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[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

One time my bill was $39. I misread it and paid 38. The next month I got a bill for $1. When I filled out the form $1 was less than the minimum that I could pay. $1.01 was okay though. I was wondering what would happen to the penny next month if that’s all I owed. Didn’t find out because I had a bill the next month too, but with a .01 credit.

[Subdeacon Joe]

I once got billed for $0.00.  I ignored it on the assumption that since I didn't owe anything I didn't need to do anything. 

 

WRONG!

 

The next month I received an Overdue bill that showed I still owed $0.00 plus $0.00 interest, please submit payment or my service would be canceled.   So I  wrote out a cheque in the amount of "Zero and  zero/100 Dollars."  The agency cashed it and the bank processed it.  This was in the days when banks would send the processed cheques back to you with your monthly statement.   I laughed when I saw it.

[Eyesa Horg]

19 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

I once got billed for $0.00.  I ignored it on the assumption that since I didn't owe anything I didn't need to do anything. 

 

WRONG!

 

The next month I received an Overdue bill that showed I still owed $0.00 plus $0.00 interest, please submit payment or my service would be canceled.   So I  wrote out a cheque in the amount of "Zero and  zero/100 Dollars."  The agency cashed it and the bank processed it.  This was in the days when banks would send the processed cheques back to you with your monthly statement.   I laughed when I saw it.

That's truly bizarre 🤯 

 

So probably cost 10¢ for the check itself. And they spent $20 to process it! Wonder how you'd handle that with cash!

Edited March 22 by Eyesa Horg

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, Eyesa Horg said:

That's truly bizarre 🤯 

 

So probably cost 10¢ for the check itself. And they spent $20 to process it! Wonder how you'd handle that with cash!

 

Hmmm....I  suppose I could have gone into their office,  handed the clerk the bill and a sawbuck and waited to get the change.  It would have been fun to watch them grind mental gears trying to figure it out. 

 

 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

I had an account that had outlived its usefulness and went to the bank to close it. “You have to send us a letter” I was told. I wrote a check for the balance and deposited it elsewhere. After a bit I got written notice of a ten dollars penalty for have a zero of negative balance. Every three days there would be another notice of another ten dollar penalty.  After  the balance got to -$110. The account was closed.

[Blackwater 53393]

It didn’t always work, but if you mailed in the fine for a traffic ticket and added a dollar to it, they’d send you a check for the dollar overage. In those days, they didn’t post the “conviction” until the bill was settled, so you stuck the check in your pocket or in the trash and avoided the points on your record and the hike in your insurance rate!

 

They figured it out after a time and the “conviction” went on your record immediately upon receipt of the guilty plea that accompanied the fine you paid.

 

 

Edited March 22 by Blackwater 53393

[Rye Miles #13621]

2 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

I once got billed for $0.00.  I ignored it on the assumption that since I didn't owe anything I didn't need to do anything. 

 

WRONG!

 

The next month I received an Overdue bill that showed I still owed $0.00 plus $0.00 interest, please submit payment or my service would be canceled.   So I  wrote out a cheque in the amount of "Zero and  zero/100 Dollars."  The agency cashed it and the bank processed it.  This was in the days when banks would send the processed cheques back to you with your monthly statement.   I laughed when I saw it.

Same thing happened to me, I think it was a utility bill, gas or light or water I don’t remember. It was weird filling out a check for 0.00 and writing zero dollars and 00/00 cents. 🙄

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

3 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

I once got billed for $0.00.  I ignored it on the assumption that since I didn't owe anything I didn't need to do anything. 

 

WRONG!

 

The next month I received an Overdue bill that showed I still owed $0.00 plus $0.00 interest, please submit payment or my service would be canceled.   So I  wrote out a cheque in the amount of "Zero and  zero/100 Dollars."  The agency cashed it and the bank processed it.  This was in the days when banks would send the processed cheques back to you with your monthly statement.   I laughed when I saw it.

My very first credit card bill (I was 17 and bought a jacket from J. C. Penny):  I paid it before I got the bill.  Bill came in for $00.00.  I laughed and threw it away.  Next month I got a notice that I was in arrears for $00.00.   This repeated for three more months.  Finally they threatened to take legal action and to put a negative statement in  my credit rating. 

 

I went the the manager of the store...a family friend...and asked how I could get this BS stopped.  He told me to send them a check for the full amount.  I did, for $00.00, and never heard any more about it.

 

That was in 1959, long before anyone knew about computers.  I destroyed the card and haven't done any business with JCP since.

[Rye Miles #13621]

38 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

My very first credit card bill (I was 17 and bought a jacket from J. C. Penny):  I paid it before I got the bill.  Bill came in for $00.00.  I laughed and threw it away.  Next month I got a notice that I was in arrears for $00.00.   This repeated for three more months.  Finally they threatened to take legal action and to put a negative statement in  my credit rating. 

 

I went the the manager of the store...a family friend...and asked how I could get this BS stopped.  He told me to send them a check for the full amount.  I did, for $00.00, and never heard any more about it.

 

That was in 1959, long before anyone knew about computers.  I destroyed the card and haven't done any business with JCP since.

I get it but JCP has some great sales on shirts, pants etc. I just bought a couple nice flannels on sale for $15.00 each just sayin’

[Eyesa Horg]

The JCP we had in the area closed a couple/few years ago.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

14 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

The JCP we had in the area closed a couple/few years ago.

I have no idea why the one here is still open.  I go through it from the parking lot to the insice of the mall ans most of the time you could fire grape shot in any direction and not hiy anyone.  No appears to be working there...you have to search them out...and there are few, if any, shoppers.

 

Been that way since we moved here 12 years ago.

 

Sears is gone, Sam's Club and the AAA moved 95 miles away down to Phoenix.

C. A. L. Ranch opened  a new store here ("Bigger and better than the one in Prescott" .....NOT!).

[Eyesa Horg]

All the UPS hubs we had to drop off packages have now turned into just distribution type centers. No customer access. There's several places, UPS & local business where you can drop general packages. Something special like a gun, I have no idea where you'd have to go. No where close for sure!