I know this can be done in the states but I don't think it's possible here (yet) - it's a "one-shot" virtual credit card that you can load with whatever value you want to make a particular payment. Once the value is used it's dead... a good solution imho
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 03/08/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">DL Neil</b> <<a href="mailto:GLLUG@getaroundtoit.co.uk">GLLUG@getaroundtoit.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Quoting Ian Norton-Badrul <<a href="mailto:bredroll@darkspace.org.uk">bredroll@darkspace.org.uk</a>>:
<br><br>> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:48:29AM +0100, Henrik Morsing wrote:<br>>> I have previously been with PlusNet and they're absolutely superb.<br>><br>> Plusnet terminated my contact for 'unspecified reasons' and continued to bill
<br>> my switch card every month for 5 months, they refused to let me<br>> contact them to<br>> complain because my account was blacklisted<br>...<br>> In the end I reported to my bank that 'some funny internet company is showing
<br>> up on my statement and i've never authorised any payments', natwest<br>> changed my<br>> card and gave me my refund.<br><br>As someone who has lived overseas and who has set up an 'Internet<br>Bank', this characteristic of UK commerce leaves me with chills.
<br><br>Similarly I have found component suppliers 'dipping into' my<br>Switch/Maestro account after over-refunding me; and when Bulldog was<br>leashed to Pipex they set up a new Direct Debit Agreement without<br>
reference to me (not so bad, but the old one was left 'alive' and thus<br>left me exposed to 'double-dipping').<br><br>There seems to be no way to stop a Maestro repeated payment - indeed<br>is there even a way to stop a single transaction
<br>magically/accidentally becoming a repeating payment? At least with a<br>Direct Debit one can go online and cancel the arrangement (but can the<br>other party then reinstate it without reference on the basis of the<br>
original signed document?). With Internet transfers/payments, the<br>account holder is in control, eg how I pay my web host and yet cover<br>'extras' such as new domain registrations.<br><br>Which regular payment method is the safest/least exposed to supplier
<br>arrogance/abuse, that at the same time is acceptable to suppliers?<br><br>Regards,<br>=dn<br><br><br>--<br>Gllug mailing list - <a href="mailto:Gllug@gllug.org.uk">Gllug@gllug.org.uk</a><br><a href="http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug">
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