WTH??????!?

[amethyst73]

Dear (banking institution),

I have no recollection of telling you to send anything like that much money to my long-distance phone company.  Nor can I make the large number match, say, a credit card or insurance bill that I might have paid to the wrong outlet by mistake.  Please fix!!!!

Concerned,
Me

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EDIT:  Woops.  My bad.  I will call long-distance phone company in the morning and see if they'll send me a refund of my massive overpayment.

Comments

[nezumiko.livejournal.com]

Oops! What happened? Misplace a decimal?

[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

Noooo.... Here's things in the order they ought to have happened. Things were slightly scrambled due to PANIC.

So: A couple of weeks back my credit card company issued me a new card (some e-vendor had had data stolen). This was fine, whatever.

Tonight, I see the stupid huge number. PANIC. Maybe it's what I meant to pay the credit card people?

When I logged on to the credit card site, I see balances from the old account transferred to the new account... but I can't actually get into the new account info. They need a security word that the site claims I provided when I requested the new card.

Hello? I didn't request the card! Therefore, what's the Word of Power?

Called the credit card company, got them to help. Find that, yeah, the amount paid to the phone company mysteriously matches what I *ought* to have paid to my credit company. By today. Ooops. This is the only real problem with online banking - it's possible to pay the wrong merchant!

So, new check sent to credit card company, which they will get two days late and penalize me for. And I need to call the phone company and plead with them tomorrow.

In other news: wanna get together the afternoon of Friday 10/9? And maybe again the afternoon (not dinner, sorry) of Sunday 10/18?

[nezumiko.livejournal.com]

Oi, after all that they're gonna penalize you for it? Seems kind of liek they ought to offer some forgiveness there. Hope the phone company comes through with the refund!

As for 10/9 and 10/18? Yes and Yes, please :D Although Sunday will be a short afternoon, as I don't tend to get free from church until about 2:15 at the earliest. But I shall look forward to what time we manage to scrounge together.

[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

Ditto. :) It will be VERY cool to see you! (And I'll bring owldolatrous's D&D stuff and messypeaches' Pratchett books back.)