CornerStoreComics and Credit Card Exposure.

[GuruAskew]

I liked CSC/AT. I gave them a second chance.

That said, I can't believe the people who are jumping through hoops to find safe ways to pay them.

When they were safe I was happy to support them. I won't support them anymore and I can't believe there are people still willing to fork their money over to them.

People act like this is some sort of epidemic but truth is, I've been ordering stuff online for over a decade and I've never had problems. My card got flagged during that Heartland scare a few months ago but I never actually had any fraudulent charges. That was a case of a large number of cards potentially compromised. Very few people actually got hit.

We know CSC/AT compromised our cards TWICE. It's nice to think about giving them the benefit of the doubt and it was also nice thinking the whole thing really did teach them a lesson resulting in great security (yeah, right) but the fact is, there are other stores that don't give a bunch of criminals access to your money.

Furthermore, these people have access to our addresses, phone numbers, email addresses etc. Some of us have received herbal supplements and fraudulent memberships and magazine subscriptions to our addresses. Even if you're paying them with a "safe" way you're still forking over information that could be pretty dangerous in the wrong hands.

As it stands the only way you can be "safe" purchasing from CSC/AT is to go in to the store in person and pay cash, and again, when you have to essentially keep your guard up when dealing with a company guess what? They don't deserve your business.

They ran a safe operation for several years, they had good prices, good customer service and a good selection of product but c'mon guys, close the book. You shouldn't have to prepare for a full-scale financial meltdown when you order from someone when there are a bunch of comparable stores online that don't have these problems. Could they have them in the future? Sure, but THAT is when "benefit of the doubt" comes in.

As for cancellation fees, I say good luck trying to charge me a cancellation fee on the payment information they have since it's all been canceled due to their security problems.

 

[xenofreak]

Maybe they'll do another free shipping or 20% off sale soon to keep people ordering. I'll keep ordering using paypal.

 

[LOTRFan]

I liked CSC/AT. I gave them a second chance.

That said, I can't believe the people who are jumping through hoops to find safe ways to pay them.

When they were safe I was happy to support them. I won't support them anymore and I can't believe there are people still willing to fork their money over to them.

People act like this is some sort of epidemic but truth is, I've been ordering stuff online for over a decade and I've never had problems. My card got flagged during that Heartland scare a few months ago but I never actually had any fraudulent charges. That was a case of a large number of cards potentially compromised. Very few people actually got hit.

We know CSC/AT compromised our cards TWICE. It's nice to think about giving them the benefit of the doubt and it was also nice thinking the whole thing really did teach them a lesson resulting in great security (yeah, right) but the fact is, there are other stores that don't give a bunch of criminals access to your money.

Furthermore, these people have access to our addresses, phone numbers, email addresses etc. Some of us have received herbal supplements and fraudulent memberships and magazine subscriptions to our addresses. Even if you're paying them with a "safe" way you're still forking over information that could be pretty dangerous in the wrong hands.

As it stands the only way you can be "safe" purchasing from CSC/AT is to go in to the store in person and pay cash, and again, when you have to essentially keep your guard up when dealing with a company guess what? They don't deserve your business.

They ran a safe operation for several years, they had good prices, good customer service and a good selection of product but c'mon guys, close the book. You shouldn't have to prepare for a full-scale financial meltdown when you order from someone when there are a bunch of comparable stores online that don't have these problems. Could they have them in the future? Sure, but THAT is when "benefit of the doubt" comes in.

As for cancellation fees, I say good luck trying to charge me a cancellation fee on the payment information they have since it's all been canceled due to their security problems.

Nothing "askew" here

 

[mkcc30]

I cancelled some orders and told them I did not expect to be charged cancellation fees due to the recent fraud problems. They were nice about it and DID NOT charge me a dime.

 

[JediJones]

Mine was a Visa too, but I had zero problems whatsoever. Of course I caught mine within an hour or two of the charges so none of them had actually gone through. Visa canceled the charges on their end but told me to contact the sites where the card was used since they could refund my card quicker than Visa could. I never had to sign or deal with Visa again after my first phone call since all of the charges never got past the pending stage.

I don't know if Visa's in control of the process as much as each individual bank. Pretty sure Visa and Mastercard are mainly brand names that are licensed out to different banks. The banks are the ones that lend the money to you so they are probably the ones concerned about the fraud. Visa of course may have policies the banks have to follow.

I wish my experience on my Merrill Lynch Visa was as good as yours. I caught the charges within minutes but the bank never properly closed the card. They sent me a new card and new number but kept letting the old card rack up charges for weeks. I couldn't even see that info on my online statement anymore since they changed the number over and only found out once I started receiving things in the mail. About 20 different items, some of which were subscriptions where the companies had affiliates who then signed me up for THEIR additional subscriptions.

