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- From: Brady_David@Tandem.Com (David Brady)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Question about bounced check
- Message-ID: <1992Oct16.222753.7044@tandem.com>
- Date: 16 Oct 92 22:27:53 GMT
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- In article <183921@pyramid.pyramid.com> Lon Stowell,
- lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com writes:
- > 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.
-
- I'm just throwing this out but I've imagined that your signature on the
- back of check was sort of like saying "I'm responsible for the check."
- That is, you sign the check and it bounces: you pay the rubber check fee.
-
- That, at least, is what I think. (Very different from what is actually
- the truth though!)
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