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- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!bill
- From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
- Subject: Re: Question about bounced check
- Message-ID: <1992Oct16.234034.13016@unixland.natick.ma.us>
- Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix (508) 655-3848
- References: <1992Oct15.225547.8344@news.columbia.edu> <1992Oct16.041540.6992@ads.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 23:40:34 GMT
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- henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch) writes:
- >i know of no instance of someone collecting this fee from the bank ...
- >doing a chargeback takes about three seconds ... and apparently bank
- >seconds are expensive.
-
- Oh, yes, those $4.35/hr bank clerks are a budget breaker!
-
- I think it's just another ploy of the Big Banks (tm) to squeeze more
- money out of us. Or, it could be a tactic to make us "be careful of
- who we take checks from", or in other words, to do their job for them
- (processing check verification etc).
-
- >i think the idea is that you collect this fee from the person who gave
- >you the bum check ...
-
- Can a small business do this if no notice has been publicly posted?
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