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Tip 134: Credit Where It's Due
Sunday, February 20, 2000
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PROBLEM: Your credit card company, suspecting something is amiss when you're overseas, cancels or puts a hold on your card.
SOLUTION: "Contact your credit card company in advance to let it know which countries you'll be using your card in," urges Peter Alvestad of Middletown, Md. "Then, when charges from Abu Dhabi show up on a card that previously had been used only in Northern Virginia, the company's computer won't put a hold on it." And if you plan on taking a card that you haven't used in a while . . . well, don't. "Use the card several times in the months preceding a trip to a foreign destination," advises Bowie's Sheila Allen, or, as she once discovered, the credit card company may mistakenly smell a rat and cancel it in mid-trip.
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