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Need help. Pizza shop stole from us.?
I ordered food delivery from a privately owned pizza store with my last money we have to our names to last me and my mother 4 days until we get our Social Security. When I called and gave the owner my debit card to pay over the phone and when he asked for my zip code he reversed a number in the zip code resulting in the card being declined but still making an authorization hold on my card for the purchase amount. He refused to help us in any way even though it was his fault. He just kept on saying the hold will fall off in a few business days. Now we are left with no money and no food...he just said to call back when we have more money. So I am asking what recourse do we have for tonight? Can we call the police and the police can help us somehow? Cause isn t what he did theft? We need help ASAP. BTW, we have no car to get anywhere and we have no friends or family or neighbors to ask for help and we literally don t have a bread crumb in the house and don t even have a nickle anywhere.
We ordered enough food for the 4 days. And my card is a US direct express card. I called them all day and recording says they are busy and try again another time.
It is his fault my money was taken off the card. How is this not theft? If I went into his store and stole food and ran out the door, the police would be on me in seconds.
We will have money on Tuesday when me and my mom get our Social Security. And it's Friday night so the welfare office isn't going to do us any good.
Damien. Actually it is $107. We ordered enough food for 4 days. I got the SSI portion of my money today and used that. I normally get it on 1st and me and my mom get our SSDI on the 3rd. And we only have money for a few days of the month. We are broke so we don't have $100 to around. And before you say we should havebought groceries with the $107, well we have no car and no way to get to a grocery store. No bus nearby either. We rent a car to buy food and do errands on every 3rd of the month.
Steven F. I have proof that they put an authorization hold on my card. I have the transaction history stored in my phone and I copied it on paper too. The store owner said it was declined on their end.
12 Answers
- Anonymous1 year ago
You should have budgeted better. You should have known any purchase you make with a card puts a hold on at least that much of the credit/debit value of the card.
- Anonymous1 year ago
Why didn't you order from a grocery store that delivers?
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- Brother XLv 51 year ago
They haven't stolen it, neither of you have the money, I'm sorry that it's happened though but you'll get it back.
You can get meals at the soup kitchen until Monday but if you can't even make it there then is it really a crime to snatch a loaf of bread to feed your starving family and even if it is...
- STEVEN FLv 71 year ago
You FLAT OUT LIED. If the bank denied the charge for ANY reason, there would NOT be a authorization hold, because there would be no authorization.
That is an IRREFUTABLE FACT. Your story CANNOT be accurate.
Besides, even if it were true, the shop owner wouldn't be ABLE to do anything about it.
We ordered enough food for the 4 days.
ABSOLUTE BS.
- Anonymous1 year ago
You have no recourse with your pizza place there's been no theft it happens when you give information and the card gets declined the money will go back onto your credit card all by itself in a few days. In the meantime if you're broke and don't have any money to afford food go to the food stamp office and ask for a voucher for the local food bank don't give you three weeks worth of food per person and it only takes about an hour.
- StarShineLv 71 year ago
So you were going to use what little money you had to buy pizza for tonight. What were you going to do for the next three days? You should have used the money to buy a reasonable number of groceries for the next week.
Some systems will take time to reverse or take the hold off the card. You could try calling your card provider (ie bank) to see if they can help process it more quickly but I'm not sure anyone can help, including the police.
Check for a food pantry in your area to get you though until everything is sorted out. Some deliver if you don't have transportation or offer vouchers for public transit to pick up the food.
