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Old 11-06-2008, 10:35 PM   #16
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I'm sorry... the title of this topic is out of line. Sony is NOT a SCAM. If you were denied credit then that was the bank... not Sony. If you purchase was not approved then that was the bank not Sony. Did you perhaps make a phone call or send an email to the credit card company to see why the charge was denied.

Please stop spreading FUD.

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We have Sony laptops at work beacuse "they look nice". Mostly, thankfully, they're reliable because I loathe their customer support - it used to be OK, then they farmed it out to another company, and it's dire.

Not as dire as I've known HP to be - have I said about being asked what happens if I turned a server on - after telling the chap that the server concerned was full of water?
I stopped buying Sony computers when someone at their "customer support" informed me that because I had hooked up my printer by myself, I had voided my warranty (wtf??). Yep ... shame on me, hooking that serial cable up to the serial port by myself ... what WAS I thinking??

That was a long time ago. I still bought Sony TVs and monitors for a while after that, but customer service was so awful on those items that I've started looking elsewhere for those products as well.
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Old 11-06-2008, 11:42 PM   #18
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Gonna have ta agree w/ Pilot Bob on this...
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Old 11-07-2008, 02:02 AM   #19
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Gonna have ta agree w/ Pilot Bob on this...
Ah, admit it ... you're just agreeing with PB because he's smart and cute.
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Old 11-07-2008, 03:35 AM   #20
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I'm sorry... the title of this topic is out of line. Sony is NOT a SCAM. If you were denied credit then that was the bank... not Sony. If you purchase was not approved then that was the bank not Sony. Did you perhaps make a phone call or send an email to the credit card company to see why the charge was denied.

Please stop spreading FUD.

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I completely agree with you, Bob. I entirely fail to see how this can be blamed on Sony. It is Chase who declined the credit, not Sony.
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Old 11-07-2008, 07:19 AM   #22
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Old 11-07-2008, 10:10 AM   #24
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Yes, but if the Chase card has a credit limit then disallowing a particular purchase within that limit is unusual. Reasons for disallowing a transaction that have nothing to do with credit are things like mismatched name, or wrong CC number, or mismatched address.
Actually, I have problems with my Chase Visa card all the time. I've had this card for years, but they seem to treat online purchases extremely suspiciously. Anytime I place an online order for anything more than a trivial amount, they seem to automatically deny the charge until I call them up and tell them that it was authorized. I don't know if Chase has been hit by a lot of online credit card fraud, or if it's just a paranoid policy, but this happens to me a lot. I tend to try and avoid using my Chase card online if I can help it.
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It's because I am afraid of his flaming prowess.
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Old 11-07-2008, 02:20 PM   #26
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Actually, I have problems with my Chase Visa card all the time. I've had this card for years, but they seem to treat online purchases extremely suspiciously. Anytime I place an online order for anything more than a trivial amount, they seem to automatically deny the charge until I call them up and tell them that it was authorized. I don't know if Chase has been hit by a lot of online credit card fraud, or if it's just a paranoid policy, but this happens to me a lot. I tend to try and avoid using my Chase card online if I can help it.
I don't have Chase, but I know this about my current (and soon to be ex credit card), they use to call me after a big purchase to confirm I had actually made it. I didn't mind this at all. Last summer though, I pretty much had it when they denied my credit card and locked the account when I tried to buy a laptop in the store. It took me two calls to to them to get it sorted out. They claim it was for "my protection" because I usually didn't put $2000 purchases on my card (Well Duh... who does?). They claimed I could have called them and got it sorted out, even though it almost always takes 10 minutes to get a live voice on the phone. It was all very annoying and embarrassing. Fortunately, I had the money in my checking account (I never buy what I can't pay off at the end of the month).

But in any case, in situations like this, I am far, far more likely to blame the credit card company than I would be Sony.

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Well, yes .... there is that too.
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Well, yes .... there is that too.
I don't think I flame people. But, sometimes I do try to keep it real. There are no absolutes in most things.

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