Re: Two Thousand and Eight

Nick Spalding <spalding@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Opus the Penguin wrote, in
><Xns9A9FCAFDBBBDFopusthepenguinnettax@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> on 16 May 2008 01:02:31 GMT:
>
>> I pay off our credit card at the Chase web site. They won't let me 
>> enter a number that's larger than the current balance. I could use 
>> your scheme for the gas bill and similar though.
>
>Mine lets me make it as much as I like.  I load my CC account before
going
>abroad as it is the cheapest way to get money from an ATM as there is
zero
>transaction charge if the account is in credit.  If I were to use my
debit
>card, which I could do pretty much anywhere in Europe, there would be a
>charge.  A credit balance also earns a miniscule amount of interest which
>it doesn't in my bank account.

Back in 01, I was buying a laptop online.  My "toys" credit card had a
$1000 limit, so I tried to preload another $1200 to it before calling
Dell.  The bank wouldn't let me.  I had to use the "household" credit
card to buy a $2200 toy.

My distinction between the cards was confusing enough to Wendy.  When
my toy purchase showed up on the gold card, she called me on not
following what she thought were my rules.
-- 
Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27