pelorus
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posted on January 24, 2004 08:18:21 AM new
Here's a first. Buyer sends me a check, his handwriting is so bad that I absolutely can't read the amount in numbers or written out. Think I will take the correct amount off the WBN and doctor the handwriting so the bank will take it.
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WrightByDesign
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posted on January 24, 2004 08:34:43 AM new
I wouldn't. Not worth the risk, some states especially Ar,Ca consider that fraud. The writer of the check has recourse if he hasn't initialed changes.
Have him/her rewrite check or at least give some permission thru email with sig. attached. Up to you, good luck.
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stopwhining
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posted on January 24, 2004 08:47:29 AM new
may be your bank can decipher bad numbers and bad handwriting.
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bunnicula
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posted on January 24, 2004 08:55:53 AM new
I'd just email your buyer & explain the problem. Ask them to send another, legible, check. Mail the "bad" check back to them with their item.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there --Clare Booth Luce
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auctionACE
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posted on January 24, 2004 09:04:09 AM new
I hate it when you ask for their street address when you inform them that they won so you can create a shipping label to save time and they do not do so. Then they send a money order that you can not hope to read and you have to email them and ask for their address again.
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paloma91
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posted on January 24, 2004 09:28:07 AM new
Oh I have one of those too. The money order I received is either too little for bid price plus priority shipping or too much for bid price and parcel post shipping. I am going to email the buyer to see what's up
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beatnikera
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posted on January 24, 2004 11:08:00 AM new
I hate it when someone sends me a
US Postal Money Order (my favorite
form of payment) and when I examine
the money order it has a different
name written on it crossed-off and
in it's place my name.
The post office I go to here in
Chicago will not cash them stating
it's been 'altered' even though the
buyer initialed the error. I then have
to email the buyer to have them
mail out a new M.O. or pay me
online instead.
[ edited by beatnikera on Jan 24, 2004 11:09 AM ]
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Libra63
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posted on January 24, 2004 12:23:30 PM new
As a parttime cashier I have encountered checks that were unable to be read. There is one customer that comes in frequently and has MS and always writes a check. Nothing but lines. We take it, and when we cancell it it does have the amount of the transaction. So maybe to the buyer it is able to be read. What that buyer needs to do is go to the bank and get a bank money order where they type in the amount.
Now I have famile tremors and there is sometimes I cannot read my writing so it does happen. People feel bad for me, I just laugh. This is what I inherited from my mother. Great Mom! Sometimes I cannot read my name but my checks are cashed. I would take your check to the bank and see what they have to say. Someone just might be able to make out what is written.
Good Luck.
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WrightByDesign
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posted on January 24, 2004 12:35:24 PM new
Well, looks like you got some good advice. I am a Geriatric Nurse and I run into that a lot. Thats why I said not to alter it. I would take it to the bank first, no use offended a paying customer. Then email the person if not accepted.
Think thats bad, try deciphering Drs. handwriting every day LOL Good luck!
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pelorus
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posted on January 24, 2004 01:51:05 PM new
Thanks for the advice. I will take the check to the bank with the WBN notice and see if that convinces the teller that he/she can read the check.
I'm still tempted to add a couple of tiny lines to the writing on the check that will make the amount legible.
How about this: Once I got a check on which the written amount was smaller than the numbered amount. I told the teller just to give me the smaller amount. She said she couldn't do that. If the written number was bigger she could give out the smaller amount, but not the other way around. Go figure.
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pointy
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posted on January 24, 2004 04:05:29 PM new
How much money is involved?
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