The Blog-Ethicist: Machine Error in Your Favor, Part 2
You're pumping gas as a station and happen to hit the $75 pump limit, so you leave without a full tank. At the same gas station, your spouse is filling your other vehicle to the $75 limit. The credit card charge goes through like normal. But then, a few days later, your bank cancels one of the charges. Presumably because it thought that it was a duplicate charge.
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posted by M S Martinez at 6/14/2011 03:04:00 PM
7 Comments:
your cars hold $75 of gas?
wouldn't have guessed.
who do we think is getting the short end of the stick here? the gas station or the credit card company?
i'd be more inclined to care if i were shorting the gas station, if the credit card company's policies make them their own prey this once, they kinda deserve it.
you would think the mighty costco would not have this type of problem in this electronic age?
I don't think that my cars hold $75 worth of gas combined.
I think the gas station, a local company, got the short end of the stick.
I'd be more inclined it I were somehow shorting the credit card company.
if you do try to resolve this i would set the over/under for number of minutes spent on the phone before resolution at 55.
although i guess you could try an email.
dammit claire. . .
Wouldn't the credit card be footing the bill for this transaction? Gas station presumably already got the funds. Isn't this all covered by the CC transaction fee?
Coincidentally, I was thinking of the Blog-Ethicist last week when I found a iPad sitting atop a urinal.
WWHWD?
A: gross.
B: take it, and sanitize it. that type of behavior should be punished.
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