Originally Posted by
joshua362
My colleague had a week long reward stay at a RI, presented a Debit card at check-in for "incidentals" and had $2000 taken out of his checking account at Christmas time. Checks went a bouncing and it took weeks to clean up.
They didn't take anything out from the debit card but rather authorized the amount that would cover the stay and then some extra.
Hopefully your friend learned a lesson. Only an idiot would use a debit card to pay anyway.