Every fraud rep I talked to gave me inconsistent info, including one who refused to refund the new fraudulent charges because he said they were stuff I had signed up for and then hung up on me. The next rep I got when I called back did refund all the charges. I had to make them list off every company I had a fraudulent charge with along with their contact info and write it down on paper myself because the info was not provided online anymore. I called each one and asked for the refunds myself, even though I didn't get to keep any of that money, Visa just took back the credit they had given me once they saw the refunds coming in. But I had to do it to make sure I was unsubscribed from all these offers and wouldn't receive any new items or bills in the mail. Most of them gave me no indication my card company had contacted them before, although about 2 said they had already marked the charge as fraudulent so it's possible the card company contacted some of them.

To this day I receive scam offers in the mail the likes of which I have never seen before this fraud happened. I got a realistic-looking check for $4000 saying I had won a lottery and multiple work-from-home offers with just pages and pages of nonsense in them. It's like the stuff you get in your e-mail spam box but it actually comes to the house now.

 

[Buttmunch]

Man that sounds terrible, especially that they didn't cancel the card and just let it rack up more charges. I hope you filed a complaint because that is pathetic, maybe even criminal. I can't believe they expected you to do all that work to get refunded when it was THEIR fault.

 

[xenofreak]

CORNERSTORE COMICS IS TO BLAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well I had believed that my recent credit card fraud activity was unrelated to CSC because I thought I had used Paypal on my last order. I received my new replacement credit card today and called in to register it. The fraud was attempted with one of the secure numbers (a virtual card #), which I had previously used online. I asked them if they could tell me which secure number was compromised and for what store I actually use the secure number for. She said the number which was stolen was the one that I used for "CORNERSTORE COSMETICS!!!!" Her mistake, but we all know what she meant.

It turns out that I did use my credit card with a secure number at CSC in April 2009. The stolen number was one which was only used at CSC and is only valid for one store. Someone tried to use the number I used at CSC to shop at "Fashionbug.com" and "Bigfish.com" among many others on June 1.

I can't believe that they let this happen twice!!! I got hit both times. I was seriously thinking about giving up online shopping for good since I got hit twice in a matter of months. I am relieved though because now I know 100% for sure where my info is being stolen from. No speculation. My info was stolen because of CSC. As others have mentioned, I too have been shopping online for over 10 years and never once had an incident until this CSC fiasco.

 

[abake]

Ok, that's pretty damning evidence right there.

 

[Lee in MI]

CORNERSTORE COMICS IS TO BLAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well I had believed that my recent credit card fraud activity was unrelated to CSC because I thought I had used Paypal on my last order. I received my new replacement credit card today and called in to register it. The fraud was attempted with one of the secure numbers (a virtual card #), which I had previously used online. I asked them if they could tell me which secure number was compromised and for what store I actually use the secure number for. She said the number which was stolen was the one that I used for "CORNERSTORE COSMETICS!!!!" Her mistake, but we all know what she meant.

It turns out that I did use my credit card with a secure number at CSC in April 2009. The stolen number was one which was only used at CSC and is only valid for one store. Someone tried to use the number I used at CSC to shop at "Fashionbug.com" and "Bigfish.com" among many others on June 1.

I can't believe that they let this happen twice!!! I got hit both times. I was seriously thinking about giving up online shopping for good since I got hit twice in a matter of months. I am relieved though because now I know 100% for sure where my info is being stolen from. No speculation. My info was stolen because of CSC. As others have mentioned, I too have been shopping online for over 10 years and never once had an incident until this CSC fiasco.

I've been trying to say this since the beginning of this thread. Ended up getting into a pissing match with a guy on here trying to defend CSC and earned myself a demerit (or naughty point or whatever they are calling em). I hope this post serves as irrefutable evidence of this fact. There are literally HUNDREDS of post from several different sites of guys getting tagged once they placed orders with CSC.

I've said it once and I'll say it again, the guys at CSC are really cool but this predicament they have gotten themselves into with little to no outreach to their customers is cause to walk away.

 

[kl241]

I've been trying to say this since the beginning of this thread. Ended up getting into a pissing match with a guy on here trying to defend CSC and earned myself a demerit (or naughty point or whatever they are calling em). I hope this post serves as irrefutable evidence of this fact. There are literally HUNDREDS of post from several different sites of guys getting tagged once they placed orders with CSC.

I've said it once and I'll say it again, the guys at CSC are really cool but this predicament they have gotten themselves into with little to no outreach to their customers is cause to walk away.

What's hilarious is that Cornerstorecomics is a registered user on this board and posts in the dealers section and has yet to chime in and tell their side of the story. Perhaps their lawyers are telling them to keep quiet about it.

