Don't forget the decimal

[Sheya Stephens]

So... I was paying bills. My cell phone bill was $24.21. It was late, I was tired... After I hit the confirm button, I noticed I paid my cell phone company $2, 241. OH MY! I called my bank... since I used my Check card, they couldn't deny my charges.

So, I called my friend, and he walked me through the process on how to get a refund.

LESSON LEARNED--- PAY ATTENTION! To think I paid one bill with almost a whole months salary scared me half to death. All is good. God is good.... I, on the other hand, need a lot of help!

:o

[Joanne Vergin]

Aww. I feel for you. Thanks for passing that along.

[Michael B. Ross]

Sheya, if you will send me a bank check for $10.00, I will send you some great tips on how to avoid your error. :laughing

So... I was paying bills. My cell phone bill was $24.21. It was late, I was tired... After I hit the confirm button, I noticed I paid my cell phone company $2, 241. OH MY! I called my bank... since I used my Check card, they couldn't deny my charges.

So, I called my friend, and he walked me through the process on how to get a refund.

LESSON LEARNED--- PAY ATTENTION! To think I paid one bill with almost a whole months salary scared me half to death. All is good. God is good.... I, on the other hand, need a lot of help!

:o

[Kathy O'Connor]

The things you find on NazNet!!! I clicked on your website only to learn that it is TBI where Darrell Trotter works. What a surprise! He and Moni used to be at Jackson FCN, along with Jeff's family. Please pass along well wishes from Don and Kathy O'Connor.

[Barbara Moulton]

I did this in reverse once. The Church gives Carl his housing allowance on the first of each month. I deposit it in our account (using an ATM) so that the money is there for our mortgage.

Once I punched in a deposit amount that was 100 times less than the cheque amount (those pesky decimal points).

I had to transfer money from our line of credit to cover the mortgage until the bank sorted it out a few days later.

[Sheya Stephens]

All turned out good. We received our refund before we had to rely on the reserve credit line.

[Dana Grant]

I WISH there was a decimal problem with our January cell phone bill......

Remember I was in the hospital, right? Well, our family called everyone and his brother and his aunt and uncle to let them know how I was doing, right?

We have 1400 minutes on a family plan. Well, we used something like 1859 minutes --

Bringing our total bill for the December-January month to something like $370.00 (not the exact amount, but close). I usually pay about $120.00 for 4 phones.

I thought there had to be a mistake. There wasn't.

Oh well, easy come, easy go..........SHEEEEEESH!!!

We've never even reached 1400 minutes in a single month.

I think we had a lot to talk about, wouldn't you agree? LOL

[Gina Stevenson]

Yes, those extra minutes on cell phones add up quickly! Having found, too, that the amount has gone up (with having something like 2 minutes a couple of months ago over my limit), when I got to my limit last month, due to vehicular hunting, I began using the house phone for a few LD calls. Figured that the $3.60 I paid on that when the bill came this week would've been something like $18-19 (5+x as much/minute!) extra on the cell.

That's why I have an extra step after each daytime call on my cell ... I have a file in my "notes" list in the phone for "anytime minutes" and keep a running total, editing it after each daytime/non-weekend call, then begin anew each month when my minutes start over. A pain, but not so painful as paying big bucks for too many minutes!! :eek:

Glad they had good things to report on, to everybody & their brother, auint, uncle, et cetera, BTW, Dana! ;)

I WISH there was a decimal problem with our January cell phone bill......

Remember I was in the hospital, right? Well, our family called everyone and his brother and his aunt and uncle to let them know how I was doing, right?

We have 1400 minutes on a family plan. Well, we used something like 1859 minutes --

Bringing our total bill for the December-January month to something like $370.00 (not the exact amount, but close). I usually pay about $120.00 for 4 phones.

I thought there had to be a mistake. There wasn't.

Oh well, easy come, easy go..........SHEEEEEESH!!!

We've never even reached 1400 minutes in a single month.

I think we had a lot to talk about, wouldn't you agree? LOL

[Dana Grant]

Gina says: That's why I have an extra step after each daytime call on my cell ... I have a file in my "notes" list in the phone for "anytime minutes" and keep a running total, editing it after each daytime/non-weekend call, then begin anew each month when my minutes start over. A pain, but not so painful as paying big bucks for too many minutes!! :eek:

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Well, it really would not have mattered that one time. All of those calls were necessary, and it was a blessing to be able to tell people good news. SO, I paid it willingly.......but MAN!! I definitely don't want very many months like THAT!!

[Gina Stevenson]

Gina says: That's why I have an extra step after each daytime call on my cell ... I have a file in my "notes" list in the phone for "anytime minutes" and keep a running total, editing it after each daytime/non-weekend call, then begin anew each month when my minutes start over. A pain, but not so painful as paying big bucks for too many minutes!! :eek:

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Well, it really would not have mattered that one time. All of those calls were necessary, and it was a blessing to be able to tell people good news. SO, I paid it willingly.......but MAN!! I definitely don't want very many months like THAT!!

No, I didn't mean at all that yours was a superfluous payment. Goodness, girl! Your news needed to be [meant "said" but had "paid" here instead]. But was just adding, for anyone else who may read, I guess, about keeping tabs in a little note file ... helps to not have a bunch of months with minute count overage(s). ;)

You're right re not wanting very many months like that, for sure! :eek:

[Colleen Davis]

Well I found out today that Verizon charges you air time when searching for ring tones during Peak hours. I got Jayme a new cell phone and had $157 worth of charges for her to download 2 ring tones. When I bought the phone they didn't tell me about that. They did give me a credit of 1/2 of that amount. I probably could have protested more, but figured that we just had to learn the hard way. I told her to do it after 9 pm or on the weekends when there's no charge.