alex71360

I am in full agreement with this post. I had a check recently declined in Arvada, Colorado at a Gart Sports location. I paid the bill with a credit card but the embarassment was significant. The line was several people long and the looks from the other customers translated into "trying to pass a bad check huh". I called the number and after dealing with the poorly structured auto-attendant finally dealt with some woman who asked the same questions (as the auto-attendant) over again. The lady did tell me that my check was not declined because of some fictitious bad report but because they needed some information from the actual check! Is it possible that the merchants check reader was malfunctioning and did not read all the characters? I am not sure what is going on with TeleCheck but this is the last time I do business with a TeleCheck merchant. In fact I will be transitioning to check cards or all credit cards as a result. In the mean-time Gart Sports will no longer receive any of my business and neither will other TeleCheck merchants.