In Reply to: Cooking Class Deposit over the Net posted by burracooka on Friday, 5. February 2010 at 14:13 Bali Time:
I was talked into doing exactly that by a group booking the other cooking school. They first wanted photocopies faxed of both side of my credit card plus passport and were just wanting to have these details to hold the booking. After much emailing back and forth I faxed just the front of the credit card (not back or passport) was assured details would be kept in a secure place. Well what happened was that I went on my holiday but didn't take that credit card. Did the cooking class which was great and paid as told directly to the school. On returning home I found over $500 basically all that was left on that card had been used. They were very cagey thinking I would take the card and not notice the money going out. They deducted the monies while I was in Bali (having asked my arrival and departure dates). So no do not do it - or as someone else has since recommended give them the card details (not photocopy)but change a couple of numbers around. Took me 8 weeks to get the money back from my bank. Good luck