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- From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Question about bounced check
- Message-ID: <183921@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: 16 Oct 92 19:43:49 GMT
- Sender: daemon@pyramid.pyramid.com
- Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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- In article <1992Oct15.225547.8344@news.columbia.edu> dth2@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (David T Ho) writes:
- >Someone wrote me a check a few days ago and I went to my bank and
- >deposited it. Today, I got this notice from my bank telling me that
- >there was insufficient fund in that person's account and they're
- >charging me a fee because of this bounced check. My question is: Can
- >the do this?
-
- Yes, in most states. Of course YOU can collect this fee from the
- check writer, but in most states you have to file charges to do
- so.
-
- Why the bank expects you to know the check is rubber is beyond
- me, but that's the way it is.... businesses get hurt bad by
- this double-dip policy.
-