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bladespark) wrote2006-09-27 01:52 pm
bladespark) wrote2006-09-27 01:52 pm
Isn't life wonderful?
So... a series of events:
1. I decide I need to touch up my Windstone Mother dragon before selling her. (Anybody want a really, really, really old retired green Windstone in just-short-of-mint condition?)
2. I research materials, learn that a specific paint marker is used by Windstone for the gold bits.
3. I order the marker, to be delivered priority mail.
4. The marker company leaves a message on my machine asking me to authorize their sending the marker by UPS ground, as it's flammabe and can't go airmail. I do not get this message, as my phone wasn't properly showing voicemail.
5. A few weeks later I write myself a check for the exact balance contained in my old bank account, and depost it into my new, taking out $200 in cash at the same time so that I can buy some silver. (They don't take checks at the silver place, for reasons shortly apparent.)
6. Verizon institutes a new mailbox system, their warning about losing all messages causes me to check my voicemail, where I find the message left earlier. I authorize the marker shipment, eagery await delivery.
7. The marker payment is taken out of my old bank account.
8. My check to myself reaches my old bank, and is bounced back, with insufficient funds, because my account is now less the price of a marker + shipping. (About $6.)
9. I get a call from the new bank going "er, we're not mad or anything, we just wanted to let you know that your check bounced and you're now in the red because of the $200 chash you took out of it, since there was less than that in the account when you started."
10. I curse fate, my own stupidity, and the horrible timing of the universe, and go to write myself a new check that will leave a hundered bucks or so in the old account, because heaven knowns what else I have lurking out there as yet uncleared.
The whole fiasco is costing me an annoying amount, given that I got charged a check return fee by the one bank, and an overdraft fee by the other. (Though happily the new bank is nicer about this, as the overdraft fee there was about a fifth the size of the one the old used to charge me for that. Pacific Continental and Zions respectively, if anybody cares.)
1. I decide I need to touch up my Windstone Mother dragon before selling her. (Anybody want a really, really, really old retired green Windstone in just-short-of-mint condition?)
2. I research materials, learn that a specific paint marker is used by Windstone for the gold bits.
3. I order the marker, to be delivered priority mail.
4. The marker company leaves a message on my machine asking me to authorize their sending the marker by UPS ground, as it's flammabe and can't go airmail. I do not get this message, as my phone wasn't properly showing voicemail.
5. A few weeks later I write myself a check for the exact balance contained in my old bank account, and depost it into my new, taking out $200 in cash at the same time so that I can buy some silver. (They don't take checks at the silver place, for reasons shortly apparent.)
6. Verizon institutes a new mailbox system, their warning about losing all messages causes me to check my voicemail, where I find the message left earlier. I authorize the marker shipment, eagery await delivery.
7. The marker payment is taken out of my old bank account.
8. My check to myself reaches my old bank, and is bounced back, with insufficient funds, because my account is now less the price of a marker + shipping. (About $6.)
9. I get a call from the new bank going "er, we're not mad or anything, we just wanted to let you know that your check bounced and you're now in the red because of the $200 chash you took out of it, since there was less than that in the account when you started."
10. I curse fate, my own stupidity, and the horrible timing of the universe, and go to write myself a new check that will leave a hundered bucks or so in the old account, because heaven knowns what else I have lurking out there as yet uncleared.
The whole fiasco is costing me an annoying amount, given that I got charged a check return fee by the one bank, and an overdraft fee by the other. (Though happily the new bank is nicer about this, as the overdraft fee there was about a fifth the size of the one the old used to charge me for that. Pacific Continental and Zions respectively, if anybody cares.)