months, which seems rather ridiculous to me. Took 3 days to get the damned thing via e-mail.

I sometimes don't hold out much hope for mankind making it another 50 years....
 

Mandingo Rex

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You know what I just realized... Their paper application that you have to mail in doesn't have anywhere for you to assign an e-mail address to your account.

So, I'm renewing my account, and opening a new one for my girlfriend (for me, of course) but how the fuck are you supposed to get e-mail notifications that way?

*EDIT*

Just looked back at their site, and they updated the PDF since I downloaded it. Dumb motherfuckers. They've added in "Email" and "Phone" because I assume someone realized their mistake.
 
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Monkeywrench

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You know what I just realized... Their paper application that you have to mail in doesn't have anywhere for you to assign an e-mail address to your account.

So, I'm renewing my account, and opening a new one for my girlfriend (for me, of course) but how the fuck are you supposed to get e-mail notifications that way?

I would assume after they get their shit right, you can add it later
 

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You know what I just realized... Their paper application that you have to mail in doesn't have anywhere for you to assign an e-mail address to your account.

So, I'm renewing my account, and opening a new one for my girlfriend (for me, of course) but how the fuck are you supposed to get e-mail notifications that way?

i just noticed that about a hour ago



side note, i mentioned that awhile back i got hit with fraud charges, and it was the same card and i only used it to renew the sub, i do think this has been going on for awhile and no one ever picked up on it.
 

Mandingo Rex

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I edited it after you guys posted. So they've updated their PDF since I downloaded and printed it. Dumbasses.

They added "phone" and "e-mail" slots. I just wrote them in. Going to the PO now to mail about 6 packages (Yes, Blood, your shit finally!) and buy 2 MOs. This pains the shit out of me.
 

Monkeywrench

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well that sucks. I mailed mine already...

I'll call them sometime later this year to update my shit
 

Mandingo Rex

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Hell yeah he's getting his stuff. Well, that's if the USPS doesn't lose it in the mail or if it doesn't catch fire. Both are quite possible with my track record.