pro_junior Report This Comment
Date: February 22, 2017 08:36PM

guess you should have paid that toll...should have sent a check (cheque for some of you) for the amount of $0.00

pulse Report This Comment
Date: February 22, 2017 10:05PM

Come on Gramps. Who the fuck has a cheque book anymore?

Maybe here you can use them for government bills.. but nobody else would take one.

Mrkim Report This Comment
Date: February 23, 2017 10:53AM

When I opened my last bank account ... "So how many checks will you be needing for this new account?" "Uh, none."

jgoins Report This Comment
Date: February 23, 2017 11:45AM

We still use them for some bills. We use them to pay the monthly bills whose website charges extra to pay online. We would rather buy a stamp and mail the payment to them instead of paying an extra $5 to $10 to pay online. Why should we be penalized for paying someone immediately?

pulse Report This Comment
Date: February 23, 2017 12:03PM

Cheques are practically non-existent here. Have been for years and years. Aside from government departments (and eg real estate deposit/bond) I think you'd struggle to find anywhere that even accepts them.

Absolutely everywhere prefers cards. Even cash is pretty much dead. I've had around $80 in my wallet for maybe 3 months, everything on cards, tap and go.

For you though jgoins, I'll make an exception and accept cash OR cheque from you

fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: February 23, 2017 03:12PM

i use nothing but cash.
fuck the Rothschild's, J.P. Morgan and the rest with a big black rubber dick!
if you have to charge it, you cannot afford it.

jgoins Report This Comment
Date: February 24, 2017 01:49AM

Well already screwed up with credit cards, now the only card I use is my bank debit card no credit on it. Basically only use it on Redbox anyway.

pro_junior Report This Comment
Date: February 24, 2017 03:25AM

right. well saying should have used your debit/credit card and charged the amount of $0.00 doesn't really have the same snark to it now does it?

jgoins Report This Comment
Date: February 24, 2017 12:19PM

No you are right a check for $0.00 is the right form of payment for this bill but who would have eve thought they would need to send anything. Of course after receiving the first notice of nonpayment of $0.00 I would have contacted the origin of the bill to talk to a human.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: February 25, 2017 03:30AM

Back in th 90's if you copped a fine for say $100 you could pay them $101 and they had to send you a check for the $1 that you over payed.
This gave some pleasure in knowing that you were wasting the departments time and resources. They process probably cost them several dollars.
But the best thing was, before they figured it out, was that until you cashed that refund cheque, the actual fine was not processed in the system. In the case of demerit points this was very very handy because if you never cashed the refund cheque they never debited any points.

pro_junior Report This Comment
Date: February 25, 2017 06:17PM

pulse Report This Comment
Date: February 26, 2017 12:32AM

I'd heard about the thing wob said when I was a teenager too; tried it, didn't work. Still took the points off my license.

Oh well

jgoins Report This Comment
Date: February 26, 2017 12:50AM

My wife over paid our cell phone bill by $85 last month and they just credited my account the amount and didn't send it back. Guess it just depends on what you are paying.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: February 26, 2017 02:41AM

I'd imagine that's what most would do these days

pro_junior Report This Comment
Date: February 26, 2017 03:48PM

the over-payment to comcast was after closing the account so they had to refund the balance..

woberto Report This Comment
Date: February 27, 2017 07:08AM

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