I knew this stuff would start happening when fast food joints started taking credit/debit cards. The moral to this story is obvious: Pay Cash! Or at least use a credit card. Throw the debit card in the trash where it belongs.
4 Burgers At Burger King for $4,334.33 — Takes Days To Resolve
A quick meal at George Beane’s neighborhood Burger King ended up costing a lot more than he expected when he got the $4,334.33 bill.
Beane ordered two Whopper Jr.s and two Rodeo cheeseburgers when he pulled up to the drive-through window last week. The cashier, however, forgot that she’d entered the $4.33 charge on his debit card and punched in the numbers again without erasing the original ones — thus creating a four-figure bill.
The electronic charge went through to George and Pat Beane’s checking account Tuesday and left the couple penniless. Their mortgage payment was due and they worried checks they had written would bounce, Pat Beane said.
“We were thinking, ‘No, not now!’” she said of the overcharge.
Terri Woody, the restaurant manager, said Burger King officials tried to get the charge refunded. But the bank said the funds were on a three-day hold and could not be released, Pat Beane said.
My bank charges me to use my card as a debit card. I always tell store employees to hit the credit option.
I have never used a credit card(or debit) at a fast food place. If I can’t afford the cash for a meal deal…then I eat somewhere healthy…..
If it weren’t for Mc Donalds fries I would never go near a fast food.
A convincing case for eating naturally organic foods grown in excrement fertilized fields, along side the marijuana, in your own backyard.
My question is why do they still have people entering in the number? That’s just asking for a mistake. Don’t they enter in the order and the computer figures out the cost? Why can’t they just have the computer tell the debit what the cost is? I know it’s possible, I see it set up like that everywhere I go.
The bank screwed up by first allowing the transaction then by not stopping it. The bank was made aware that the account holder had not approved the transaction. The bank receives a transaction fee for every transaction. That makes them responsible for correcting any error they are made aware of. The three days is bullcrap. The money never left the bank and the bank had three days free use.
Now, where are all the Libertarians that want to deregulate the banks even more?
Bureaucracy (boy, what a challenging word to spell correctly even though I’ve said hundreds of times!)– bureaucracy TAKES money so easily, it GIVES back like a mule in heat. Debit cards are a direct transaction. In this world we need a Holy Spirit, a proxy server, a third party to protect us from direct contact. Credit cards are the way to go in a society based on trust but filled with liars.