Tedious job

My new credit card arrived from HSBC today, at the due date.

So activating the card is straightforward enough - provided you do online - but telling the various people who want to know about this card is more of a pain, not least because you have to remember who they all are.

I remembered about DART - the tunnel people - because they thought to send me a reminder a few weeks ago. The catch was that I completed failed to update my details there, despite trying three times. I failed to find a straightforward 'update card details' button to press and it certainly did not like what I did try to do. And when I had completed my failure by sending them a message about it, it was quite unclear what my logon status was. And I failed to find a 'sign out' button. So good that they sent me a reminder, bad that I could not work their site.

On the up side, I find that ebay do not hold my credit card details at all, leaving all that sort of thing to PayPal, which, to be fair, they do own. I also find that PayPal were the only people who wanted to know the three digit security code printed on the back of the card. On the other hand, ebay France, on the strength of my buying some Maigret, seems to think that I have a penchant for what looked like pornographic fiction.

Justgiving did not hold my credit card details either, their modus operandi seeming to be to set up direct debits for each regular payment. But I failed to find out where to update one of those payments, it being my custom to ratchet things up slightly, each time I visit. Perhaps it was a long time since I last visited.