If you were to look at my most recent credit card statement, you would think I had tried to recreate that old Tom Green sketch where he goes to a Taco Bell drive-thru and orders enough burritos to fill the convertible he's driving. I was shocked to find an erroneous charge of $96.30 from my local Taco Bell. Now that's a lot of tacos! There was a second (and accurate) charge on the date in question for $9.30, so I'm guessing the cashier punched in the incorrect total first, tried to cancel the transaction, but pressed the wrong key. I've already called the store and it looks like they will be posting a credit to my account tomorrow.
I've been a big supporter of all the places that let you pay by credit card these days. It's a lot more convenient than carrying cash around and fumbling for pocket change at the register. However, I've never accidentally forked over an extra hundred bucks when paying with cash. But, not to worry...I won't change my preferred payment method over this. I've been using credit cards for a long time, and I can't recall any other time I've had something like this happen. I'll just be a little extra vigilant in reading over my statements each month in the future.
Anyone else have a similar experience in the past?
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We've had a few double billings, but the only faux pax like you described involved a check and a misplaced decimal point. It took them a few seconds to relieve us of a few hundred dollars, but weeks to put it back. And we had just moved to Virginia and weren't getting paid yet, so this was a big deal!
Stuff like this is why Michelle balances the checkbook to the penny every week or so. We also pay all of our bills the old fashioned way to avoid mispayments or missed payments.
I had Northwest charge me twice for a nearly $300 plane ticket. Of course this happened at the same time Connecticut decided to send me a property tax bill even though I wasn't living there anymore, and work decided to take out some "extra taxes" from my paycheck, which amounted to $700. Needless to say, not the best timing.
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