Re: Egg keep blocking my card 'for my protection'


Colin Forrester wrote:
> Mark BR wrote:
>
> >>> Cahoot offer a handy `webcard` thingy which gives you a one-time
> >>> credit card number - I'm suprised more banks don't do this.
> >> Agreed.
> >>
> >
> > BUT don't use it to buy an airline ticket online. Most (all??) airlines
> > require sight of the actual credit card when you try to board, and of course
> > you don't have one with the 'correct' number.
>
> This is what most airlines tell you - but I have never been asked to
> produce my payment card - ever. The only place it was a slight
> inconvenience was getting a cinema ticket and Eurostar - where the self
> service ticket machines needed to read the payment card.

A *few* airlines. When I last booked a ticket online, I was given a
list of about three that wanted to see the card at check-in, and I was
indeed asked for my card when I travelled on one of them. I don't know
what happens if you don't have the card with you, for example, because
it is lost ot stolen, or you simply got a replacement card with a
different number as happens with Nationwide debit cards.

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