I understand returned payment fees for checks, but I’ve never been charged for having a credit card decline.

Stupid of me to sign up for auto-payment when I use my credit card for gas, I guess.

  • nogooduser@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    It’s your responsibility to manage your finances, not theirs. It’s bullshit that they’d even consider any method of processing payments other than first come, first served.

    • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.com
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      3 hours ago

      Yeah, but consider it as a holdover from when people used to pay with these things called checks (cheques) that would only have a date not an exact time stamp and instant electronic processing. The bank would receive a stack of them you paid on Saturday, but they wouldn’t know when exactly.

      It was still nonsense that would cause as many overdraft fees as possible to punish the poor, but they didn’t have a way to say who was truly first.