I never thought of that on a debit card. Its not that big deal on a credit card, but losing your checking account money would be a major pain.
1 posted on
03/28/2006 10:02:25 AM PST by
Abathar
To: Abathar
That's why if you use a debit card you keep in the account only the money you are willing to spend on it, and keep the rest of your money in another account.
2 posted on
03/28/2006 10:04:11 AM PST by
thoughtomator
(Pacifism is objectively pro-terrorist; Amnesty for illegals is objectively anti-American)
To: Abathar
That is the problem with checkers who can't do decimals.
3 posted on
03/28/2006 10:04:55 AM PST by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
To: Abathar
4 posted on
03/28/2006 10:05:59 AM PST by
fredhead
(Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish....and he'll fish for a lifetime)
To: Abathar
Something is odd here. . . most debit cards have a daily limit, typically $1000.00. . .
5 posted on
03/28/2006 10:07:52 AM PST by
Salgak
(Acme Lasers presents: The Energizer Border: I dare you to try and cross it. . .)
To: Abathar
This kind of thing happens occasionally. I remember one incident where a cashier entered in a social security number as the value of a check. A friend of mine did have a big hassle with a bank; they gave her starter checks for a different account than she opened. All the checks bounced as her pay continued to be deposited into her real account. What amazed me though is the bank drug their feet on taking responsibility for the mix-up and paying the bounced check fees.
6 posted on
03/28/2006 10:09:42 AM PST by
Ma3lst0rm
(Iraq is not a failure. The Media is a failure.)
To: Abathar
They must have wanted fries with that.
7 posted on
03/28/2006 10:10:52 AM PST by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: Abathar
Same thing happened to me a few years back at a Towers Records store.Some creature with about 30 piercings and 20 tattoos (it *was* Boston,after all) rang up my $14 sale as $14,000.
To: Abathar
Wow. Where's the beef? bwahahahahahaha!
To: Abathar
Its not that big deal on a credit card, but losing your checking account money would be a major pain. Right. I've yet to see any reason to use a debit card rather than a credit card.
To: Abathar
I thought this was going to be a Michael Moore goes to lunch story.
13 posted on
03/28/2006 10:13:57 AM PST by
Millee
(Don't make me get out my voodoo doll out!)
To: Abathar
I've had a ton of credit cards but never a debit card. I don't see the sense of them. And I don't anticipate ever having one. What advantages are there? I see none.
16 posted on
03/28/2006 10:15:48 AM PST by
RichardW
To: Abathar
The four burgers came to $4.33. The cashier entered the charge on George Beane's debit card, then mistakenly punched in the numbers again without erasing the original ones. That brought the bill to $4,334.33.
The electronic charge drained a checking account and left Beane and his wife wondering how they'd pay their mortgage.
That just means that George was an idiot that didn't check his receipt.
22 posted on
03/28/2006 10:19:02 AM PST by
Centurion2000
(Islam's true face: http://makeashorterlink.com/?J169127BC)
To: Abathar
Think twice before you hand your plastic to the end result of the NEA's "Reverse Education" project.
23 posted on
03/28/2006 10:19:29 AM PST by
capt. norm
(If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.)
To: Abathar
$4334.33 for one meal at Burger King? Sounds about right to me!
28 posted on
03/28/2006 10:26:26 AM PST by
walford
(http://the-big-pic.org)
To: Abathar
Debit cards are for people who don't care... :^)
37 posted on
03/28/2006 11:00:59 AM PST by
Tarpon
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