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Old Apr 29, 2004 | 7:51 am
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Originally Posted by ethanb
I just spoke with a CS rep and my purchase from this morning is showing up as an "authorization for a cash advance." Oh well... Hopefully this is just with these new ones and not a new general policy. Earlier I tried having my cash advance limit set to zero for this card and they said they could not do it.
I purchased one of the Holston cards yesterday via a Citi AA MC; though forgiftcards is showing "purchased not activated", Citi doesn't show the transaction yet, so no data yet on Citi. (Anyone else try a Citi MC for this?)
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