CIBC bank machines "sold out" of Fido prepaid?!

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felixcct@yahoo.com - 13 Jan 2007 00:13 GMT

I tried to get a Fido prepaid voucher out of a CIBC bank machine today
and it said they were temporarily sold out. Huh? Don't they just print
a number on the receipt? How can they be sold out? Maybe their agreed
range of prepaid voucher number ran out over Christmas and they haven't
bothered to re-order? Doesn't say very much for the alertness of either
party!

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DevilsPGD - 13 Jan 2007 04:20 GMT

>I tried to get a Fido prepaid voucher out of a CIBC bank machine today
>and it said they were temporarily sold out. Huh? Don't they just print
>a number on the receipt? How can they be sold out? Maybe their agreed
>range of prepaid voucher number ran out over Christmas and they haven't
>bothered to re-order? Doesn't say very much for the alertness of either
>party!

That could be CIBC's code word for "Out of order" (if the transactions
are done in real time)

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repatch - 13 Jan 2007 04:40 GMT

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:13:18 -0800, felixcct wrote:

> I tried to get a Fido prepaid voucher out of a CIBC bank machine today
> and it said they were temporarily sold out. Huh? Don't they just print
> a number on the receipt? How can they be sold out? Maybe their agreed
> range of prepaid voucher number ran out over Christmas and they haven't
> bothered to re-order? Doesn't say very much for the alertness of either
> party!

Having ordered a prepaid voucher on an ATM, it's clear that the "number"
is retried "live" from somewhere (judging by the time it takes to complete
the transaction), I am 99% certain the numbers are not "stored" on the
machine.

Likely the link between CIBC and Fido was temporarily down.

That does suck though if you're just about to expire! Preauthorized top up
is the way I go, don't need vouchers.

TTYL

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