Originally Posted by Points Scrounger
Sure -- I find knowingly using a false date-of-transaction to be fraud. We're talking about almost a year later. Don't you think they have responsibility for putting through charges in a timely manner? Or is it really okay to screw up big time, and decide "Well, we'll just put these rock-hard-stale-charges through as today's date, and hope for the best"?
Not really. At my last position, the operations manager got locked out of the credit card machine and couldn't settle out. After 30 days, the charges that were approved automatically got credited back. I had to contact every client (300+) to inform them that a new charge would be going back. The weird thing is she didn't realize it until 2-3 months later. Regardless, just say for example you submit a check and the payee doesn't cash it for 4 months or 1 year you still owe the amount payable. If anything, you got a free tax free loan for 1 year!
Annoying, yes. Illegal, no.