Credit card limit at gas station - new one on me!

I think it's a card fraud tick. Since gas prices have been raising so rapidly, people who steal cards tend to get copious amounts of gas on the stolen card, so they have a cut off. I do believe they should raise the cut-off with the gas prices, though.

YEP!! This just happened to my husband yesterday and I thought he was just yanking my chain. GO FIGURE!!

Crips, Dawn. That bites. I do not use a credit gas card, why would you concern yourself to much with the limit when it never cost you that much to fill up....75.00 for a tank of gas. Good grief are we going to survive this? I am thinking a horse might be in order. can't cost that much a day to feed one.

Yes, I do know what you are talking about because I saw this on a gas pumps this past weekend. It also states that you can start a new transaction after you have reached the $75 limit.

What the heck? NO I have never heard of such a thing, although one practice I do know of involves the credit card company or bank putting up to a $50 hold clearance when you use the card at a pump, and if you don't have that much available, even if you're only actually buying $15 of gas, it could decline. I don't know what the point is of this either but I know several people it happened to. Same thing at an Enterprise rental, my husband says they put a hold on an additional amount of money even if you're not really spending it. I use my debit card as a cc at the pump because I never carry cash and I can't leave little kids in the car while I run in to pay anyway, it is too hot and I'm paranoid. I wonder if it's different if you have a separate gas credit card, I don't but I've wondered from time to time if it might be a good idea.

Coincidence. Coincidence is the name for such occurences. But frankly speaking, I don't believe in coincidence. I believe that whatever happens to anyone each day is either designed by God to happen that way or the person played a great role in allowing it to happen. For instance if you had just carefully looked at your card before u got to the station, u would hav discovered that it is $75. Goodluck dawnald. by the way, what is your real name? I beleive we're friends in myLot right?

I think I've heard of that before. It was mostly when gas was a lot cheaper. I know that people who have motor homes used to complain about there being a limit when they went to pump gas. I've also heard something like the pumps won't go over $99, either. But, that's gotta change because when I go to the gas station, most people seem to be pumping at least $60 or $70 now just for an average car. And, I'm sure vehicles like trucks are pumping even more.

Consider yourself lucky! Our debit card only allows $35 to be pumped at one time. In the car I had that gave me 3/4 of a tank if I was filling it from empty so hat's not too bad but s/o's truck costs a full $100 more than that to fill from low!

I had totally forgotten about this until I came across this post but I now remember hearing on a financial tips show quite some time ago about how some credit cards have that kind of limit at gas stations, I have no idea why, but they said at the time that most people weren't aware of it because you never need to spend that much on gas! Welcome to 2008! Annie

No this is a new one on me.And if that is the case, more families may be getting into trouble at the pumps. I wonder why this would be, seems a strange practice to me. But then again spending 50-75$ or more to fill up is a new thing for all of us. Thanks for the heads up.