Originally Posted by
JEFFJAGUAR
I also agree that I think it is absurd when people suggest not using credit cards for small purchases because of the possibility of having the card cloned. Please thinking like that is absurd and defeats the whole purpose of what credit cards are supposed to do.
Agreed. My compromised card was one that we have been using for 10-30 transactions a month for almost a year. So, it was probably bound to happen, but we knew that going in. We have migrated from using cash for all small purchases to using credit cards wherever we can, to the point that we have to remember to use our ATM cards to draw cash every couple months so our bank doesn't shut them down for lack of use. (Which they did once.)