Re:Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight
by dangrossman on Friday July 29, 2011 @06:44AM
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How do you do #1? The card you get with many bank check accounts is a bank card, is a debit card, and will auth through your payment gateway as a credit card just fine. AFAIK, you don't know what backs the number someone just gave your web form, only whether your auth/capture on it worked or not. Would they need to require a faxed copy of the card?
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The same way a hotel does it. Pre-approve a deposit on a credit card or actually remove a deposit on a debit card.
Re:Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight
by dangrossman on Friday July 29, 2011 @09:42PM
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We're not on the same wavelength here... as I said, you can authorize (pre-approve an amount to charge) on bank cards, debit cards with the Visa/MC logo, Visa/MC gift cards, etc. Since that's true, an auth doesn't tell you that the person presented a credit card.