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~inquiry

I definitely would like to being off The Stuff. I was, in fact, for something like eight years, then fell hard off the wagon to help my younger brother celebrate his 40th birthday....

The UHaul thing is slowly becoming clearer. I'm all but certain it's something effed with the credit card charge alert system of my bank... but embarrassingly that's after reaming out a UHaul customer support person a couple times.

Part of the problem was that in the same time period I wound up being double charged at a "Dollar General"... because I attempted their self-checkout line... but their machine froze and no receipt was printed... I assumed the charge didn't go through.. and the employee there at the time checked me out manually.

But it turns out the original charge DIDN'T go through... and of course wouldn't you know I declined a receipt through the manual lane... BUT, the manager there listened to my story and immediately showed the employee how to work a "CUST SAT" refund. Very impressive.

However... you can imagine that a couple credit card faux pax's had me in the palms-gushing-sweat "credit card fraud" zone.

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~tffb wrote (thread):

My Lawd, Inquiry. Next time, use an ATM and pay cash. Something I wish I had thought of the other day when I had my card reading false start at BP. The whole thing was "an event" there, because no matter how many people waltzed up to pay for their items using a debit card reader that didn't work, the indifferent clerk just lightly muttered "declined". Like it was a thing that JUST happened.

No, "cash only, sir/ma'am - the card reader is broke". He passively stood there and let it keep declining cards back-to-back.

Good things came of it, as I mentioned in a previous Midnight post - but the dude had zero integrity to just SAY the machine was not working. Crazy.

Either way, an ATM visit could have solved my problem, but the ones around here run $4.50 per transaction, and I'm too broke to burn off $4.50 just to have cash.

I'd consider it in your case though, Inquiry. The bank you use seems to be having trouble processing transactions. U-Haul employees got eviscerated, Dollar General clerks got crash courses in obscure refund methods - it's been "a deal" for everyone. ATM's are simple (expensive, but simple).

Happy (very?) belated birthday to your younger brother.

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