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I am having a fairly shitty day. You see, at the end of March, someone somehow got ahold of my debit/credit card number and made a hefty $100 charge at some sleazy pizza place in the U District at 3 a.m. I still have no idea how this happened, as I had my card in my possession and I don't have my debit card number written down or anything that might give someone access to it. Anyways, I had to go through a bunch of stupid bullshit with my bank, which included cancelling my current card and waiting a week and 1/2 to get a new one, and signing an affadavit that said I didn't make the charge, which I sent back the day after I got it. I called about a week and a half after I sent it to make sure they recieved it, and they said they did. I thought all was taken care of.
Fast forward to today and I am checking my bank account online and notice that my bank made some bullshit $100 "forced post ach" withdrawl. I was immediately pissed off and called them. After being bounced around to no fewer than 4 departments and waiting on hold for well over 45 minutes, it is revealed to me that the affadavit I signed was never in fact processed, even though when I called to double check that they recieved it I was told that it was. WTF. This pisses me off for a few reasons, one being being the overall absurdity of the situation, the second (and biggest) being that I just paid rent and all my bills and am flat fucking broke, so it's not really a good time for them to reinstate the charge over a month later because they are incompetant assholes and don't know how to process something after they allegedly recieve it. That is bullshit, through and through. I am getting totally and completely fucked up the ass because of their mistake and they couldn't care less and won't even awknowledge it by apologizing or anything. Long story short I had to recieve and fill out another affadavit via fax and then fax it back to them this afternoon, which of course I had to pay for. I will not let them screw me on this one. I am going to call them every single goddamn day to follow up until this is resolved, and make it as big of an ordeal for them as they have made it for me. Banks are so evil and such an unfortunate necessity. shit.
Other than that there is nothing to report. I got my hair did on Monday and I look totally different, it's burgandy red with chunky platinum blonde highlights and I love it. My bangs are almost all the way grown out, thank Christ. Bangs are up there on the list of shittiest hair decisions I have made. blah.
I am having a fairly shitty day. You see, at the end of March, someone somehow got ahold of my debit/credit card number and made a hefty $100 charge at some sleazy pizza place in the U District at 3 a.m. I still have no idea how this happened, as I had my card in my possession and I don't have my debit card number written down or anything that might give someone access to it. Anyways, I had to go through a bunch of stupid bullshit with my bank, which included cancelling my current card and waiting a week and 1/2 to get a new one, and signing an affadavit that said I didn't make the charge, which I sent back the day after I got it. I called about a week and a half after I sent it to make sure they recieved it, and they said they did. I thought all was taken care of.
Fast forward to today and I am checking my bank account online and notice that my bank made some bullshit $100 "forced post ach" withdrawl. I was immediately pissed off and called them. After being bounced around to no fewer than 4 departments and waiting on hold for well over 45 minutes, it is revealed to me that the affadavit I signed was never in fact processed, even though when I called to double check that they recieved it I was told that it was. WTF. This pisses me off for a few reasons, one being being the overall absurdity of the situation, the second (and biggest) being that I just paid rent and all my bills and am flat fucking broke, so it's not really a good time for them to reinstate the charge over a month later because they are incompetant assholes and don't know how to process something after they allegedly recieve it. That is bullshit, through and through. I am getting totally and completely fucked up the ass because of their mistake and they couldn't care less and won't even awknowledge it by apologizing or anything. Long story short I had to recieve and fill out another affadavit via fax and then fax it back to them this afternoon, which of course I had to pay for. I will not let them screw me on this one. I am going to call them every single goddamn day to follow up until this is resolved, and make it as big of an ordeal for them as they have made it for me. Banks are so evil and such an unfortunate necessity. shit.
Other than that there is nothing to report. I got my hair did on Monday and I look totally different, it's burgandy red with chunky platinum blonde highlights and I love it. My bangs are almost all the way grown out, thank Christ. Bangs are up there on the list of shittiest hair decisions I have made. blah.
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They caught a guy, a waiter, with a thing in his jacket that read the magnetic strips off credit cards and stored the data for later download using a PC. He had several hundred numbers on his home computer, I think. So, unless you want to keep eyes on your cards all the time, you should get a credit card because the rules are a bit different regarding unauthorized purchases. I think the deal is you're responsible for $50 worth of the purchases, at most. And I've never heard of anyone having to cough up the fifty - in fact, credit card companies are pretty good at spotting bogus charges. Also, if bad shit does happen, you're not out any money until after you've had a chance to fight it.
$0.02