Happy

Please read the following directly copied from a Chase letter that came with a refund check (from normal refund that had sit in account for 3 months with no activity so a check was auto-sent.)

Enclosed please find a credit balance refund check to reimburse you for the current credit balance on your account. Please understand that if the credit balance was due to an overpayment made for your full account balance and the refund was requested in the middle of your billing cycle, you may receive a statement for subsequent interest charges assessed from the date of your previous statement until the date your full payment was received.

I have no inclination to find out exactly what the above wording may mean and how it would affect you if you intentionally overpay your Chase CC, then request the overpayment the following month mid cycle. Those who still want to try can report back the actual outcome for the benefit of the community.

samnc0

Ok...I will review the BB notices and procedures on their website. I did read it and it did confuse me some, and it sounds like the program is still in flux some.

Happy

Both your daughter and your sister need to at least learn how to balance their check books - the 1st baby step towards managing their fiances.

One of the big mistake people committed, usually by men (husband), is to handle all the finance matter for their wives - once the loving husband passed away, the poor wife suddenly found herself has absolutely no knowledge / ability on how to handle even the day to day bill pay, have no credit card under her own name, life suddenly becomes overwhelmingly complicated because all her life was sheltered by her loving husband because she was not good in handling numbers... Too many such sob stories I have seen over the course of my profession. You will not live forever to help your daughter or your sister... They would need to learn how to handle it on their own. Good Luck.

Happy

It would be of some value if both of you would at least give basic information of your locations where Walgreen acts more like CVS.

Without at least the city's name, such info is largely useless for those folks who have no CVS in their cities. just sayin.

nwflyboy

They could also learn the meaning of "JUDICIALLY" - a word they called out as something they suggested others needed to take careful note of....

Happy

How is the Von's receipt look like?

You can certainly dispute the $7.50 from BB.

Though I think people need to understand the difference between a debit card and a credit card - when you try to pay with your debit card, the allowed amount of payment is limited by the available balance unless you have overdraft feature on the debit card (if from a normal bank account and you opted for such protection).

It is the account holder's responsibility to keep track of the account balance. BB or not BB. Any bank account.

If you use a debit card that is from your normal bank account which has only $7.50 in it, your transaction would go thru but you would also incur may be $20 overdraft fee plus interest ... assuming you have opted for overdraft protection (so your bills would not bounce in case you forget to keep track of your account balance but write checks whether paper or electronic, to pay your bills...)

Consider yourself lucky to learn something with just $7.50 tuition.

Happy

Took about a week for mine to arrive - ordered on 11/07.

gardengirl

Oh it should be judiciously! HaHaHa. Heard recently that we see the first and the last letters to a word and can decipher it without the middle being spelled correctly. Obviously an example to prove the case.

But that's just an added tidbit to an otherwise lengthy thread about another subject.

EL3V3N

very relevant actually, thx for the datapoint.

UpstatePoints

To get this thread back on track, I found beans at both cvs I went into in upstate NY. No problems at the register. PM me for exact locations, but doesn't seem to be a problem just north of albany.

particlemn

Any thoughts on keeping vr to bb at only 4000 per month, I just wonder if each month I load max 5 k if it might add scrutiney

Mrgolfer21

I'm seeing some posts (and MMS has encouraged) people to go to OD and buy the visa gift cards and then buy beans at cvs or walgreens. While this works (sometimes) has anybody been successful is buying Amex gc's and then buying beans with them at cvs or walgreens? given bigcrumbs is giving 1.88% back on purchases with no fees, i'm going to be a little heavy on the amex gc side come next week when the arrive. I would normally liquidate through WP, but if somebody has had success with beans, i might do a half and half thing to limit the hit i take from WP.

amolkold

I haven't tried it myself but I will if my CCs from my last churn arrive on Monday. If you have an Ink, it makes more sense to buy the GCs at an office store with the 5x, but other cards would make sense with Amex/BC.

And maybe I'm having a brain-fart, but WP?

Mrgolfer21

WP is williampaid. I got in early, so my cost is only 2.45%, if you sign up now, it is 2.95%. Can only send max $5K per month though. I agree, 5x is better, but with the BC's deal, i liked the idea of getting 10K spg points for max out of pocket of $57 without driving anywhere.

amolkold

You haven't had problems using a SPG AMEX to buy Amex gift cards? No FR?