arilua said: You have to run it as credit. I learned the hard way when it froze my account for 12 hours. >_<
So I’ve learned as well, thankfully without the frozen account. Sorry that happened to you! Mine was very close. I went to the station intending to get ten dollars of gas and instead just grabbed five... and when I checked my account I had four dollars left! So, it was a close one with me.
wannabecatwriter said: Wow, thanks for the info. I definitely did not know and could’ve freaked out if it happened to me. They should at least issue some warning at gas stations about that.
From what I understand there are fine print warnings at some gas stations or something, I dunno. @_@ it’s not something I ever saw or heard about. I definitely had a lot of freaking out and anxiety today.
positivitycorner said: It doesn’t happen at every gas station but it is a common enough practice that I’ve had it happen to me a few times. You could try going into to gas station and asking to be charged a specific amount on the card in advance instead of a hold.
I’ve never heard of it until this happened today :S I’ll be using either cash in the future or running it as a credit card. It’s so scary!
cawthorntales said: thats happened to my mom before
I’m sorry to hear that... I’m surprised I haven’t heard about this sooner, judging from all the people telling me it’s happened to them or someone they know. That’s why I’m spreading the news in case my followers (or friends on facebook) didn’t know.