• rozodru@piefed.world
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    2 months ago

    apologies I just don’t understand how. If I tried to pay with something with my account, regardless of what bank it was, and even if I was $5 short the payment would just be declined. Sorry I just don’t get it.

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      2 months ago

      Bro have you never had a pre-authorized payment? My payments go out the day I get paid, but I don’t get paid till the afternoon, my account will be in the negative untill I get paid. If I don’t deposit money by midnight the payment bounces back and I incure a NSF from my bank.

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        2 months ago

        yes I have pre-auth payments and if I don’t have the money in my account they just don’t go through.

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          2 months ago

          That’s weird to me, but I’ve also been banking with my bank for over 20 years now plus it’s a credit union so maybe it’s different for me because of one of those things. A $45 NSF fee sucks man.

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            2 months ago

            yeah I didn’t mean my previous comments to be offensive or anything because I’ve generally never had a NSF fee and I use to be fairly broke fairly often. things either got paid or they didn’t. if there wasn’t enough money in the account well the transaction be it a debit or a pre-auth payment or whatever just didn’t go through so that’s why I’m just curious about it.

            Now when I lived in the US briefly? all the damn time I’d get nailed with NSF fees. so I know they suck. but here in Canada? I can’t recall ever getting one so I was honestly curious as to how they happened.

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          2 months ago

          I get where you’re coming from. We have the means to verify funds before a transaction, so the NSF fee is like a service fee for checking the transaction, except only when there aren’t enough funds. The real fix should be NSF fees are illegal, and banks need to sort their shit out.