Comments on: Hotel shows customer the door after he refuses to show ID — can it do that?

By: Loss Prevention

Loss Prevention — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:41:00 +0000

Of course all the complainers are customers and not merchants why:

Enough
with your worry of getting targeted with advertisements. All Merchants
are trying to do is protect their assets from being stolen. The credit
card company doesn’t pay when you dispute an item that was purchased
illegally on your card. They do what is called in the industry a
“CHARGE BACK” to the merchant who has to eat the cost of the theft.
Thus causing the merchant to charge more for their products or
services. Yes that’s right the complaining consumer, YOU, are the
loser. Next time, just get off your soap box and put your thumb over
your address and just let them see what they need to protect YOU and
THEM from theft: the picture to make sure it matches you standing in
front of them and the name on the Picture ID matches the credit card you
are using. Wow what a hardship….

Now do you understand why the credit card companies don’t require the merchants to check ID’s? Because they don’t pick up the tab! Wow sounds similar to the fat cats that got away with the mortgage bailout….OH WAIT THEY ARE ONE IN THE SAME. WAKE UP PEOPLE! WOW BUILD A BRIDGE SHOW YOUR ID AND GET OVER IT!

By: Loss Prevention

Loss Prevention — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:34:00 +0000

Of course all the complainers are customers and not merchants why:

Enough with your worry of getting targeted with advertisements. All Merchants are trying to do is protect their assets from being stolen. The credit card company doesn’t pay when you dispute an item that was purchased illegally on your card. They do what is called in the industry a “CHARGE BACK” to the merchant who has to eat the cost of the theft. Thus causing the merchant to charge more for their products or services. Yes that’s right the complaining consumer, YOU, are the loser. Next time, just get off your soap box and put your thumb over your address and just let them see what they need to protect YOU and Them from theft: the picture to make sure it matches you standing in front of them and the name on the Picture ID matches the credit card you are using. Wow what a hardship….

WOW BUILD A BRIDGE SHOW YOUR ID AND GET OVER IT!

By: That1guydrew

That1guydrew — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:31:00 +0000

I work for a hotel and I totally agree with the Manager. We have a lot of “Locals” people who live in the area that just want a room to usually do things that are frowned upon by the law. We require all guests to show us their id so that we can for sure know that it is them. We also put their mailing address and phone number in the system. And if they pay cash, we require an id so we can make a copy. We just had a guest check in last week and the Front Desk agent didnt make a copy of id. Well needless to say they damaged the room and the police told us, you have no copy of their id, we cant do anything for you.

By: Missella916

Missella916 — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:31:00 +0000

I am a manager for a hotel, and we do require id upon checkin, first for security purposes ( we need to know who is occupying the room) second, if any damages occur while someone is utilizing the room we can collect from the loss. Just like you need an id to lease/rent anything, the same standards should be set nationwide to require id. I mean doesnt it seem logical?

By: Philipinesnation123

Philipinesnation123 — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:58:00 +0000

can i see the picture of the id before go inside in the hotel….

By: Rock Star Destroys Hotel Room

Rock Star Destroys Hotel Room — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:25:00 +0000

Of course the hotel should ask for ID. Do you know how many selfish people will destroy other peoples property and happily sneak out the door.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 03 May 2011 01:38:00 +0000

I work for a hotel and if a guest comes in and wants to pay cash, we are required to get a copy of their ID and keep it with their registration or a copy of a credit card with their name on it for incidentals. But even if they keep a copy of their credit card on file, they are still required to show their id. If they choose to have a copy of their ID on file, it is so we know the address is valid and they can be billed for the room or we can take them to court for damages to the room.

By: Helio

Helio — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:11:44 +0000

It’s interesting to see how people acts in different countries. In my country, you need to show your ID to access almost any commercial building or hotel. Ah, in several places they took a picture too.

(oddly enough, almost every elevator at big cities has cameras inside…)

By: Anthony Hewetson

Anthony Hewetson — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:11:27 +0000

One of my favorite series of book is the Jack Reacher
series. the protagonist, for the first seven or eight books,
carried no ID and paid for hotel rooms with cash. About the ninth
novel or so he started carrying ID as even cash payments to hotels
entailed showing a picture ID. Good research on the part of the
British novelist who writes the series … and I think the whole ID
thing, right or wrong, has to do with post 9/11 paranoia. By the
by, I used to ride Greyhound all the time and never needed an ID.
That is no longer the case, evidently, as even paying with cash my
last two sets of tickets were released only upon my production of a
valid picture ID.

By: Friendly Hotel

Friendly Hotel — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:23:37 +0000

Actually checking I.D. is often important for emergency purposes. I’ve actually been at work when a guest passed out in his room and had he been under an assumed name, his family may not have been reached.

By: Montego Bay hotels

Montego Bay hotels — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:05:09 +0000

You been asked EVERY single time you have stayed somewhere?

By: John94

John94 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:07:30 +0000

By the time she came home she had nothing but contempt for her symbiotic American peers. ,

By: John62

John62 — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:47:28 +0000

I knew this was untrue: pressurized water had been chosen to power submarines because such reactors are compact and simple. ,

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:53:19 +0000

Haha!!! Thanks for the laugh Michael Archangel!!! I will just have to follow in your footsteps… Don’t be a jackass, and you won’t have problems!!! :)

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:23:16 +0000

Bob,

I bet you will be singing a different tune if someone next to you, or even in the same hotel/motel was able to rent a room w/ no I.D . and trashed your car, or broke into your room and stole something or assaulted you… They are not ‘controlling’ anything. They are PROTECTING you, and everyone else who happens to be staying there. Good luck trying to find another hotel who DOESN’T ask for I.D. I’ve been asked EVERY single time I’ve stayed somewhere. Hope that hotel that “appreciates” you will know who the assailant was that attacked you in the middle of the night….

“The real question is when are people going to stop corporations from controling our lives. Most ID theft occurs at point of sale.

I guess it comes down to this, I am the customer — it’s my way or I take my business elsewhere to someplace that appreciates me “