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RE: Pilot FJ Loyality Card Update
Damn! It seems to be that what ever Pilot/FJ a person goes into they are going to be treated differently. When I went into the P/FJ at Wells, Nevada They required my SS# and my date of birth for the loyalty card/ Frequent Fueler Card. And the people at GS backed that up. I quit Good Sam because of it. Now people are saying that is not a requirement at the stations they go to so I tried again at a station north of Sacramento and was asked for my SS# and date of birth again. I told the clerk I only wanted the F/F card not the credit card and was told they still needed my SS# and date of birth.
I asked what the discount was with the F/F card and was told it was $.02 per gallon. I decided it was not worth the bother.
It seems to me that Pilot/Flying J and Good Sam need to better train there people. Or get rid of the people who are out to steal their customers personal info. Until thy do they will not get my business.
Neither one of them.
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Les Curren
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01/28/12 03:55pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Good Sam's Club and Pilot/Flying J Card
Dick A
When I told the young lady at the pilot station I did not want a credit card just the frequent fueler card she told me I still had to give her the Social securety number and date of birth. Now if your saying thats not the case I propose you straigten the people at Pilot and GSC out because they seem to think it is exactly the case.
And maybe someone out there can explain to me and others why they need my Social Securety number and Date of Birth for a frequent fueler card?
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Les Curren
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01/13/12 08:55am |
General RVing Issues
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Good Sam's Club and Pilot/Flying J Card
Ok being a Good Sam's Club member and being presented the oportunity to get a discount Gas card from Pilot/Flying J I went to one of there stations and asked to get a application. The young lady said she would take my application right now and proceeded to ask me questions. Among which was my Social Security number and my date of birth. The two leading things that people who want to steal your identity need. I asked her why she needed that info since I was not asking for credit. She said that in a way I would be getting a credit card because they would bill me at the end of the month. I told her I did not want a credit card just a discount gas card in connection with my Good Sam's club membership. I already have enough credit cards. She still needed my private info to fill out the form or it would not go through.
So with that info I called Sam's club and they confirmed what she said.
This does not bode well with me at all. Pilot and Flying J require me to give them private info that anyone of there employees can steal and sell to the professional Identity Theft criminals and Good Sam's Club goes along with it. I feel Good Sam's Club needs to look into this real soon.
Based on the way I was treated when I called Good Sam's Club to let them know what Pilot/ Flying J required I decided I was better off without Good Sam's Club and stopped my membership right than. Be very carefull about giving private info to people who are not justified in receiving it and companies who tell you it's ok as if you were senile or a child.
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Les Curren
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01/12/12 07:44pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Interstate Batteries - Pro's - Con's
Interstate Batteries warrantee is non existant. I bought two interstates from one of there dealers at $101 each. Both failed in less than one year they both had dead cells and when I took them back it would have cost me more to replace them than I paid for them. They used a ficticious figure to pro rate them that is more than double the original price.
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Les Curren
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12/15/11 02:50pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Nominate the worst highways for Motorhomes
U.S. 191 in Eastern Arizona, from Alpine down to Clifton. It is 90 miles of Hell. In fact it used to be SR666. We came down it in March. It had just been opened after a snow closure. There are no shoulders and no guard rails. You drop from 8500 feet at Alpine to 3400 feet at Clifton. You have the mountain on one side going straight up and the cliff drop off on the other side. It is paved but only 14' wide. There are no places to pull over or turn around.
When we reached the bottom a couple miles from Clifton we were stopped by a state trooper and asked if we passed a state highway truck with two men in it and we told them no, we had not seen any vehicles on the way down. It took us four hours to come down and the state truck had left to go up two hours before, but never reached the top. Never did find out what happened to the state truck.
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Les Curren
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12/15/11 02:32pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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1999 Gulfstream Sun Voyager 31-1/2' Diesel Pusher
This is for people who own one or have owned one. Please tell me about it's good points and bad points. Rubber roof or fiberglass roof? Miles per gallon and at what speed on highway?
Looking to buy one and hoping it is a good coach. But need info from owners or past owners. Anything you have will help. Thanks.
Please do not move this to any other forum.
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Les Curren
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12/14/11 09:29am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Lipitor Users
Is $4.00 a month all you pay plus the Lipitor card or do you need prescription insurance as well?
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Les Curren
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12/09/11 09:38pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Social Security Cards Now Required to buy with a check?
I think that posibly, that may have been the law at one time, however the people at SS now say it is not a violation to ask for you to give your SS'n. It's kind of a catch 22 situation. Some one may ask but not require your SS'n. But if you refuse they can denie your request.
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Les Curren
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12/07/11 11:51am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Social Security Cards Now Required to buy with a check?
The future is to allow big business to gather information on you and there by create a file on you. The clever boys just use that info to steal from you.
