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Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. With the amount of online
purchases I make, I knew that I'd get screwed one of these days. And
today was that day.
This morning, while closing out last month's accounting crap (work
stuff, not home stuff) I happened to check my work credit card balance
online. I don't normally do that, but I wanted to see if a pending FedEx
charge for $9.12 had shown up on my account . It hadn't yet, but two
other noticeable charges were staring back at me.
One charge for $1,300. One charge for $1,800.
Grand total: $3,100.
What the hell?
The two charges were from yesterday and they
were from a shipping supply company that I made a purchase from--back in
May. And that purchase was only $40. Ain't no 3,000 bucks. Nosiree.
Fortunately for me, the folks at Chase Bank
Visa allowed me to dispute the charges and promised to send me a new
card within five days. Which, of course, meant that my current credit
card account was being closed permanently. And in turn, that meant I had
to spend the rest of my morning contacting the likes of PayPal, Google
Advertising, Yahoo Search Marketing, FedEx, USPS, my web hosting
company, and a bunch of others to tell them not to post any new charges
on that credit card. What a freakin' pain.
But, on the bright side, the day wasn't a total
loss. Barney's internet connection was down all afternoon so at least I
was able to get a lot of work done after lunch. |
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