They won't. I have worked in a payment processing center. Either the person will manually enter some fake number into the computer to mess with him.. say 300 dollars (which the bank will honor because the bank takes the payment amounts from the company and not the check..) or more likely it will get sent to the billing department for review. At that point it will most likely end up getting sent back along with a 20+ dollar processing fee.. not to mention the late fees and the ding that gets sent to the credit bureau. The check was funny, but this guy is only proving how stupid he is.
The check was fed into a sorting machine. Even though the OCR part won't recognize the symbols, it will pass the check down the track and, as a part of the "sort", will endorse the back of the check. That is "accepting" the check. Since the system won't recognize the check's symbols it will flag the check for an actual person to look at the amount and key it into the system. That's where the fun will begin. There is no way Verizon will be able to submit this for payment to any bank. But without posting it to a bank there is no way for the customer to prove he payed the bill either. Guess who's going to win the standoff. The best thing for him to do is hope he can talk some idiot at Verizon into faxing him a copy of the check front and back. Then he can prove that they "accepted" the check. Usual disclaimers...blah..blah. "I'm not a lawyer, don't play one on TV, but I DO hate Verizon...."
You really shouldn't end a sentence with a preposition, so the title is kind of wrong...I guess. Should be "For how much was this check written?" Or cheque. (Which, btw, Firefox's built in spell checker says cheque is wrong.) ::shrug::
@Thor: Funny you should mention that -- about 2 weeks ago Cingular sent me a little pamphlet that says by continuing service with them I cannot be part of a class action lawsuit, I have to directly sue them if I wish to do something like that. This pisses me off because I can see soon all corporations will force similar agreements if you wish to do business with them, they knowing that a vast majority of clients dont have the frustration, time or money to take them on directly.
I'm proud of u diggers, even though I'm not sure any of you are correct...you have shown the digg community that we are intelligent beings who take time to research the topic thoroughly, we don't just digg for fun or because some other people have dugg it...-traviscaruth
sunsetterJan 2, 2007
Quick, someone do the Laplace Transform!
numbJan 2, 2007
@iamcitizen"There's the guy that made it."When I saw the check the first thing I thought of was this comic:<a class="user" href="http://xkcd.com/c179.html">http://xkcd.com/c179.html</a>
gatesophileJan 2, 2007
damn English language and it's multiple correct spellings of words....
Closed AccountJan 2, 2007
They won't. I have worked in a payment processing center. Either the person will manually enter some fake number into the computer to mess with him.. say 300 dollars (which the bank will honor because the bank takes the payment amounts from the company and not the check..) or more likely it will get sent to the billing department for review. At that point it will most likely end up getting sent back along with a 20+ dollar processing fee.. not to mention the late fees and the ding that gets sent to the credit bureau. The check was funny, but this guy is only proving how stupid he is.
anotherleashJan 2, 2007
The check was fed into a sorting machine. Even though the OCR part won't recognize the symbols, it will pass the check down the track and, as a part of the "sort", will endorse the back of the check. That is "accepting" the check. Since the system won't recognize the check's symbols it will flag the check for an actual person to look at the amount and key it into the system. That's where the fun will begin. There is no way Verizon will be able to submit this for payment to any bank. But without posting it to a bank there is no way for the customer to prove he payed the bill either. Guess who's going to win the standoff. The best thing for him to do is hope he can talk some idiot at Verizon into faxing him a copy of the check front and back. Then he can prove that they "accepted" the check. Usual disclaimers...blah..blah. "I'm not a lawyer, don't play one on TV, but I DO hate Verizon...."
Closed AccountJan 2, 2007
You really shouldn't end a sentence with a preposition, so the title is kind of wrong...I guess. Should be "For how much was this check written?" Or cheque. (Which, btw, Firefox's built in spell checker says cheque is wrong.) ::shrug::
koickJan 3, 2007
@Thor: Funny you should mention that -- about 2 weeks ago Cingular sent me a little pamphlet that says by continuing service with them I cannot be part of a class action lawsuit, I have to directly sue them if I wish to do something like that. This pisses me off because I can see soon all corporations will force similar agreements if you wish to do business with them, they knowing that a vast majority of clients dont have the frustration, time or money to take them on directly.
sirberusJan 4, 2007
The best part will be when they cash that check, and the drop-out working at the bank has to take a guess on how much to take from the account.
traviscaruthJan 6, 2007
I'm proud of u diggers, even though I'm not sure any of you are correct...you have shown the digg community that we are intelligent beings who take time to research the topic thoroughly, we don't just digg for fun or because some other people have dugg it...-traviscaruth