Doesn't everyone just fill in 90210? or does give away my age...
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Never Give Stores Your Zip Code
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Re: Never Give Stores Your Zip Code
#12It's kind of crazy that people expect to go unidentified after having used a debit or credit card with their name and a globally unique id on it. Anyone who cares at all about it should have used cash.
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#13If you ever need to return something they are entitled to your ID which has your entire address anyway.
If they ever swipe your license on their mag scanner, it contains everything about you.
Your state DMV sells your info to corporations for pennies, in fact sometimes under law it's required to.
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#14Doesn't everyone just fill in 90210? or does give away my age...
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#15edited Cashier: May I have your Zip Code? Me: F * no!
Does swearing make you feel more grown up?
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#16Doesn't everyone just fill in 90210? or does give away my age...
As a non american, this is the first american postcode I can think of off the top of my head.
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#17That's a shame. I've always given my ZIP code when asked, on the theory that the retailer was using that information to determine where to open new stores. If that's not the case, then they can have fun sending their snail-mail spam to my namesake in 90210.
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#18It's kind of crazy that people expect to go unidentified after having used a debit or credit card with their name and a globally unique id on it. Anyone who cares at all about it should have used cash.
Credit Card companies have rules in their merchant agreements that prevent companies from using credit card numbers as unique identifiers.
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#20When I worked in retail we asked everyone for their Zip code regardless of their payment method. We were told that it was so that the store could determine where their customers were coming from. Half the time we would just type in the store's Zip Code so that we didn't have to bother the customer. Gas stations on the other hand use Zip Codes as a way to prevent fraud. I've had my card rejected before by typing in th…
> Gas stations on the other hand use Zip Codes as a way to prevent fraud.
This also locks out customers with a non-US address (e.g. tourists) which often don't even have a 5-digit zip code or store it differently so that the check will fail, arguably defeating the entire point of owning a credit card.