Originally Posted by ericdabbs

I am surprised you got pushback on your USB card purchases since whenever there is some fraud especially when they see attempted charge activity on the card before it was activated by the merchant. I have had that twice already and USB issued me new VGCs which took about 5-10 business days. I just prefer not to let the banks know about VGC buy activity unless I have to. I guess for $200 its ok but if I was doing like $1.5K then I would try to resolve this with USB first before trying to go through the credit card company.