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Jan. 19th, 2007
Hotel problems
Jan. 19th, 2007 12:01 pmI suppose most people who read this also read the Arisia community...but in case not:
I reserved our hotel room with my debit card. When I checked in, I discovered they'd put a hold on $360.55 in my checking account.
When I checked out, I paid $200 cash and put the rest of the balance on Teri's debit card, which is linked to a different account at a different bank (with, of course, different - and entirely sufficient - funds). At the time, I asked the check-out clerk how long the hold would last.
"Usually it's one business day," he said.
Four days later (this morning), the hold had not been released and my mortgage check had gone bouncy-bouncy. I'd called the hotel and left voicemail the night before, but hadn't got an answer. I called my credit union this morning, and they told me that the hold would last for TEN DAYS unless the hotel faxed them a release. I got an authorization number and finally managed to reach someone at the hotel.
So, with any luck, this is all fixed at an additional cost of only $20 to me (for the bounced check) plus some damage to my credit report.
Sigh.
I reserved our hotel room with my debit card. When I checked in, I discovered they'd put a hold on $360.55 in my checking account.
When I checked out, I paid $200 cash and put the rest of the balance on Teri's debit card, which is linked to a different account at a different bank (with, of course, different - and entirely sufficient - funds). At the time, I asked the check-out clerk how long the hold would last.
"Usually it's one business day," he said.
Four days later (this morning), the hold had not been released and my mortgage check had gone bouncy-bouncy. I'd called the hotel and left voicemail the night before, but hadn't got an answer. I called my credit union this morning, and they told me that the hold would last for TEN DAYS unless the hotel faxed them a release. I got an authorization number and finally managed to reach someone at the hotel.
So, with any luck, this is all fixed at an additional cost of only $20 to me (for the bounced check) plus some damage to my credit report.
Sigh.
Hotel problems
Jan. 19th, 2007 12:01 pmI suppose most people who read this also read the Arisia community...but in case not:
I reserved our hotel room with my debit card. When I checked in, I discovered they'd put a hold on $360.55 in my checking account.
When I checked out, I paid $200 cash and put the rest of the balance on Teri's debit card, which is linked to a different account at a different bank (with, of course, different - and entirely sufficient - funds). At the time, I asked the check-out clerk how long the hold would last.
"Usually it's one business day," he said.
Four days later (this morning), the hold had not been released and my mortgage check had gone bouncy-bouncy. I'd called the hotel and left voicemail the night before, but hadn't got an answer. I called my credit union this morning, and they told me that the hold would last for TEN DAYS unless the hotel faxed them a release. I got an authorization number and finally managed to reach someone at the hotel.
So, with any luck, this is all fixed at an additional cost of only $20 to me (for the bounced check) plus some damage to my credit report.
Sigh.
I reserved our hotel room with my debit card. When I checked in, I discovered they'd put a hold on $360.55 in my checking account.
When I checked out, I paid $200 cash and put the rest of the balance on Teri's debit card, which is linked to a different account at a different bank (with, of course, different - and entirely sufficient - funds). At the time, I asked the check-out clerk how long the hold would last.
"Usually it's one business day," he said.
Four days later (this morning), the hold had not been released and my mortgage check had gone bouncy-bouncy. I'd called the hotel and left voicemail the night before, but hadn't got an answer. I called my credit union this morning, and they told me that the hold would last for TEN DAYS unless the hotel faxed them a release. I got an authorization number and finally managed to reach someone at the hotel.
So, with any luck, this is all fixed at an additional cost of only $20 to me (for the bounced check) plus some damage to my credit report.
Sigh.
I feel good.
Why?
Because I thought I'd lost someone I quite like from my flist, and it turns out that the person in question just started a new journal and deleted their old one.
But I didn't realize that right away. So I wrote a long sad post about it. But before I posted it, I decided to go check out the few people who'd recently friended me. Now, I normally only get new LJ friends once a year, right after Arisia, and this is that time. But I was delighted to realize that one of the two or three new people who'd friended me was, in fact, my "lost" friend.
Needless to say, I immediately deleted my "sad" post.
So I'm happy. I don't like it when people go away. And it's not a damned thing to do with my having a small flist; I like reading most of the stuff of the people on my flist, even when it confuses me.
Anyway, quick introduction: on second thought, you can read my profile if you want. But one thing I want to mention is that a large number of my posts are friends-locked. Which reminds me, now I have to make a friends-locked post about why some of my posts are friends-locked.
BRB.
Why?
Because I thought I'd lost someone I quite like from my flist, and it turns out that the person in question just started a new journal and deleted their old one.
But I didn't realize that right away. So I wrote a long sad post about it. But before I posted it, I decided to go check out the few people who'd recently friended me. Now, I normally only get new LJ friends once a year, right after Arisia, and this is that time. But I was delighted to realize that one of the two or three new people who'd friended me was, in fact, my "lost" friend.
Needless to say, I immediately deleted my "sad" post.
So I'm happy. I don't like it when people go away. And it's not a damned thing to do with my having a small flist; I like reading most of the stuff of the people on my flist, even when it confuses me.
Anyway, quick introduction: on second thought, you can read my profile if you want. But one thing I want to mention is that a large number of my posts are friends-locked. Which reminds me, now I have to make a friends-locked post about why some of my posts are friends-locked.
BRB.
I feel good.
Why?
Because I thought I'd lost someone I quite like from my flist, and it turns out that the person in question just started a new journal and deleted their old one.
But I didn't realize that right away. So I wrote a long sad post about it. But before I posted it, I decided to go check out the few people who'd recently friended me. Now, I normally only get new LJ friends once a year, right after Arisia, and this is that time. But I was delighted to realize that one of the two or three new people who'd friended me was, in fact, my "lost" friend.
Needless to say, I immediately deleted my "sad" post.
So I'm happy. I don't like it when people go away. And it's not a damned thing to do with my having a small flist; I like reading most of the stuff of the people on my flist, even when it confuses me.
Anyway, quick introduction: on second thought, you can read my profile if you want. But one thing I want to mention is that a large number of my posts are friends-locked. Which reminds me, now I have to make a friends-locked post about why some of my posts are friends-locked.
BRB.
Why?
Because I thought I'd lost someone I quite like from my flist, and it turns out that the person in question just started a new journal and deleted their old one.
But I didn't realize that right away. So I wrote a long sad post about it. But before I posted it, I decided to go check out the few people who'd recently friended me. Now, I normally only get new LJ friends once a year, right after Arisia, and this is that time. But I was delighted to realize that one of the two or three new people who'd friended me was, in fact, my "lost" friend.
Needless to say, I immediately deleted my "sad" post.
So I'm happy. I don't like it when people go away. And it's not a damned thing to do with my having a small flist; I like reading most of the stuff of the people on my flist, even when it confuses me.
Anyway, quick introduction: on second thought, you can read my profile if you want. But one thing I want to mention is that a large number of my posts are friends-locked. Which reminds me, now I have to make a friends-locked post about why some of my posts are friends-locked.
BRB.