Posted by Ward Abbott on April 11, 2006, 9:04 am
wrote:
>And you have never made a mistake?
Priorities in life determine our success AND failure rate.
oh...gee.....I didn't get a electric bill this month, or last month,
or the month before........I 'guess' I don't owe them anything...
Posted by Scott en Aztlán on April 11, 2006, 10:13 am
wrote:
>I'd ask the utility if they reported this against your credit rating.
Or just check your credit report (which you should be doing anyway).
>I'd also ask them about setting up an automatic draft plan - I did it
>with all my utilities - peace of mind if going out of town etc. -
Peace of mind? Knowing that some incompetent clerk at an uncaring
company can dip into my checking account at will? Maybe hit an extra
key by accident and debit my account for $433.00 instead of $43.00?
Give me a break!
Forget automatic payment schemes - programs like Microsoft Money
automatically remind you when bills are due so you'll know to pay
them, even if you never got the bill. MM saved my ass a couple of
months back when my homeowner's association screwed up and didn't mail
out the quarterly bills to about half the homeowners.
--
Official Member of the Rebate Rage Club
Posted by rick++ on April 11, 2006, 1:37 pm
>debit my account for $433.00 instead of $43.00
It can be worse than that. There was case at Wendy'sin the news where
the clerk
absent-mindedly typed in the four numbers twice in a row,
so the bill was about ten thousand times higher. Messed you
the customer's bank account for a while.
Posted by Scott en Aztlán on April 12, 2006, 9:33 am
>>debit my account for $433.00 instead of $43.00
>It can be worse than that. There was case at Wendy's
It was Burger King:
>in the news where
>the clerk
>absent-mindedly typed in the four numbers twice in a row,
>so the bill was about ten thousand times higher. Messed you
>the customer's bank account for a while.
--
Official Member of the Rebate Rage Club
Posted by anon on April 12, 2006, 9:57 am
>>I'd also ask them about setting up an automatic draft
>>plan - I did it
>>with all my utilities - peace of mind if going out of
>>town etc. -
> Peace of mind? Knowing that some incompetent clerk at an
> uncaring
> company can dip into my checking account at will? Maybe
> hit an extra
> key by accident and debit my account for $433.00 instead
> of $43.00?
> Give me a break!
> Forget automatic payment schemes - programs like
> Microsoft Money
> automatically remind you when bills are due so you'll
> know to pay
> them, even if you never got the bill. MM saved my ass a
> couple of
> months back when my homeowner's association screwed up
> and didn't mail
> out the quarterly bills to about half the homeowners.
i used to worry about this type of thing too, but now i
don't see it
as much of a concern and have many of my utilities paid
automatically via
CC or ACH. It's all automated... it's not like someone is
typing the
amount any more separately for the payment amount. The
bill is
generated way in advance & that same amount is getting
batch
transferred via computer for the ACH withdrawal.
i get the bills electronically 3 weeks in advance... so i
have plenty
of time to either get any errors resolved or to block ACH.
I've
never had an issue. My parents did have an issue a few
years
ago with Charter & refuse to do it with them, but it was a
long time
ago. Times and technology change.
i do my mortgage, gas, electric, TV, phone/DSL, & mobile
this
way. Only my trash & water do i do the traditional way, &
that's
because things aren't entirely electronic. My HOA i just
have
a monthly scheduled amount at the bank that gets sent on a
particular
day.
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