I just can not understand some of you people. Your minds seem to run in devious ways to solve the problem rather than eliminating the problem.
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Les Curren
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12/07/11 08:46am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Social Security Cards Now Required to buy with a check?
Well it's not in my nature to become a criminal in order to fool a criminal.
But this is getting off of the posts subject matter.
Corporations like Walmart who sometimes feel they are above the law and deserve special treatment, need to be made aware that some of us are not going to stand still while they subvert the law that protects us all. If they have a problem with people who write bad checks than go after them and put them in prison instead of making all the honest people pay the bill.
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Les Curren
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12/06/11 09:39pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Social Security Cards Now Required to buy with a check?
I few of you said I should have talked to the store manager or the district manager. Well I see no advantage in talking to the person who sets the policy in motion. It's kind of like asking a thief if he stole something from you.
I don't just go to the locals I have a practice of talking to the main office. If they say it's not corporate policy than I ask them to straighten out there employees. If they say it is corporate policy I give them my view on the subject and if they can't bring themseves to correct bad policy than I take my views to the public.
You are the public. You are the ones who make it possible for business's to stay in business. Don't think for one minute that your opinion doesn't count.
Boycott there stores and tell them why.
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Les Curren
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12/06/11 02:42pm |
Around the Campfire
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Social Security Cards Now Required to buy with a check?
This topic has been moved to another forum.
You can read it here: 25621269
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Les Curren
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12/06/11 12:36pm |
Snowbirds
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Social Security Cards Now Required to buy with a check?
A few days ago I sold a shotgun barrel to a person in another town. He sent me a Money Gram issued by Walmart. When I tried to cash it at a Walmart they required photo id. No problem. But they also required my Social Security number. It didn't happen and won't either.
Now my wife when buying groceries from Kroger stores and writing a personal check for the price of the groceries. no extra cash requested. Is being required to give them her social security number.
Also not going to happen.
In this day of identity theft a person needs to protect their identity from thieves, and especially when a SS number does nothing to prove who you are. They don't require that a person produce a card just a SS number.
Of coarse the stores say they will not make that number available to any other party. How stupid can they be, or how stupid do they think the public is. It's pretty much common knowledge that certain people hire into large corporations just to steal personal info to sell to other thieves.
Myself and my family and friends are going to boyctt corporations who employ this unnessasary requirement to buy by check and I ask others to do as well. This sort of practice has to be shutdown immediatly.
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Les Curren
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12/06/11 12:36pm |
Around the Campfire
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Gulfstream motor home owners.
Ok, from what I understand Gulfstream MH's come with either rubber or fiberglass roofs. What did yours come withand what year is yours.
If rubber have you had any issues with it?
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Les Curren
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12/06/11 09:20am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: POST REMOVED
Ok, this is a Sun Voyager 31' 1999 diesel pusher.
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Les Curren
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12/05/11 05:09pm |
Tech Issues
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POST REMOVED
Post removed from Tech Issues.
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Les Curren
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12/05/11 03:05pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Ok, We bought the WaterKing USA
Yeah well, filters will remove sticks leaves and such but I've been told that they will not remove chemicals or minerals and that is what people are up against traveling in the mountain west and the deserts of the southwest.
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Les Curren
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11/16/11 01:53pm |
General RVing Issues
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Ok, We bought the WaterKing USA
This topic has been moved to another forum.
You can read it here: 25572315
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Les Curren
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11/16/11 08:52am |
Full-time RVing
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Ok, We bought the WaterKing USA
We bought the Water King USA and had it installed. It is not perfect but the water is very drinkable. If it is left at room temperature it is comparable to bottled water. If chilled it is better tasting than bottled water.
The water we have had here coming out of the tap is in no way drinkable. We are near the Colorado River on the Arizona side and the water company I believe does not filter the water from the river or maybe just does not soften it. But after installing the WaterKing USA. The water has become very drinkable and no longer leaves a white residue. I beleive to be calcium and magnesium.
The total cost was $367. And I would recomend it.
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Les Curren
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11/16/11 08:52am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Stabilizing a fifth wheel
Ok, since it looks like I am not going to get my question answered pro or con. I think I will go with my own idea of just using four scissor jacks along with the front electric jacks. The way I look at it, is, if the Alfa is not resting on the twin axle spring system, than it should be stabilized.
I looked at that system that uses scissor jacks and tubes and as far as I can see it looks to me like they are asking $298 for about $10 worth of electric coduit. And I have my doubts about whether the conduit tubes do anything at all in this case. Looks like just another RV ripoff.
By the way I went to a wrecking yard and bought four unused scissor jacks that I took out of wrecked Chevy Astro vans. They cost me $5 each.
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Les Curren
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10/16/11 01:59pm |
Full-time RVing
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