mixed up orders / debit vs credit / paper checks
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 12:18 pm![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darkoshiOh boy. The delivery of the tech item I had ordered for Forestfen somehow got badly botched. Instead of receiving a printer/scanner all-in-one, I received a big box full of paper shopping bags! The bags were presumably intended for a certain large chain store whose name is shown on the bags, yet how they got mixed up with a printer/scanner, I have no idea. The store I ordered from was apologetic about the situation and will be sending me a new package.
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More info on debit cards vs credit cards, from earlier this year -
Debit vs. Credit Cards: How They Stack Up
I like it when articles show dates on them like that one does. Otherwise it is hard to tell how outdated the information may be.
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If you are paid by someone with a paper check, and you are not certain of the check's veracity, it is apparently safer** to try to deposit it at an ATM (even though it may bounce), than to try to cash it in person at a bank. If it is fraudulent and you try to cash it, you may end up handcuffed and in jail. That incident happened 4 years ago, but I assume the same kind of thing could still happen now.
** All I've been able to figure from reading comments on that story is that depositing a bad check is less incriminating than trying to cash it. Otherwise, how could anyone feel safe accepting checks for payment from people not known to them?
Curiously, young people commenting on the story seem to be of the opinion that using checks at all is old-fashioned and idiotic.
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More info on debit cards vs credit cards, from earlier this year -
Debit vs. Credit Cards: How They Stack Up
I like it when articles show dates on them like that one does. Otherwise it is hard to tell how outdated the information may be.
.
If you are paid by someone with a paper check, and you are not certain of the check's veracity, it is apparently safer** to try to deposit it at an ATM (even though it may bounce), than to try to cash it in person at a bank. If it is fraudulent and you try to cash it, you may end up handcuffed and in jail. That incident happened 4 years ago, but I assume the same kind of thing could still happen now.
** All I've been able to figure from reading comments on that story is that depositing a bad check is less incriminating than trying to cash it. Otherwise, how could anyone feel safe accepting checks for payment from people not known to them?
Curiously, young people commenting on the story seem to be of the opinion that using checks at all is old-fashioned and idiotic.