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Originally Posted by Captainclock
OK, I didn't realize you actually had to call this company to make an order, I think I would rather see if there's another place to get my parts from because I'm not too keen on using my credit card over the phone seeing as I don't know who I'm dealing with and for all I know they could steal my credit card info.
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Someone here in the forum may have the belts - a lot of us have belts from our own repairs - I have several hundred, along with a bunch of idler tires and pinch rollers - mine came from a place I used to work at, but I don't have your belts. Your Hitachi is the same as a GE 1VCR1012W - made for GE by Hitachi. I have a Video cross-ref for parts that lists that model...
Search using Google - you'll find dealers that list the belt(s) and allow you to place an online order. Just ensure you have an https connection first...
Credit card fraud (
was) more likely with "card present" transactions than over the phone or internet - fraudsters with a card could 100% clone a card and CVV, and charge up thousands before you even left the store. Now, with the chip cards, it's still easy to clone the magnetic strip, but in a year or so, all card readers will be chip-only, and eliminate the magnetic strip. In 2011, my parents used one of their cards in West Texas, while traveling, and it was cloned
in the restaurant and maxed out the same night. Visa fraud detection called them and verified their only use at the restaurant - that had some previous fraud/cloning detected there. A year later, Dateline NBC featured the restaurant in a sting pulled off by an FBI task force - 11 people arrested, restaurant seized, and several hundred cloned cards recovered - but only after $16.5 million was transferred to Ukraine.
I remember chip credit cards and phone cards in Europe in the mid-90s, but then, European banks have been all over security, unlike the US, where laws favored the banks over the consumer...