The list of places one "autopays" (recurring payments) is a new one, to me. Although not all of my payments are monthly or on a regular schedule. I had to rep

The list of places one "autopays" (recurring payments) is a new one, to me. Although not all of my payments are monthly or on a regular schedule. I had to replace a card (at my initiation) a few years ago. The card was overnighted, but I still had to change a number of registrations using it. For $5 or $10 somewhere, I sometimes decide the risk of such a hassle isn't worth it. As various vendors have had demonstrated what I always, based upon personal experience, wondered about: Poor security. As that has grown in reporting in the last couple of years, I've continued to tighten up on where I'll use a card. Some further years back, there was a burgeoning problem with "carbons" in the old mechanical swipe mechanisms. Many places didn't dispose of them properly, leading to dumpster diving -- or their setting aside by a malicious employee. If you thought the place felt "dodgey", you paid in cash. Plus ca change... And as I also mentioned, I feel not just a lack of desire to hand that percentage over to some big issuer / payment processor combine, but an outright obligation not to. "Big finance" is already "out of control", and I think we have an obligation not to feed it and so empower it further. Not the entrenched players who have so recently and persistently demonstrated their own corrupt and malicious nature. P.S. While I'm at it, I'll also mention that I don't want to participate further in data mining that I find is increasingly antagonistic to the card holder's best interests. Buy the wrong stuff, go to the wrong places, etc., and the next thing you know, e.g. your insurance rates may increase. You might even have employment problems. Who knows? Data mining is still in its "Wild West" phase. So far -- so far as I know -- serial numbers on $5's and $10's are not being tracked. (I'm unsure about $20's. $50's and $100's, probably soon if not already.)