I have a lot of things to do, some more important than others. Since I can’t motivate myself to start anything, maybe listing them will help:
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Nik had an interesting experience with his debit card recently. He went downtown to pick up an amp that he had purchased before, and he also bought some strings. He paid for the strings with his debit card. Apparently, the machine at the store instructed the clerk to confiscate his card, as it thought it was stolen. He argued about that for a while, but there was nothing to do short of jumping the counter to get the card back, as I understand. So they asked if he had another way to pay for it, and he used the card for the other account, the one he got through Washington Mutual so he could use the ATM here. That went just fine, and he ended up with the strings. So he called his bank later that day, and learned that there was a temporary glitch in Visa’s computers that caused his card to come up that way. Either the card was already locked, or his bank locked it then. The bank will send him a new card in the mail. So this was the state of things when I first learned of the situation (that afternoon).<\/p>\n
At some point, in the next few days, he noticed that the initial charge had gone through, before the card was confiscated, and he had been double charged. He called the guitar shop, and the guy checked his records, and could not find a record of the first card having been charged. He then told Nik that “I bet your bank is trying to screw you.” If one stops and thinks about that, however, you realize that the bank is in trouble if anyone finds out that they are stealing money, and what is the motivation for a bank where he has his whole savings to steal $20 from his account?<\/p>\n
He called his bank back, and last I heard, they were planning on calling the guitar shop the next day and informing him that the charge had indeed gone through.<\/p>\n
I have no idea why I thought of this, as this actually happened about a month ago, and I haven’t yet asked Nik how it went. He got some mail from a bank the other day, though. I’ll have to ask him. <\/p>\n
All for now
\n–Nathan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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