Beware of Beckett!

[BobC]

Originally Posted by SAllen2556

The problem is you can't rely on a credit card being good 6 months after you have the number in hand. I run credit cards often, and in today's world, people's credit cards are flagged for fraud much more frequently than in the past. If I had a big order I'd feel like I had to run the card now and not risk the chance of the card not being good 6 months from now. It might not even be legal to run a credit card 6 months after you get the number, or at the very least, ok with the credit card company. Even as a customer, I wouldn't feel comfortable having a company keep my credit card number around for 6 months before running it.

But Scott, in this case the poster said they'd already held his cards for around 19 months, but had only had their credit card charged about 6 months ago. So, they already had the CC number for over a year before using it. And it is not illegal to give someone your credit card to use on an ongoing basis. For example, XBox charges my CC every year for their annual Gold Service membership, various AHs require having a CC number on file, and on and on. I have no idea where you ever got the idea that giving some business your CC number to use going forward was ever illegal.

And in this case, if there was a change or problem with the CC after so much time had passed, when the TPG goes to run the card through before the labeling occurs and the CC charge doesn't go through, they simply put the order aside and contact the submitter. But this charging the CC before your cards go to labeling still doesn't make sense. Think about it, if the TPG was really so concerned with avoiding delays, why would they wait till AFTER the cards had actually been examined and graded, and only get concerned when they were on their way to labeling. Doing the actual review and exam of the cards takes them time and money as well. Don't you think a normal business with such a supposed concern about delays and all would have run the CC through then before doing any work or incurring any costs or time in grading the cards? Why would anyone pick some arbitrary point midway in their grading process to draw the line as to when they needed to make sure the CC charge would go through for the grading? That's why I'm calling BS on the excuse of an answer they gave the OP.