[John O]

Off on another incident, I purchased some items recently from one store, that sells from 2 of it’s stores under different names. They cleared the checking account one day, all on one stores name, no problem there.

The next day the same charges, for the same amounts were ‘pending’ my checking account under the second store’s name. And the balance of those charges taken out of my account, even though they were ‘pending’ charges.

Debit card? When you use a paper check thee sorts of things never happen. You have the paper check as proof of payment.

(I have a problem with giving someone permission to go into my account and take money with me signing for each instance.)

[RockinRight]

Checks do provide more conclusive proof of payment.

However, since so many bounce these days, fewer places take them.