Lesson learned
Lesson learned
#1Lesson 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.
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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
#1re: Lesson learned
Posted: 11/14/06 at 4:48pmThis 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.
#2re: Lesson learned
Posted: 11/14/06 at 4:56pmYet Chase wouldn't cash a check my mother wrote me when she had the date wrong by one month.
#3re: 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.
#4re: Lesson learned
Posted: 11/14/06 at 5:31pm
"I don't care who you are. No payment, no cake."
Words to live by...
#6re: Lesson learned
Posted: 11/14/06 at 6:07pmWear a condom...
--Aristotle
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#7re: 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.
#8re: Lesson learned
Posted: 11/14/06 at 6:43pmMister Matt, I think I might just have myself a new signature!!
#9re: Lesson learned
Posted: 11/14/06 at 8:08pmnever wear mauve to a ball
#10re: 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.
#11re: Lesson learned
Posted: 11/14/06 at 8:13pmyes, or no Prince(ss) for you!!!
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#13re: 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.
#14re: Lesson learned
Posted: 11/14/06 at 8:23pmDG - talk about a lesson I need to learn!
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