Paying cash? That'll cost extra!

[buckthesystem]

Friday, April 25 CT by Bob Sullivan

Rhonda Payne went to an AT&T Wireless store in Calhoun, Ga., recently to pay her phone bill in cash. She'd been hit by ID theft and was forced to close her checking account, so she was worried she wouldn

[Massorite]

Friday, April 25 CT by Bob Sullivan

Rhonda Payne went to an AT&T Wireless store in Calhoun, Ga., recently to pay her phone bill in cash. She'd been hit by ID theft and was forced to close her checking account, so she was worried she would

[hmh]

And yet the company I currently pay my water bill to charges $2.50 to pay on line or by credit card. Otherwise it has to be by check or money order. NO CASH TAKEN!

[kat8585]

I've been paying my car payment over the phone free for years. Last month I was told there would be a $10 charge for this. I was given an address to write to complain, and hopefully my letter didn't burn up before it got there. I never heard back from them.

My alternative is do it online, and I don't want my banking info online. They won't take my debit card (in person) without calling it a cash advance, and we know what that would eventually cost! My other alternative is to go to my bank 7 miles away, draw the money, go back to Wells Fargo, and pay in cash.

I could pay by check in the mail, but I'm trying to pay less interest by getting it paid immediately every month.

I will never do business with a Wells Fargo bank again, and I told them so.

[buckthesystem]

I've been paying my car payment over the phone free for years. Last month I was told there would be a $10 charge for this. I was given an address to write to complain, and hopefully my letter didn't burn up before it got there. I never heard back from them.

I have a standard letter that I send to all companies and government departments if they don't reply to my correspondence within about four or five weeks, it is short and to the point:

I quote the heading of the original letter and the date and then say: "Please advise when I may expect to receive a reply to the above-mentioned letter".

This always works! And I have done it for about 10 years now.

Sometimes government departments will not reply until I have sent them (usually) up to four or five "chaser letters". In the worst case I didn't get a reply until I had sent 11 chaser letters, but it is "no skin off my nose" as I never put stamps on letters to government departments and I don't care how irate they get, and I figure that "their job" is to answer questions from the public, and we the public have already paid - bigtime - for answers to our questions.

Also I don't like being ignored. Try it!

[buckthesystem]

Massorite, re. your tattooed SS number:

A tattoo of your SSN must be voluntary. Even the most "compliant" (or obsequious, or maybe just plain gullible) person would realise how dangerous that is.

Anyway, surely masses of people would outright refuse to have this. Blackmail or no blackmail, "benefits" or no benefits, sometimes we have to be prepared to pay a price for our principles.

[kat8585]

Massorite, re. your tattooed SS number:

A tattoo of your SSN must be voluntary.

For now. There will come a time when it won't be.

[Gerioke]

All the stores around here are going to teller-less check-outs. It's hard enough for me to adjust to this system. I can't imagine the difficulty it will create for the elderly. Perhaps another reason to justify euthanasia?

[kat8585]

All the stores around here are going to teller-less check-outs. It's hard enough for me to adjust to this system. I can't imagine the difficulty it will create for the elderly. Perhaps another reason to justify euthanasia?

Here, too. But there are so many problems with them that they still have to have someone to help with them.

[OneLight]

Can only imagine what is next ...