Posted on 07/15/2009 7:14:48 AM PDT by JoeProBono
MANCHESTER, N.H. - A New Hampshire man says he swiped his debit card at a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes and was charged over 23 quadrillion dollars.
Josh Muszynski (Moo-SIN'-ski) checked his account online a few hours later and saw the 17-digit number , a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars).
Muszynski says he spent two hours on the phone with Bank of America trying to sort out the string of numbers and the $15 overdraft fee.
Looks like the new Obama cigarette tax went into effect.
Those new taxes are getting steep...
One pack smokes? .85
Tax on one pack smokes? $23,148,855,308,184,499.15
Does the man make over $350,000?
Obama was probably just trying to bill him for his healthcare plan.
I’d have directly applied for a “too-big-to-fail” bailout...yessssirrrreeeeee. you betcha!
You know what I find so funny in this (and sad too.. a reflection of how far America has fallen) is that this guy had to ARGUE with Bank of America.
I mean how dumb is BofA. Where is our logic? Our Commonsense?
If I am a banker and I see a 23 Quardrillion dollar charge, why am I not doing anything to fix my bloody internal systems that even allowed it.
Also, why am I hassling the poor customer.
In fact if this guy has a magic credit card (AMEX BLACK) that allows a 23 Quadrillion dollar charge, I should be sending him a toaster oven.
After all the 2% commission that Visa makes (and shares with every bank) would be worth 460 TRILLION dollars
I think I’d contact the vendor and ask for a share of the overcharge in return for paying the overdraft fee, bankruptcy filing and other consequences of the Bank of America error. :-)
Maybe because you’re a bank employee making $14/hr, and don’t really care?
Not surprising....my wife used (note that word) to have a BoA credit card, and they were absolutely the worst, non-thinking idiots when it came to fixing obvious errors.
Just a taste of things to come.
Bingo.
The $23 Quadrillion number alone should have resulted in people getting fired... at the Bank itself AND at the credit-card company.
That the bank hassled him over something that was obviously an error is simply disgraceful.
Does this man have a workable case to file a lawsuit?
California can pay Bank of America with IOU’s. Maybe this guy could write up an IOU for 23 quadrillion dollars.
Most of the cost was taxes too....
If you’re not the Chief Customer Relations Officer of a billion $ Multinational...
you outta be
Maybe they ought to consider,
"Maybe because you’re a bank employee making $14/hr, and don’t really care? Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ." (Colossians 3:23-24)
If there weren't so many godless fruitcakes in this country, maybe we'd actually be happy and productive, instead of unhappy and lazy.
I don’t think I’d be using a debit card again!
This is a fundamental distinction between debit cards and credit cards that many people simply do not understand. By statute, had this been a credit card, all this guy would have to do is notify the credit card company that he was disputing the charge, and send in whatever documentation he had. Then the vendor has to prove to the bank that the charge is legitimate.
With a debit card, this statutory protection does not apply (statute passed long before debit cards were created), his money is gone, his linked account is overdrawn (with whatever other ripple effects that has to keep him hopping), and he has to beg the bank to do the right thing. And we all know how warm-hearted and customer-oriented the Obama TARP banks are, don't we?
The Bank of Obama's got him covered (may take more than 1 check).
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