They are closing everybody's account and sent me this check for my balance.....by FedEx.
Should I cash this check or frame it for stupidity?
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would cost less to deposit than to frame
It's your souvenir for these famous saying "Not worth the paper it's printed on".
I'd cash it...it took the company that wrote it way more to write it.
I once had to go through an extensive process to pay my company back for a ~$3.00 toothbrush I bought on a business trip. I can promise you, all the emails, effort, high ups, etc. that had to get involved were WAAAAAY more expensive than the $3 I spent on a "personal item". I even got a receipt from the company that I used to have hanging from my cube.
I once had to go through an extensive process to pay my company back for a ~$3.00 toothbrush I bought on a business trip. I can promise you, all the emails, effort, high ups, etc. that had to get involved were WAAAAAY more expensive than the $3 I spent on a "personal item". I even got a receipt from the company that I used to have hanging from my cube.
Any lawyer that would sue over a client's one cent should be disbarred for wasting the courts time.
Wow. Once my dad made a call on a pay phone that didn’t go through and he immediately called the customer service number on the phone to get a refund. They sent something like a check for 25 cents but even more on postage to send it. But nothing that low.
Write a non-critical essay on it and publish it in The New Yorker.
Start each chapter with a human description of the day....... in your life and that of the issuing institution and anyone else.
The stationery delivery man could wonder how many millions of dollars were going to be inked on his goods.
Include a brilliant description of the regulation which spawned the adjustment/payment. Similarly, provide cost analysis of transferring the check data to the printer and printing the check, processing the mailing and postage.
The day you stroll into the bank to deposit the check could start Part II.
I'd deposit it as it would tally up as a completed operation. Assuming the issuing institution treated you OK back whenever you did business, I'd cooperate.
Start each chapter with a human description of the day....... in your life and that of the issuing institution and anyone else.
The stationery delivery man could wonder how many millions of dollars were going to be inked on his goods.
Include a brilliant description of the regulation which spawned the adjustment/payment. Similarly, provide cost analysis of transferring the check data to the printer and printing the check, processing the mailing and postage.
The day you stroll into the bank to deposit the check could start Part II.
I'd deposit it as it would tally up as a completed operation. Assuming the issuing institution treated you OK back whenever you did business, I'd cooperate.
I'm sure it costs my bank a lot more than the check, if I deposit it.
If they had issued it as a standard check, I'd not cash it. If I'm not mistaken, after a period of time, they'll catch it that it's still not been cashed/cleared which remains "open" in their books. I'm not an accountant but I think it's something like that.... With a cashier's check, I believe it is "closed" on their end once they write that check.
Wow I didn't know that was really your name! I would cash it just for that company to report it if they even bother with it. It would make the banking institution furious if there were hundreds of thousands of 1 cent payments on their book of statements.
Free Bernie Madoff, lol.
Seriously, once you place arbitrary standards in the law, the law becomes meaningless, and overtime unenforceable.
So you're NOT Joe King?
That's not really stupid, just legality.
I had one coworker framing a bonus check for $10.15 USD in the office. Obviously he felt offended as his base salary is 150k
I had one coworker framing a bonus check for $10.15 USD in the office. Obviously he felt offended as his base salary is 150k
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I'm not real smart, but I'd frame it for stupidity.
I don't remember how many years ago it was, online, I saw an article about a Ford Shelby Mustang that sold at auction for millions. I don't remember how many millions, but the only "claim to fame" that THIS particular Mustang had was that it was the #1 Shelby Ford Mustang to roll off the assembly line, it belonged to Carroll Shelby.
At the time, (we lived in the State of Missouri), Missouri had a law that for anyone who purchases a new (to them) car, you have 30 days to transfer the title, or pay a title penalty of $50 per month, up to a maximum of $200.
I told my wife that anyone who could write a check for $$millions, could care less about a silly $200 fine. I would frame that title with Carroll Shelby's autograph and hang it on the garage wall next to the car.
I would regard your check as a monument to stupidity and hang it on the wall somewhere; but the check is made out to you, not me, so do as you see fit.
No he was just joking
