Originally Posted by venice4504
Here in Seattle, if I attempt to pay for a ferry ticket with a cc that isn't signed, but says "see ID" the ferry denies me from using the card claiming it isn't "valid". This has happened to me and many other people. Don't know if it legit considering that the cc company says that you should sign it and take off that sticky when you get a new card.
Just writing "see ID" on the signature field does not make the card valid. The card must be signed in order to be valid. The ferry is playing by the rules.
I think the dumbest people are those who don't sign any of their cards, thinking that if the card isn't signed then the merchant will just ask for ID. But these are the cards that pickpockets like best because they can just sign the card themselves and all of a sudden their signature matches the one on the card.