 

[GDZILLA95]

CORNERSTORE COMICS IS TO BLAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well I had believed that my recent credit card fraud activity was unrelated to CSC because I thought I had used Paypal on my last order. I received my new replacement credit card today and called in to register it. The fraud was attempted with one of the secure numbers (a virtual card #), which I had previously used online. I asked them if they could tell me which secure number was compromised and for what store I actually use the secure number for. She said the number which was stolen was the one that I used for "CORNERSTORE COSMETICS!!!!" Her mistake, but we all know what she meant.

It turns out that I did use my credit card with a secure number at CSC in April 2009. The stolen number was one which was only used at CSC and is only valid for one store. Someone tried to use the number I used at CSC to shop at "Fashionbug.com" and "Bigfish.com" among many others on June 1.

I can't believe that they let this happen twice!!! I got hit both times. I was seriously thinking about giving up online shopping for good since I got hit twice in a matter of months. I am relieved though because now I know 100% for sure where my info is being stolen from. No speculation. My info was stolen because of CSC. As others have mentioned, I too have been shopping online for over 10 years and never once had an incident until this CSC fiasco.

You know, my "new" Mastercard got comprimised on 06-05-09. It looks like I got hit both times also. Needless to say, I'm very pissed about this. The credit card co. caught it, so the punk was unable to purchase anything with it, but now I'm concerned that Sideshow might cancel my Celtic Bio order because this card had to be cancelled also.
When it happened the first time, I felt like CSC only shared about 20% of the blame. Now I feel that they are 100% at fault. So, I'm gonna have to cancel my remaining orders with them.

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
I hate a bunch of Drama....................

 

[pjam]

They just got more in stock, and ship same day from Cali so I just ordered Dutch over the phone with them. Should get him tomorrow from Anaheim I hope.

If there are any problems (which I doubt with phone order) I'll just have my CC Co take care of it.

 

[abake]

I contacted CSC yesterday to have all my outstanding pre-orders cancelled citing the renewed cases of cc info theft discussed in this thread and in other boards.
They were very helpful and kind, and there will be no canceling fees charged. I hope they get their online act together, they've been a good shop with very good service and prices.

 

[Matt S]

I contacted CSC yesterday to have all my outstanding pre-orders cancelled citing the renewed cases of cc info theft discussed in this thread and in other boards.
They were very helpful and kind, and there will be no canceling fees charged. I hope they get their online act together, they've been a good shop with very good service and prices.

Did they have anything to say? any acknowledgement on the situation?

 

[abake]

No, they just stated that they were sorry for any inconveniences and understood my reasons.

 

[mkcc30]

No, they just stated that they were sorry for any inconveniences and understood my reasons.

I was told the same thing when I cancelled all my outstanding pre-orders.

 

[EndIessRAlN]

CORNERSTORE COMICS IS TO BLAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well I had believed that my recent credit card fraud activity was unrelated to CSC because I thought I had used Paypal on my last order. I received my new replacement credit card today and called in to register it. The fraud was attempted with one of the secure numbers (a virtual card #), which I had previously used online. I asked them if they could tell me which secure number was compromised and for what store I actually use the secure number for. She said the number which was stolen was the one that I used for "CORNERSTORE COSMETICS!!!!" Her mistake, but we all know what she meant.

It turns out that I did use my credit card with a secure number at CSC in April 2009. The stolen number was one which was only used at CSC and is only valid for one store. Someone tried to use the number I used at CSC to shop at "Fashionbug.com" and "Bigfish.com" among many others on June 1.

I can't believe that they let this happen twice!!! I got hit both times. I was seriously thinking about giving up online shopping for good since I got hit twice in a matter of months. I am relieved though because now I know 100% for sure where my info is being stolen from. No speculation. My info was stolen because of CSC. As others have mentioned, I too have been shopping online for over 10 years and never once had an incident until this CSC fiasco.

After reading all of that, I'm kinda glad I haven't ordered from CSC for awhile. And honestly with all this going on, I doubt I will be able to trust them again with my credit. That's just too bad because they're really nice people. But they really should have given 110% to make sure the same thing wouldn't happen again. I'll just order all my HT stuff from Joe and a local dealer. Safest way is to pick up and pay cash.

Good luck to everyone out there that's having problems. Hope it all gets solved.

 

[Matt S]

I decided to play it safe and cancel my remaining 4 orders or so - just dont want any more issues

 

[Gruson]

I think I am ok...nothing bad....not yet anyway. Shame because they are great to order from.

 

[xenofreak]

I would still feel safe ordering with them via paypal. It's just a matter of whether or not I want to give them my business. They usually do have some of the best prices. I usually can't resist when they do a sale!