I received a bill for $0.00

[bluestateguy]

Yesterday I received a bill for $0.00 from my bank, with whom I have a Visa card that I never use. The bill has a due date of 10/23.

I've heard urban legends about this before: people getting bills for $0.00, ignoring them, and then getting late notices.

[_testify_]

1. Send them a check for $.01, just to be safe.

[Haole Girl]

5. Or, better yet, a check for $.00

:rofl:

[Dangerously Amused]

7. Yep, that's what I'd do.

The bill, the check for $0.00, and a short, hand-written note asking for a receipt.

[dpbrown]

8. You'll DEFINITELY want a receipt

:rofl:

[Dangerously Amused]

9. Hell yeah. In case I get audited or something.

Heya dp, haven't seen you around much lately. How goes?



:hi:

[dpbrown]

19. Hella busy lately...

...oh target of my unrequited adoration...

:loveya:

[Dangerously Amused]

21. "Unrequited"?

The hell you say!



:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:
:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:
:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[dpbrown]

23. I asked my little activist to play a song for you...

I hope you like it... :)

[Dangerously Amused]

25. Oh my goodness, she is soooo adorable!

I want to scoop her up and dance her around the room! What a beauty!


And I looove my song, thank you!


:loveya:



(Keep the baby pictures coming!)


:7

[SOteric]

2. Pay up, Deadbeat, -

or we'll send Guido over to mess up your tires. :rofl:

[Reverend_Smitty]

3. what a clever way to mess up your credit raiting...

I gotta hand it to them, they're good

[Parche]

4. bill

You dont want to be nickle and dimed to death

[AtomicKitten]

6. I'll trade you.

I got a closing bill from AT&T for $20,000 when I changed carriers after the eavesdropping without a warrant "thing." They decided to arbitrarily change my flat-rate business line and bill me retroactively.

[MrCoffee]

10. pay it ya cheapskate.

[sfdiva]

11. xerox a copy before you send it in

[qnr]

12. Made me think of a story by one of my favorite SF authors.

Funny thing was, while looking for an online copy of it, I ended up on one of the sites I check frequently because it deals with another of my favorite things:
http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc2/showpage.php?page=133

[conscious evolution]

13. My dadf got a bill like this once.

He sent a check for $0.00.Couple of weeks later he got a letter thanking him for paying promptly.

[begin_within]

14. Ted Leitner used to tell a funny story about that on his radio show.

The way he told it was hilarious, I wish I could remember the exact wording. He got a bill for $0.00, so he wrote a check for $0.00, and a couple of weeks later someone called him from the company, telling him that his payment messed up their computer system in some way, and they weren't happy about it. That was the essence of the story, but the way Ted told it was a panic. I don't think Ted has his own radio show at this time, he has been doing Padres games, but not his own talk show this year. But if you were to somehow contact him, he might be able to tell you.

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/team/broadcasters.jsp?c_id=sd

http://www.marklarson.com/speakers/spkr_bio/leitner.htm

[hatredisnotavalue]

15. I've gotten two calls from MCI this month for an overdue bill of $.84

Funny my second line bill from MCI has a credit of $.84.

[pitohui]

16. urban legends are just that, i often get bills for 0.00

nothing bad happens except after a few months if i don't rack up any real bills the bank or credit card company gets bored and decides not to waste any more paper telling me i have a zero balance

[Anarcho-Socialist]

17. Why not pay double or triple that just to be nice?

;-)

[RedCloud]

18. Take out a refinance loan to pay it off..

Those guys are desperate for any type of deal. If that doesn't work see if Chapter 5? 7? whatever the number is, will accept you.

[bridgit]

20. well you better pay it or it will go against your credit worthyness...

:rofl:

[youthere]

22. I get one like that from CapitolOne every month.

I just throw it away, I've never had anything happen to me and I've done it for years.

[ileus]

24. I received a bill for -58.25

From where we rented a 7 ton dumpster when we sold our house. Come to think of it they still owe me my 58 bucks....thanks for reminding me.

[Presidentcokedupfratboy]

26. You better pay it.

Those late charges are a killer.

Seriously, though, that is bizarre.

[Tracer]

27. Every month, for the past five years ...

... I get a bill, addressed to my son, from American Express for $6.84.

Said son hasn't had an AMEX account for at least 10 years.

I tell him to pay the stupid thing, just to get them to stop sending the bills. But he refuses, and damned if I'll pay it.

The odd thing is that there are never any late charges attached to the amount.

[China_cat]

28. Wait till you get one from the bank for an account

you cancelled 2 years before. Took us almost a year to straighten that out and convince them we didn't owe over $100k in overdraft charges (charged every day for nsf and 3 other charges.)

[Dukkha]

29. i once got a royalty check for $0.13

I saved it to show everyone what a starving artist I am.

[NoPasaran]

30. I got a bill for $0.00 just last month from Sprint

They said it was a "courtesy".

And I once got a check for ten cents because my mortage company said there was too much money in my escrow account.

[ComerPerro]

31. we DUers should take up a collection for you. I can contribute $0.00

who else can match my contribution?

C'mon DU, dig deep!

[quiet.american]

32. When I ignored a $0.00 bill, I got overdue notices saying I owed $0.00.

Go figure.