So, about a week ago I posted here about my shiny new video card I just put in my PC. It was expensive, but I decided why not, I'll treat myself.
It would seem the universe is now telling me that was a mistake.
The buyer I bought the card from mistakenly charged me for two. A costly mistake, but one that was discovered and eventually rectified. No problem, right?
I don't keep a large amount of money in my checking account, so when this double payment hit, I became overdrawn. My bank will automatically transfer funds from savings to cover this, but they charge a $40 fee for doing so. Shitty for something that turned out to be a mistake, but oh well, that's life, right?
Except they charge this fee for every single transaction. Since this mistake want immediately discovered, every normal everyday transaction I was making with my debit card was incurring another $40 fee. There's one transaction on there for $0.49 that then incurred a $40 fee. And they didn't bother to alert me to any of this until my savings account hit negative, which incurs it's own sets of fees for going below the minimum balance required for the account.
So now when I look at my accounts, all I see is large red numbers. And my bank is being less than cooperative about waiving and fixing this because, well, fuck me I guess.
It would seem the universe is now telling me that was a mistake.
The buyer I bought the card from mistakenly charged me for two. A costly mistake, but one that was discovered and eventually rectified. No problem, right?
I don't keep a large amount of money in my checking account, so when this double payment hit, I became overdrawn. My bank will automatically transfer funds from savings to cover this, but they charge a $40 fee for doing so. Shitty for something that turned out to be a mistake, but oh well, that's life, right?
Except they charge this fee for every single transaction. Since this mistake want immediately discovered, every normal everyday transaction I was making with my debit card was incurring another $40 fee. There's one transaction on there for $0.49 that then incurred a $40 fee. And they didn't bother to alert me to any of this until my savings account hit negative, which incurs it's own sets of fees for going below the minimum balance required for the account.
So now when I look at my accounts, all I see is large red numbers. And my bank is being less than cooperative about waiving and fixing this because, well, fuck me I guess.