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Aug 08Just another day at PVR
Image via Wikipedia My sob story with PVR just doesn’t seem to end. I know my blog is starting to look like a complaint box right now but hey am not the bothering type.
Location: PVR Bangalore
Me: Two tickets for XYZ movie
PVR: For xx:xx show?
Me: Yeah exactly
PVR: L10, L11 seats okay
Me: Perfect
PVR: So that would be Rs 300
Me: You accept card?
PVR: Sure we do,err it’s VISA right?
Me: Hmm nope Maestro, Cirrus
PVR: Sorry sir, we don’t accept
Me: But since when… hmm… never mind.. here is the money (good riddance)
Friend: Psst I think they read your blog.
Me: Thanks I couldn’t feel any better..
(now in mind)
Oh god why why.. in case they had to read my blog why that post.. couldn’t they read my auto-cribbing posts? sob sob
For those who are here for the first time: I had blogged earlier about how I was asked reveal my debit card PIN number while buying tickets there. I don’t know if it’s because of my post or not, they have stopped accepting Maestro cards (which require PIN number to be entered); they accept only VISA cards now!
PS: I guess I should stop giving myself too mcuh credit. May be they had some issue with Maestro after all 
August 21st, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Am I missing something? Is Visa signature-only and Master needed a pin? This is definitely a retrograde move in terms of security.
I read your post on PIN too. You need to inform your bank of these establishments and keep writing about it too. What ullus.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:05 pm
@Shefaly
You are right Visa is signature only while Maestro requires PIN number to be entered in the machine. Inform the bank? Hmm that’s something I haven’t done yet. Thanks for the advice!
August 21st, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Hain!!!!! The buggers don’t accept Visa card????? (Read that three times)
Quite strange in today’s time…..
BTW u can call all this “Credit Cards, Me N PVR, A long sour story”
August 21st, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Go on, Balu, take credit! Take it! You’ve earned it.
August 21st, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Yes Balu,
I had read your earlier post. Now you are scaring people into obedience. Quite a task master you are
I hope the movie was nice (300 Rs)
August 22nd, 2008 at 2:57 am
Crossword too doesn’t accept Maestro powered SBI Debit Card.I too had to face similar problems.
August 22nd, 2008 at 6:00 am
Yessss, thats your impact
And I am little shocked that you really haven’t yet informed corresponding bank yet. We expected more from you
August 22nd, 2008 at 6:30 am
Dude get a visa !
Maestro is a pain after all.
Now please don’t write about visa, and they would stop accepting visa as well.
August 22nd, 2008 at 6:40 am
@Smita
Err no they accept only Visa, you really want me to change the headline? that means I have to loging edit post change headline and save.. groan.. sorry yaar bohath mehnat karna padega
@liamdempsey
no no no.. I used a wrong word.. it should have been blame not credit!
@Katya
To be honest I don’t think I did it! :-0
@Reema
Really so this seems to be a problem wit maestro they better have a good reason for doing this then
@Suda
Yes yes expectations..
@Xylene
Dude get a visa or Dude geta life
I am shifting jobs and I heard my new employer has HDFC as salary account.. they have VISA debit
August 22nd, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Thats quite funny!!!
August 22nd, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Funny!
Me and a friend once ordered a full meal from the McD’s on Brigade Road and realised they don accept any card (dont know about now)…well, neither of us had cash on us…so, i waited for a while, while he went for cash
the burgers werent crisp by th time we ate it 
August 23rd, 2008 at 6:29 am
so the logical next step is writing movie reviews, and getting them not to run it beyond a weekend…. :p
August 23rd, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Hmmm… A friend of mine is the manager of PVR… At least, he was a few years ago.. I don’t know if he’s even alive by now! If he is, he’ll still be there! Want me to speak to him about this?
August 23rd, 2008 at 2:48 pm
@Nova
@Scorpia
Eeks thats bad.. but a used to eating soggy mc donalds food.. (we order food home.. by the time it reaches us it would be damp)
@Manu
Anyway most of the movies don’t run beyond the weekend! =P
@Nikhil
Nikhil to the rescue!
August 24th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
It seems we are moving back to the stone age!!!
August 24th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Call me The Pinkish-Blue Knight!
August 25th, 2008 at 7:45 am
haaaaaa … I think they read your blog
August 25th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
@Amit
LOL yeah
@Nikhil
Why pink and blue???????
@Dinu
Hope not!
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