I transferred funds from one investment company to another and somehow ended up with one cent left in the account. They could not close without sending me a check; took it to my bank and asked the teller. “ Aren’t you going to ask me how I want the funds?”, She said , “What do you mean, it’s a penny?” I said, “Heads or tails.”
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Hi Mike.
Dang.
If you hadn’t cashed the check you would screw their accounting up. Can’t close out you account until the check is processed. I have a check from a business bankruptcy I refused to cash. Was held in contempt by the judge who handed the bankruptcy. The check was for .24 I kept it as a reminder to not let customers get to far in debt to me.
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lol. How does that happen?
I've had something like that happen after closing a utility when moving. Make sure it is the final bill before I close out I said. Couple months later I'm getting late notice for less than $3
Let's spend $100 in labor and materials to send a check for $0.01, working as intended.
Got a tax return check of 1.00 once. No expiration date. Held it for a few years. Ended up costing me bad check penalties
Way back in the 1970's, Mount Union only had 6 incoming telephone lines for faculty and staff use. So, you had to dial 9 for an outside line before making a call. The business manager, known to squeeze every last cent until it squealed, sent out a memo asking faculty to pay for each personal call that they made on Mount Union's phone line. The price was 9 cents per call. A friend in the Business Department wrote Mount Union a check for 9 cents, after calculating that it would cost them nearly a dollar to cash it.
One Saturday at the casino, I had a bad day at the poker table. After calling it quits, I walked to the cage with a handful of white $1.00 chips. When I handed them to the cashier, I asked her for all big bills.
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my parents had overpaid a phone bill by 12 cents while living in Brisbane Australia for two years.
The phone company then proceeded to airmail notices to my parents for the next 4 years that they had 12 cents in credit on account...
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So....... What are you going to do with your big check? I can see a TW order on the horizon.
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Hi Mike.
I can top that. Early on when I got my first checking account I had to write a check for 0 $'s and 0 cents to get a company to quit sending me a statement saying I owed $0.00 & payment was past due. Multiple phone calls & people agreeing that I owed nothing didn't fix it. I even got a receipt for that $0.00 payment in the mail after they got the check !
Forty years ago I could have split a Schraffts two cent mint with you!Originally Posted by Rider99XX
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We’ve gotten several of those for stupid amounts for .8 and .15 cents or some nonsense. I told my wife it cost more to mail than its worth. Got one from the treasury for .37 cents for an overage on payroll deposit for my business.
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When cells first came out my employer gave me a cell phone and said "You must pay for personal calls." So, one day I was working late and had no other way to call my wife and called her.
Now, they had to have someone (paid employee) go over the phone bills and determine if each person had any personal calls. They found mine and said I owed the company $ .25.
I wrote a check for $.25. Between the employee that analyzed the phone bills and the processing of a $ .25 check (or checks, I'm sure it wasn't just me), it cost the employer hundreds each month, because they were afraid the employees may reap a small benefit.
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I used to get very small dividend checks for $1 to $2 dollars on some stock I had. I didn`t cash them for a while and received a letter from the company to cash them because it was screwing up their books.
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