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Re: AAA/Travel Rent A Car Credit Card Fraud Charges
[Re: bchwkr]
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03/28/2015 12:16 PM
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When you say AAA, do you mean AAA in the US or AAA Car Rental in Sint Maarten? I just want to confirm because I think people are going to get confused as there is a AAA Car Rental and Triple A Car Rental (two totally seperate businesses) in SXM and someone might confuse the two.
Last edited by wilsonck; 03/28/2015 12:17 PM.
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Re: AAA/Travel Rent A Car Credit Card Fraud Charges
[Re: wilsonck]
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03/28/2015 12:45 PM
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GaKaye
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I positive that the original poster is referring to the American Automobile Association, not Triple A in SXM. As others have stated, a rental through Alain would be handled by him, and not by Travel Rent A Car.
Edited to add: I stand corrected.
Last edited by GaKaye; 03/28/2015 01:24 PM.
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Re: AAA/Travel Rent A Car Credit Card Fraud Charges
[Re: bchwkr]
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03/28/2015 01:09 PM
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Carol_Hill
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If the charges occurred back home in the US, why in the WORLD would you assume that it had anything to do with SXM???
Carol Hill
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Re: AAA/Travel Rent A Car Credit Card Fraud Charges
[Re: oceanbreeze]
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03/28/2015 01:14 PM
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oceanbreeze,
Many of the car rental agencies have agreements and arrangements with other agencies so that in the rare situation where they end up overbooked or short cars due to damaged vehicles, breakdowns or people extending their trips last minute, they can still service their regular clients rather than turn them away. That's called good business in my book.
AAA is not the agency we deal with, nor is his alliance partner, but he is a man who has been running his business for a long time and with a very good reputation with most on this forum who use him and I'm certain the OPs problems will be resolved rapidly, and if I'm reading the OPs posts correctly, they may not even have anything to do with these businesses.
We used to have similar problems with our Citicards when we vacationed on the island, but after the third time it happened to us, and while Citi never admitted it, we felt it had something to do with internal fraud at Citi, though we may have been wrong about that. It was a pain in the neck at the time, but in the overall scheme of things, not a big deal, at least not for us though it sure seemed as though it was then. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />
Respectfully,
pat
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Re: AAA/Travel Rent A Car Credit Card Fraud Charges
[Re: bchwkr]
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03/28/2015 08:45 PM
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Sorry, you have absolutely NO evidence to support that this card was compromised on SXM. None at all.
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Re: AAA/Travel Rent A Car Credit Card Fraud Charges
[Re: PML]
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03/28/2015 09:07 PM
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My issues were also with Citi but in each case, the charges were made Stateside while we were on island and in each case the charges were made around the world but none in SXM. Because of the way the third fraudulent charge was made, we decided to STOP notifying Citi of our trips, and since then we've had no problems. We've taken to using only our Cap One cards with the general authorization being "customer frequently travels to SXM, STB AND AXA" and we've had no problems since we adopted this way of using our cards.
I completely agree with the others who have stated there is no way you can say with absolute certainty the issues stem from these SXM businesses. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />
Respectfully,
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Re: AAA/Travel Rent A Car Credit Card Fraud Charges
[Re: GaKaye]
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03/29/2015 08:58 AM
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The OP stated that it is his opinion that the only time the card could have been compromised was at the Travel Rent A Car desk. He is entitled to that opinion and it may have happened just like he says. None of you naysayers have provided any hard evidence that it did not happen this way. It may have. If I were Alain, I would certainly want to know so I could investigate. Maybe he will find that there is someone new at Travel Rent A Car that he doesn't trust and that he will chose to no longer be associated with them. The OP never said Alain had anything to do with the fraud. he only said that Alain passed him to this other business that may indeed committed the fraud.
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Re: AAA/Travel Rent A Car Credit Card Fraud Charges
[Re: bchwkr]
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03/29/2015 09:01 AM
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The bogus charge was in the STATES, there is zero proof that this had anything to do with anyone on island. The card could have been compromised in a million different ways, in the STATES. This one is done.
Carol Hill
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