Originally Posted by nwflyboy

You can be upset and disturbed if you want. Won't change a thing (well, not in a positive way - for anyone). Nothing new.

What you describe is standard procedure. It's well known that if a CC is declined at Simon, you are generally done for the day.

As for "break the laws with bias" that's laughable. No store has any requirement to sell you anything if they don't feel like it. You have no constitutional right to buy anything (or MS) on terms that you dictate. If a store just decides they they don't want to sell you something, for whatever reason, they are perfectly within their rights to tell you to go pound sand. (The only exception is if you are turned away because you are a member of a protected class, and that's not the reason here - having a credit card declined does not make you a member of a protected class).

Suck it up, get over it, don't make a stink, and stop waving your pocket constitution. You screwed up, not them, so just be polite and move on.

Ah, the sense of entitlement...