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I miss paying by check
Sportsterleroy:
--- Quote from: dilligaf on January 02, 2015, 07:23:19 AM ---You pay Joe Eish by check. ;-T He ships your parts along with the bill. By todays standards, about as old fashion as you can get. And trusting your customers to pay. Now that is old fashion. :BEER: Matt
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I would get parts from Joe or Ida May and set the bill on the table. About a week later I would think, "Did I pay this" and sent a second check. We all know Ida May has no Accounting set up for credits, so she was not a happy camper when I did that.
I now have Eish set up in my checking acct in Bill Payer like the gas bill. Grab the bill and find his name imput the amount and use the computer as soon as I get it.
Leroy in Cleveland
Sheepdog:
Yeah, I really miss trying to figure out how much cash I needed for the weekend and waiting in a long line at the bank after work on friday to get it...NOT!
Caffeineo:
I try to use a cash back credit card for everything. Used to go to the ATM and get cash to pay for stuff but figured I could get a small % back by using the CC. After the first year I got just over $300 and they sent me an offer for a 5% CC. Of course this only works if you pay in full every month. ;D
Mark West:
I don't miss writing checks one bit but still like to get paper bills as they are just a lot easier for me to read and check. I just pay them with the bill pay feature at my bank. Once you set up a payee, its about as easy as checking email. You can even have them send a check to people or companies that don't take credit cards like a private contractor, babysitter, or whatever.
One thing I don't do is give a company my credit card for auto paying anything. Wife did that with the phone company and all of a sudden, we started getting a lot of incorrect charges; each one requiring a lot of phone time to get rid of. Naturally they make it a royal PITA to get rid of that feature. Once we did the billing errors seemed to go away. Coincidence?
donn:
Checks might be coming back, ever so slightly anyway. A few years ago I thought a checkbook was going to be an anachronism like typewriters etc., but ... for example, at the band instrument repair place around the corner, they'll suggest that a check would be nice. Because whatever the risk of it bouncing, that's apparently worth it in light of how much the finance companies eat out of your revenue when you take a card.
When I have a large grocery haul at the food co-op, I tear out a blank check. They run it through a little scanner/printer gizmo that fills it out and records it, and hand it back to me, and I sign in the same gizmo that I would have with a card. Faster than cash, and no percentage cut to the finance companies.
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