Giving Credit Card Details

[Scunner]

But at some stage, someone I don't know will remove the outer envelope and be presented with all the details they need to have a damn good spending spree...

To me it is a very irresponsible thing to ask you to write down and give. A lot of honest people can succumb to temptation when it is easily presented to them.

[tribalelder]

Could you not put cash in the envelope then the spending spree will be limited to the amount of cash.

[jrichards1]

Cant you give them a cheque?

[posleeds]

I wouldn't give all my details - just asking for trouble.
Just put your telephone number on the order form & ask them to contact you for card details - they should if they are after the business.
Is there no way of ordering the photo's on-line directly from the company rather than through school?

[Highlander]

quote:Originally posted by posleeds

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Is there no way of ordering the photo's on-line directly from the company rather than through school?

 :oMay that not be open to the worst kind of abuse.

[Scunner]

I think my point is more that the photographers should not even ask for these details, whether there are alternative methods of payment or not. People might not see the security risk of sending your child out with all the credit card details needed by a con artist - now that exposes the parent to the risk of being scammed, and quite possibly exposes children to the risk of being targeted too - any scammer seeing a child walking to school with one of these envelopes is just an easy snatch away from a spending spree.

Again I say I may be paranoid but this is a company who make their money through their association with schools, and I would have expected them to be far more responsible than this.

[posleeds]

quote:Originally posted by Highlander

quote:Originally posted by posleeds

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Is there no way of ordering the photo's on-line directly from the company rather than through school?

 :oMay that not be open to the worst kind of abuse.

[?]Why if it's a secure site - millions of people shop on-line every day paying by credit card - it would bypass the child carrying the details - far more open to abuse in my eyes  

[Highlander]

posleeds - it was not credit card abuse I referred to but something much worse.

Maybe I'm totally wrong.

[posleeds]

quote:Originally posted by Highlander

posleeds - it was not credit card abuse I referred to but something much worse.

Maybe I'm totally wrong.

Ahh I see what your getting at  
Several years ago my son's school only gave the option of ordering school photo's on-line.  Each family was given a unique login number so they could view their childs photo's only (individual/class & year photo's) - if you were happy with them you ordered.  You could not view other pupils individual pictures & unless some unscrupulous being got hold of the login number it seemed quite secure.

How times have changed!

[stoop]

H,

We had some family photos done a few years back and when they were ready we got an email from the photographer with our account details, password and a link to the photos. Only those with these details could see and order our photos. Even now, after 3 or 4 years, we can go back on and order more if we want and it's secure as long as the photographer keeps his end of the bargain (I guess he's covered by the data protection act once we sign into the deal).

So it can be done much easier and much safer on line I think.