I tried to use the other site and I got an order rejected and when I tried to order again I got this message:

"Please be advised that _ _ has received notification from MasterCard of new policies which if enforced, will prohibit the use of MasterCard as a method of payment for purchases of tobacco products and accessories. Please press OK to continue or CANCEL to select Visa, American Express or Discover all of which are not restricted by such policy"

I will be cancelling all of my MasterCards and going with Visa. To heck with MC and _ _.

Sounds pretty silly for them to restrict what you can and cannot purchase.

It's not like you just attempted to buy an entire case of Sudafed, LOL.

-JT

I think someone at Mastercard is just pissed because you make so much money and had such a crappy season for the SF Giants last year.

That's fuq'ed up.

What really ticked me off was the CR person telling me that my account was suspended because my CC was declined for "an unknown reason." I deleted all my information and told them to keep my account suspended and maybe they can get a bailout from MasterCard since they will get ZERO purchases from me.

CI did this?

maybe we should start a boycott of mastercard?

I use Amex primarily anyway. I'll be sure to choose my Visa over M/C just because of this.

The only time I've heard of a credit card cancelling a person's ability to purchase tobacco was if it was from a company in a different state as the card holder because of tax issues.

Tim and I live in PA, so all of our CI/CBid bills have PA taxes and all is fine in the world. Now if we buy tobacco from a place in North Carolina or Florida, then we don't get taxes levied on us and it's our own responsibility to pay those taxes.

Maybe MasterCard is doing this as an effort to enforce state tobacco laws?

Either way, it's BS.

-JT

Try giving them the excuse they use on some other auction sites that do not allow cigar sales. Tell them you are buying to collect the box and bands, and do not have any interest in the tobacco.

RE #9

Was talking with gonesledn about this earlier tonight. He found some additional posts/threads on other fourms which seem to indicate that this is, in fact, tax based. It basically sounds like MC is trying to potentially shed themselves of being "the enabler" for people to make tobacco purchases across state lines and therefore avoid paying taxes.

What seems to be utter BS about this though is that zito's MC payment was pre-emptively rejected by a vendor because "there might be restrictions in the future", they haven't actually occurred yet, but they might, maybe, someday, possibly...

A few catalongs back, that particular vendor mentioned that they might be getting their own branded CC/payment card of some sort. What better way to get people to switch to your card, than by taking away one form of payment, while being able to pin the reason for the hatchet job right on the bank card that just got axed?

I see Lew, a Visa rep and an Amex rep all sitting around a dimy lit table rasing their glasses toating the oblitteration of MC as a payment opion there...

Brillant!

Brillant!

Brillant!

*clink*

Maybe it was just a gentle way of telling you to pay your MC bill.

at my age i use "bill me later."

"at my age i use "bill me later."

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That's awesome Rick, want to buy me a new car?

I just bought Lots of sticks with my MC

if the tax issue is the reason, the logic is faulty. Makes no sense to restrict sales because of people avoiding tobacco tax (a rather small amount of transactions) when millions of dollars in state sales tax is avoided by internet/mail order/phone order transactions on non-tobacco products. Following the logic, MC would have to stop accepting all internet/mail order/phone order transactions unless the vendors agree to collect tax.

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Topped for LadyHay

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Looks like it ain't a hoax

this thread is going back to January 2009

Thanks for topping this.

I am still trying to find out more info.

... PayPal does the same stupid stuff with anything gun or ammo related ...