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Lesson learned

Posted: 11/14/06 at 4:43pm

Never send a payment by mistake to the wrong company. They will gladly accept your money, but you'll have the hardest time getting it back.

Last month, while paying my bills, by mistake I sent my wireless bill to Verizon Northwest instead of Verizon Wireless. I closed that account over a year ago when I decided to get rid of my landline all together, but stupidly enough I never took it off my on-line bill pay system.

Interestingly enough, Verizon NW had no trouble accepting the payment. However, I've been on the phone with them for over 2 hours, because the acct. has been closed for so long the acct. rep can't access it to issue me a refund. Go figure.

Anyway... lesson learned the hard way.

Any lessons you've learned you'd like to share?

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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch

re: Lesson learned

Posted: 11/14/06 at 4:48pm

This just reminds me when I was living in NYC and was CD shopping at HMV and I wrote the check out to Tower Records!! The check still went through, and I can't believe the cashier didn't even notice my mistake.

Hey Dottie! Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany

re: Lesson learned

Posted: 11/14/06 at 4:56pm

Yet Chase wouldn't cash a check my mother wrote me when she had the date wrong by one month.

re: Lesson learned

Posted: 11/14/06 at 5:19pm

A flakey friend of mine in DC ordered a cake for a party. It wasn't some piddly birthday cake, he wanted it to be 3 tiers (which I worked on until 2am). He said the money for the cake would be at the front desk of his building. When I delivered the cake, there was no check to be found. So I called him and he said he didn't leave a check because he wanted to pay me in cash. How convenient as he wasn't home. Long story short, it took two weeks and numerous phonecalls to actually get payment from him, which after all this ended up being a check!!! I ran right over to his bank and cashed the thing.

Lesson: Cash only. I don't care who you are. No payment, no cake.

Hey Dottie! Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany

Updated On: 11/14/06 at 05:19 PM

re: Lesson learned

Posted: 11/14/06 at 5:31pm

"I don't care who you are. No payment, no cake."

Words to live by...

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

re: Lesson learned

Posted: 11/14/06 at 5:59pm

hmmm... cake...

re: Lesson learned

Posted: 11/14/06 at 6:07pm

Wear a condom...

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

re: Lesson learned

Posted: 11/14/06 at 6:28pm

"I don't believe anything til I see it" should apply to relationships forged on the internet.

re: Lesson learned

Posted: 11/14/06 at 6:43pm

Mister Matt, I think I might just have myself a new signature!!

Hey Dottie! Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany

#10

re: Lesson learned

Posted: 11/14/06 at 8:08pm

never wear mauve to a ball

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956

#11

re: Lesson learned

Posted: 11/14/06 at 8:11pm

Or glass slippers that don't fit properly.

Oh wait - DO wear glass slippers that don't fit properly. That's it.

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

Updated On: 11/14/06 at 08:11 PM

#12

re: Lesson learned

Posted: 11/14/06 at 8:13pm

yes, or no Prince(ss) for you!!!

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956

#13

re: Lesson learned

Posted: 11/14/06 at 8:20pm

Please - we all know Rath goes for the Queens

#14

re: Lesson learned

Posted: 11/14/06 at 8:22pm

I vow never to lend money again.

I should be getting 60$, 30$, 25$, 10$ all from separate people. The 30$, 25$, and 10$ things were probably over 2 years ago.

I'm still hoping for the 60$ which was like 9 months ago.

And then this acting scam thing has 800$ of my money- don't even ask about that. It's called a nightmare.

"How bout a little black dress?"~hannahshule "I have a penis, not a vagina." ~munkustrap178

#15

re: Lesson learned

Posted: 11/14/06 at 8:23pm

DG - talk about a lesson I need to learn!

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

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