Cedit Card Statements
Why do the company names on Credit Card statements often bear little or no resemblance to the name of the place you purchased an item from? I realise that some companies trade under different names from their registered name, but if they are known as company XYZ and you get an item on your statement for company ABC, you end up spending ages racking your brain and referring to you diary to try to work out what on earth it could be. Often the transaction has been processed interstate which gives you even less idea where you purchased the item.
Today we got one listed as “SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WAT ADELAIDE”. In this case, the only thing of interest that might tell me what the purchase was has been abbreviated to “WAT”. It could be an abbreviation (for example, We Are Tossers Pty. Ltd.), but it this case it was short for “Water”. What on earth were these idiots thinking? Why not “SA WATER ADELAIDE” which is 100% clear?
Maybe we should just refuse to pay for items which are not clearly identified!
This scores Four Frowns 
March 9th, 2010 at 7:35 am
hear hear, that’s always bugged me too. from other examples it looks like they put the location field (if populated) to the far right of the string, regardless of the description length.
March 21st, 2010 at 9:15 pm
Heh - ring you bank and say its a fraudulent transaction
Yeah - agreed - I’ve been finding wierd stuff like this for years. Though I changed most utilities to direct debit (not credit card debit), and the information appears on the statement lovely and clear. Must be a credit card thing.