re: Over Charged $40 from Bar last weekend

Burn the place down.

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It’s on a debit card. One charge is finalized. The other 2 are showing pending

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you must not frequent bars a lot. The pending charges are going to go away.

I used my debit card to grab a beer once and was charged over $2500. When the bar tender was putting in tips, they accidentally typed in some crazy number. No way they were just trying to steal....it was an absurd number and I knew the bar tender through other people. As a college student, it over-drafted my account. Bar quickly fixed it on their end and the bank waved fees when I explained the situation to them.

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I don't use a debit card but don't you have to enter a pin for every transaction? If so, then either you're an idiot and didn't pay attention to the total or the bartender has your pin.

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no

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Unless, I think, your card is a debit/credit card in which case the transactions would be rung up as credit and now you have dispute options.

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This is true. It would have to be run as credit so the same protections apply.

I used to go to the Londoner fairly frequently and if I used a card of any time I would always get 3 separate charges. None of them would be for the correct amount. A week later all 3 of the charges would drop off my account and the correct one would appear.

I think some bars just use this billing system that has a shitty overkill method of pinging an account.

I wonder how many times I've been annihilated at a bar in college and been overcharged and just assumed the next day I legitimately spent that much at the bar.

I bet its in the triple digits

Are you a teenager or a grown man?

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$30 charge, a 10$ charge, and another $20 charge

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One charge is finalized. The other 2 are showing pending

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You must not open tabs very often. Assuming the $20 charge was the one that was finalized since that was your final tab....

The $10 charge was most likely to hold your card open as that is the minimum for most cards.

The $30 charge was probably an error when they inputted your actual $20 charge and the $10 hold (or the bar has an archaic system that does this automatically).

$20 charge was legit.

Call the bank.

Most adults could figure this out on their own.

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So I went to a bar/cocktail house on Friday night and ordered a bud light and bourbon/sprite for the Mrs.

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I check my bank account this morning and there is a $30 charge, a 10$ charge, and another $20 charge.

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Let me guess, Gold Mine