BanksYour Ginger Fuhrer froths, "I hate my bank. Not because of debt or anything but because I hate being sold to - possibly pathologically so - and everytime I speak to them they try and sell me services. Gold cards, isas, insurance, you know the crap. It drives me insane. I ALREADY BANK WITH YOU. STOP IT. YOU MAKE ME FRIGHTED TO DO MY NORMAL BANKING. I'm angry even thinking about them."
So, tell us your banking stories of woe.
No doubt at least one of you has shagged in the vault, shat on a counter or thrown up in a cash machine. Or something
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chthonic, Thu 16 Jul 2009, 13:15)
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well how about this...one guy was charged $23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars) when buying some Cigarettes. (linkage)
Whoops, much?
(, Thu 16 Jul 2009, 13:41, 3 replies)
I read that storyI figure the number is his bank card number, plus an extra zero on the end.
(, Thu 16 Jul 2009, 13:49, closed)
It isn't1) It happened to many people, with the same amount being charged.
2) It doesn't pass the Luhn test, so it can't be a card.
(, Thu 16 Jul 2009, 13:58, closed)
Programming errorfrom Slashdot:
"What is interesting is that the amount charged actually reveals the type of programming error that caused the problem. 23,148,855,308,184,500.00 * 100 (I'm guessing this is how the number is actually stored) is 2314885530818450000. Convert 2314885530818450000 to hexadecimal, and you end up with 20 20 20 20 20 20 12 50. Most C/C++ programmers see the error now ... hex 20 is a space. So spaces were stuffed into a field where binary zero should have been."
(, Thu 16 Jul 2009, 14:28, closed)
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