Its holiday time and my dad has seen be spending my weekends getting this POS beater ready to drive for the winter. Being 66yo he can’t help me like he used to so he offers to pay for me to register it and pay the taxes. I appreciate it so he gives me his CC and tells me to just charge it.
Not my first rodeo @ the DMV, I’m fairly farmiliar with protocal. I roll in today around 1 O’clock to register the new beater. I got all my ish and fill out the registration and tax form and go to the counter for them to do my ish and cash me out. After all the paperwork is done I had her the card telling her its my fathers card because he wanted to pay this for me as a Christmas present. She says she can’t do that and he needs to authorize the the registration if the register isn’t the card holder. She appologizes and says she’s jsut doing her job. I tell her I understand and I’ll get it signed. So I drive to East Aurora and visit my rentals for a few and tell him he needs to authorize the paperwork before they can accept the card. He signs it and I’m off back to the DMV.
I get back, after waiting in line for another 10min I hand her the paperwork, show her the signature and hand her the card with my license. She flips the card over and shows me where it says “see ID” where the signature part is. I said, “you have my ID, he signed right there (pointing to his signature) authorizing me to use his card.” She says, “I don’t know who’s signature that is.” I says its my dad’s, the card holder’s? Who else’s would it be?" She then spouts off, “IDK, yours the guy in the hall’s” I have nothing to compare it to you need to bring me a copy of his license." So I take the stuff back and tell her I’ll see if he can fax it and get the fax #.
I call him up, he can’t fax it cuz the fax is down so I tell him to take a pic of it with his cell phone and send it to me and I’ll print it out at the office. Se he does and it’s turns out kinda shitty, a li lblurry but u can make out the signature. So I bring the shit back again, this time with the copy of the license and the C#nt denies me again and say’s. “its not legable enough, I need to check with the superviser.” She walks over to the dood next to her and he tells her not to accept it. By this time I’m getting pissed. Its now 3:30 and I still don’t have my fucking beater registered. So I argue with that guy for about 15 seconds about how if I stole a CC I wouldn’t have the CC owner sign the release and then send me a pic of his license, or make my first stop the fucking DMV. She struts back over then she pushes the paperwork back at me saying nope. I say screw it and hand her my card and tell her to put it on that. She slides it back to me again and tells me that I have an attude and that they aren’t going to process it and I need to go to another office. I politely tell her i’m not leaving until I get my plates and that she can appologize to all the people waiting behind me for making them wait in the mean time. After about another 20 seconds of staring each other down she says, “are you going to be quiet and behave?” I say nothing and she takes her good old time and finally finishes cashing me the fuck out.
All that to register a fucking car. I am still pissed off. Assholes…
and ot observation, i have never seen a guy working the dmv counter. i wonder if i could apply and say sexual discrimination if they didn’t hire me. or maybe age discrimination as everyone who works there is 45+
^^^ because it makes it to easy to get all the info you need to REALLY pull off a CC scam, think about it, do you REALLY want some 17yr old at McD’s iding everyone so that he knows your address along w/ your CC number ?
with that info you can buy anything you want online and have it shipped to the cc owners house, then go pluck it off the porch while they are at work or asleep. or for that matter a theiving employee at circuit city would know the future location of the 3,484,985 inch plasma tv he just sold
if they have your credit card number and your name and they want to pull off the scam that you have laid out, they could likely get your address from a phone book to complete that particular scheme. it’s not illegal to id someone for credit card use as far as i know.
I get pissed when I have to wait for some shmucks card to clear while I’m standing in line for one item. Its ridiculous, Credit cards are like free passes to live beyond your means. Its a joke and a half.
if it’s not your first time at the DMV you’ve seen the several parts where they require all that information for CC use. This is the reason i always use cash at the DMV it’s much easier and faster that way.
It sounds pretty much like you went the hard way to do it all. Using someones CC without them there. Not having the supporting facts to use said CC. Then getting mad at the DMV workers when your father wrote “see ID” on the back of the card. Th only person you should have gotten mad at was yourself.
I complied with every request the asked for to process the transaction. And each time there was another issue they brought up. They were being unreasonably difficult to tout their authority.
First not having the CC owners authorizations filled out on your DMV forms.
Then coming back with a CC that says “see ID” on it. It raises eyebrows and she was doing her job because that is usually used to make people more wary of CC fraud.
Then you tried to half ass a picture which a close up from almost ANY cell phone sucks. If i was a clerk i would have raised my eyebrows even more and have been more suspicious.
Then YOU were trowing the hissy fit because you weren’t getting your way and they were going to refuse service. Which is understandable. I wouldn’t take someones abuse because of their own mistakes. Wait, this is America that’s how we do here :roflpicard:
How do you know that schmuck isn’t using a debit card? Just because your fingers are too fat to handle one doesn’t mean everyone else can’t utilize one…
yeah you blew it dude, technically speaking, A CREDIT CARD IS NOT VALID UNLESS IT IS SIGNED ON THE BACK. the lady did her job the right way, don’t get pissed for that, it wasn’t even your card, looks kinda shady from a strangers perspective i bet. it’s not like some new rule the DMV made up to piss you off.