Carrie's Random Thoughts

Monday, September 19, 2005

This is outrageous- I found out that if you buy gas with your debit card lately, that due to high gas prices some gas stations have been putting a 75$ hold on your account becuase it takes three days sometimes for the transaction to go through, and since they have to approve your account beforehand, they are taking more to make sure you have it all. I saw this on the news, and it was a workingclass family that was getting gas on the Labor Day weekend, so they couldn't buy food for their kids an extra day because of banks being closed and their account said it was overdrawn even though it shouldn't have been. This is ridiculous to me, if you can't do the transaction right then, or are not willing to trust that the money is there, then you shouldn't allow ATM/Debit transactions! 75$ for gas, whats up with that?

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