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Rooks Nov 14, 2014 9:50 pm


Originally Posted by usalibido (Post 23844410)
I assume you just found that out? Otherwise it's been a week and you haven't either checked the store again or contacted Incomm, which seems very odd.

Anyway I would try both and probably report card lost with Incomm first.

I just figured it out today when I tried to buy an MO and my card was declined and I tried to check it online but it indicated that the card wasn't valid and wouldn't let me log in. I don't think incomm can do anything since I don't have the card. I'm going to CVS tomorrow morning and I'll try to find the card, hopefully nobody bought it. But if they did, an activated card isn't going to scan anyway I don't think. I don't know what would happen in that case.

usalibido Nov 14, 2014 10:13 pm


Originally Posted by Rooks (Post 23844471)
I just figured it out today when I tried to buy an MO and my card was declined and I tried to check it online but it indicated that the card wasn't valid and wouldn't let me log in. I don't think incomm can do anything since I don't have the card. I'm going to CVS tomorrow morning and I'll try to find the card, hopefully nobody bought it. But if they did, an activated card isn't going to scan anyway I don't think. I don't know what would happen in that case.

I don't know for sure but it is likely incomm might be able to "find" the card based on the last 4 digits and the receipt/store info, or at least to see what they say.

Rooks Nov 15, 2014 5:06 am


Originally Posted by usalibido (Post 23844536)
I don't know for sure but it is likely incomm might be able to "find" the card based on the last 4 digits and the receipt/store info, or at least to see what they say.

I called them last night and the guy said they could only help me if I had the card but it was not activated. Granted you can call these places multiple times and get different answers...I'll try going back to the store when they open this morning.

Rooks Nov 15, 2014 7:05 am

I may be wrong about CVS. I bought some OV on Thursday night at RA and I just checked my receipt and below one of the cards it says, "CARD MAY TAKE 24 HOURS TO ACTIVATE." I have never seen this on one of my receipts before. I think this may be the problematic card, not the ones I bought at CVS, because I watched the CVS cashier scan my cards and it seemed she did give me the right one. I'm going to call OV and try to get this activated with the RA receipt.

dogbyte Nov 15, 2014 12:18 pm


Originally Posted by bos428 (Post 23825816)
It's been happening to me as well in MA. Having the clerk ring them up one at a time seems to work fine, but I have also told the clerks to type in my drivers license number manually. That doesn't freeze the register and I am able to put them all on one transaction. It seems to be hit or miss whether or not the cashier will know how to do it.

I'm in CT and it has happened to me multiple times where the computer freezes after the ID scan. I initially thought it was a fluke the first time, but when I came back another day, the same thing happened. I tried at a different CVS and had the same issue. The clerk then attempted at a different register. I asked her to swipe the DL instead of scanning it and there was no issue.

gloobnib Nov 15, 2014 2:30 pm


Originally Posted by Rooks (Post 23845472)
I may be wrong about CVS. I bought some OV on Thursday night at RA and I just checked my receipt and below one of the cards it says, "CARD MAY TAKE 24 HOURS TO ACTIVATE." I have never seen this on one of my receipts before. I think this may be the problematic card, not the ones I bought at CVS, because I watched the CVS cashier scan my cards and it seemed she did give me the right one. I'm going to call OV and try to get this activated with the RA receipt.

I had this happen to me for the first time last night. Bought 4 OVs at CVS and one of the 4 said "ACCEPTED PREPAID CARD ACTIVATION WILL OCCUR WITHIN 24 HOURS" (all caps on the receipt).

It has now been 29 hours and still no activation. Any suggestions? Should I give it another night, or call OV right away?

Songer5 Nov 16, 2014 7:51 pm


Originally Posted by dogbyte (Post 23846566)
I'm in CT and it has happened to me multiple times where the computer freezes after the ID scan. I initially thought it was a fluke the first time, but when I came back another day, the same thing happened. I tried at a different CVS and had the same issue. The clerk then attempted at a different register. I asked her to swipe the DL instead of scanning it and there was no issue.

Same thing for me in NYC. We just swiped alll 5 individually. It seemed I was able to buy over the $2000 max this way.

Membersince2013 Nov 17, 2014 8:24 pm

Happened to me today too. Register froze after second $500

rtraveler Nov 18, 2014 5:23 am


Originally Posted by Songer5 (Post 23852230)
Same thing for me in NYC. We just swiped alll 5 individually. It seemed I was able to buy over the $2000 max this way.

One way i've gotten around the $2k max is when the cashiers recognize me as a regular, they usually let me charge $2k per credit card. So i've done $4k at a time.

ericdabbs Nov 18, 2014 9:30 am


Originally Posted by rtraveler (Post 23859125)
One way i've gotten around the $2k max is when the cashiers recognize me as a regular, they usually let me charge $2k per credit card. So i've done $4k at a time.

They don't scan your DL after $1K?

rtraveler Nov 18, 2014 9:43 am


Originally Posted by ericdabbs (Post 23860121)
They don't scan your DL after $1K?

My data is a little old. I did this prior to 10/20. Have not purchased any in last month. But they would scan my license.

picards007 Nov 18, 2014 11:39 am


Originally Posted by Membersince2013 (Post 23857784)
Happened to me today too. Register froze after second $500

Ditto on the freeze in DC. Happened Friday (11/14) and today (11/18). Able to purchase one card w/o DL scan.

FTR 787 Nov 18, 2014 12:39 pm


Originally Posted by rtraveler (Post 23860183)
My data is a little old. I did this prior to 10/20. Have not purchased any in last month. But they would scan my license.

umm whats the point of that, you do know the limit prev was $5k right? ... and that you can split payment if you wanted to just pay $2k on one CC even if you rang em all up at once.

you're not getting a new limit every time they scan your DL. it just adds to your rolling 24 hr limit.

rtraveler Nov 18, 2014 1:02 pm


Originally Posted by FTRox87 (Post 23861050)
umm whats the point of that, you do know the limit prev was $5k right? ... and that you can split payment if you wanted to just pay $2k on one CC even if you rang em all up at once.

you're not getting a new limit every time they scan your DL. it just adds to your rolling 24 hr limit.

I used to split up the purchase in order to meet spending requirements for cc's.

FTR 787 Nov 18, 2014 1:16 pm

ok, you can do that with one transaction too tho...


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