Jay On The Go

The other day a friend forwarded a Craig's List ad to me because she knows that we love outdoors and when the weather is nice we often drive to New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine.  The ad was seeking couples to provide feedback on a resort in the White Mountains and for the effort you got to stay for free for two nights.  It seemed like something I could grab even though I am always very skeptical of freebies because there is always a catch.  So I called the number, talked to a wonderful man, who told me that we needed to listen to a 90-minute presentation and tour of the resort for timeshares and the rest of the time we could simply enjoy ourselves.  Once we got back, we were expected to answer an online survey to help them develop a marketing plan for the resort. At that point, he wanted my credit card to confirm my reservation and I told him that I don't do that to someone who could be a criminal.  I told him that he should arrange for the resort to send me a confirmation em

So I wrote previously what a pain it was to use my FastLane transponder on a rental car .  However, since I had nothing wrong and trusted the system, I thought everything will work out.  In fact, the customer service agent told me that since out-of-state transactions take some time to go through when the machine cannot read the transponder well, I should simply let the rental car on my Fast Lane account for a few days. I did not think too much about it; after all the advice was coming from the EZPass agent.  Then, I got a little busy and forgot about it, but two weeks later when I went to check, along with my relief that all transactions had gone through, I was shocked to notice that another renter of that car was abusing the fact the rental car was listed on my account.  So this is how it works.  If you go through the FastLane exit and the reader finds no transponder, it looks for the license plate in the system and then simply bills the account in which it is listed.  I would have