Sonia J.
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Boycott Loves Travel Centers
Today, we posted a YouTube video calling for a Boycott of Loves. The reason has to do with absolute greed, and I'll briefly explain here. Whenever a consumer uses a gas dispenser (pump) at LOVES, an authorization hold is placed on the consumer credit or debit account. The standard for LOVES is to authorize $175.00. Hence, if your sale is $10, $20, or $30, you have now just paid LOVES, at least temporarily, $175. Your financial institution will block this amount indefinitely until LOVES releases the hold authorization. In all other cases, such as Travel Centers of America, for example, once the sale is completed, the $175 authorization is dropped, and your availability to your cash order credit is restored. Usually, within seconds. In our case, several authorizations were made with over 3 days, and LOVES has refused to release the holds ($1,000), knowing it has successfully collected on its sale. You can not access your funds until LOVES says so, and in their case, it takes 5-10 days, where they hold your money, depriving you of access. It doesn't have to be this way. The instant release of authorization costs is nearly nothing and is nominal compared to the boycott ramifications. Loves has been made aware by its consumers repeatedly over the past decade, and the idmsue even came up in board minutes in 2016 & 2020. It is time to hit them share it matters. BOYCOTT. There is a video we hope going viral on YouTube.


