Fw: A Credit Card Funny

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>In March 1992 a man living in Newton, near Boston, received a bill for his

>as yet unused credit card stating that he owed $0.00. He ignored it and

>threw it away.

>

>In April he received another and threw that one away, too. The

>following month the credit card company sent him a very nasty note

>stating they were going to cancel his card if he didn't send them

>$0.00 by return of post. He called them, talked to them, they said it

>was a computer error and told him they'd take care of it.

>

>The following month our hero decided that it was about time that he

>tried out the troublesome credit card figuring that if there were

>purchases on his account it would put an end to his ridiculous

>predicament. However, in the first store that he produced his credit

>card in payment for his purchases, he found that his card had been

>cancelled.

>

>He called the credit card company who apologized for the computer

>error once again and said that they would take care of it. The next

>day he got a bill for $0.00 stating that payment was now overdue.

>Assuming that having spoken to the credit card company only the

>previous day, the latest bill was yet another mistake. So he ignored it,

>and trusted that the company would be as good as their word and sort the

>problem out.

>

>The next month he got a bill for $0.00 stating that he had 10 days

>to pay his account or the company would have to take steps to

>recover the debt.

>

>Finally giving in he thought he would play the company at their own

>game and mailed them a check for $0.00. The computer duly processed

>his account and returned a statement to the effect that he now owed

>the credit card company nothing at all.

>

>A week later, the man's bank called him asking him what he was doing

>writing a check for $0.00. After a lengthy explanation the bank

>replied that the $0.00 check had caused their check processing

>software to fail. The bank could not now process ANY checks from ANY

>of their customers that day because the check for $0.00 was causing

>the computer to crash.

>

>The following month the man received a letter from the credit card

>company claiming that his check had bounced and that he now owed them

>$0.00 and unless he sent a check by return of post they would be

>taking steps to recover the debt.

>

>The man, who had been considering buying his wife a computer for her

>birthday, bought her a typewriter instead.

>

>[forwarded by Sandra Bachmann]

>

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>Thot for the Day:

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