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  • #1

    Never trust new customers

    I should know better than to trust new customers.

    I opened a checking account and debit card for a new customer last week. Her credit was bad, but she seemed cool, so I gave her the benefit of the doubt. By yesterday, she had drained the account and overdrew it about $400. And it was mostly PayPal transactions and gambling sites. So much for needing this money to care for her daughter. 😡

    I should have either said we couldn’t open the account or said just a savings account, no debt card. Not that the debit card really made a difference. She hadn’t even received it yet. I should have put a new account hold on the check, too. She wouldn’t have been able to withdraw the funds for 9 business days.

    I’ve probably said this before, but I am never trusting a customer again.
    "I look at the stars. It's a clear night and the Milky Way seems so near. That's where I'll be going soon. "We are all star stuff." I suddenly remember Delenn's line from Joe's script. Not a bad prospect. I am not afraid. In the meantime, let me close my eyes and sense the beauty around me. And take that breath under the dark sky full of stars. Breathe in. Breathe out. That's all."
    -Mira Furlan
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  • #2
    So which is this one: a grifter, a gambling addict or the world's worst personal finance manger?
    I'm trying to see things from your point of view, but I can't get my head that far up my keister!

    Who is John Galt?
    -Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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    • #3
      They said gambling websites, so I'm betting it's a gambling addict...
      “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
      One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.
      The other, of course, involves orcs." -- John Rogers

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      • #4
        Customers just aren't worth trusting.
        Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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        • #5
          I suspect that she’s a gambling addict who turned to grifting to support her habit.

          She lives half a block from the bank (or at least that’s where she’s getting mail) so if we need to collect from her, it shouldn’t be too hard.
          "I look at the stars. It's a clear night and the Milky Way seems so near. That's where I'll be going soon. "We are all star stuff." I suddenly remember Delenn's line from Joe's script. Not a bad prospect. I am not afraid. In the meantime, let me close my eyes and sense the beauty around me. And take that breath under the dark sky full of stars. Breathe in. Breathe out. That's all."
          -Mira Furlan

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          • #6
            Quoth Ghel View Post
            ... need to collect from her, it shouldn’t be too hard.
            Just tip her out of the dumpster?
            I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
            Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
            Derails threads faster than a pocket nuke.

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            • #7
              People like this completely ruin things for people who genuinely need a break.

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