Pilot flying j issue
Traveling to Florida , I decided to use pilot flying j for gas because of the discount. I received a message from my card company that Pilot had put a 500 dollar hold on my account rendering the card ...
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ScottG wrote:
It's common to have a small hold put on it while fueling but that's ridiculous.
I would bet if you were the station owner and had drive offs and bad cards run through your station, a $500 hold would look like extremely cheap protection.
Stands to reason, Flying J, HIGH VOLUME, HIGH DOLLAR TRANSACTIONS, RVs with BIG TANKS will = larger hold.
Bet if the OP went to a smaller low profile CONSUMER fuel station the holds they use will be far less..
Not sure why the OP or anyone would be surprised.
And yeah, don't understand why the OPs card would have such a SMALL credit limit, unless they don't have good credit or are a high credit risk..
Best to have SEVERAL credit cards to shuffle around..
