Originally Posted by
Nixx
I'm not positive, but I think merchants can't actually refuse to run my card if I refuse to show ID as long as I have the actual card, at least for Visa and Mastercard. Some will likely try, such as the store I used to work at, but as far as I know I can report them and they'll have to deal with the card company. I don't really want to go dig through all the legal information for merchants at the moment to make sure that's still a rule.
But yeah, they don't bother to check. Like Meijer, I can purchase $200 in whatever and they just want a signature. My signature looks like garbage and changes drastically every time, so it's not even useful, but it doesn't matter. They'll still take the card. You can sit here and act like ID is something you can't live without, but I mean there are people who literally don't have an ID of any kind who seem to be living just fine. I basically never use my ID. It just sits in my wallet in case I get pulled over for some reason. Even then, now that most of the officers have computers in their cars, it's not even necessarily a big deal without it. A lot of cops will cut you slack as long as you have a valid license when they look it up and are otherwise being polite.