[TechAssist] Re: bad checks??
- From: Jim Myers <jr.myers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:18:01 -0500
One way to avoid these problems is to contact TeleCheck and get set up
to use their service, convert checks to electronic checks on the spot
AND a guarantee, if a check bounces call customer and tell them it is
being mailed the next morning unless they make it good with cash plus
25.00 or whatever your state law allows, they'll probably be right in!
Then if not send it in and TeleCheck reimburses you for the face amount.
Maybe even the 25.00 check fee, I'm not sure any more and haven't had to
send any in. The plus side to this is you don't even have to take the
check to the bank to deposit it, it is handled just like your credit
card batches. Even though it is still a check and still can bounce most
customers think it comes out of their account as soon as they walk out
the door so they think it's too late to stop payment. When I hand the
check back to the customer after the terminal processes it most of them
are pleased, or some say "gee, I could have just used my debit card" and
I say "yup, same thing" even though it is not the same because a debit
card DOES debit their account right away.
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Since 1972
Jim Myers
Telrad Electronics
Fort Wayne, Indiana
larry wrote:
> i had an experience i didnt know how to solve.
> i repaired a tv, customer picked up and paid 75 with check.
> 10 days later i get a letter from my bank saying they withdrew
> the 75 from my account because the check was stop payment.
> i called the customer and would always be told the man wasnt home,
> finally i did talk to him a week later.
> he said he stooped payment because he didnt think it was good
> enough picture.
> i said why didnt you call me , or bring it back , so i could
> make it right.
> at least let me have my parts back.
> he said no.
> and that i should take him to court for the 75 if i like. and
> hung up.
> i contacted my attorney, who said forget it , you been screwed.
> the set probably works fine and he knows you cant afford to
> sue him.
> and since then i found that he could have also stooped payment
> on a credit card if he had used one.
> are there any answers to this type of problem???
> Larry
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