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Old 02-12-2007, 04:19 PM
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WTF?? A bank would actually insure someone stupid enough to write their PIN on their card???
Sadly yes. As long as they report it in the time given. It doesn't fall under the narrow guidelines of "giving out" your PIN, probably because you didn't intentionally hand out your card either.

The banking regulations are really specific, and so are the internal policies. Some banks might specifically deny claims with the PIN on the back but if the card is lost, how are you going to prove it? I've had to report mine missing before to a larger bank and they did ask me if I had written the PIN on the back or kept it in the wallet or anything, but I think this was for their own information.
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Old 02-12-2007, 06:09 PM
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I use checks a few times a month - donations at church, items here or there at school, and rent.
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Old 02-12-2007, 06:14 PM
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The husband rarely uses checks, he always either takes out cash to have on hand or uses the debit as a credit card.

I tend to write more checks as I almost never have cash on hand and it's kind of a PITA to get to a bank-owned ATM (whereas husband has one in his office building). Plus after 10 debit transactions, our CU starts charging $.50 for every non-CU POS use.
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Old 02-12-2007, 08:31 PM
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i write checks at daycare-- they dont take cards and i dont want to drop $200 in cash each week in the box.
i dont order checks though- i write so few, 4 a month- that i go to the bank and the girl prints out a couple of sheets for me.
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Old 02-12-2007, 08:49 PM
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The only check that I write consistantly is for rent. Other than that, I hardly ever write checks. Right now I'm waiting on my new checks because I want to switch my direct deposit and work needs a voided check to set it up.
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Old 02-12-2007, 10:07 PM
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Yes, I know of several people who have the "E-Z Checking" (that's what Citibank calls it) account.

I write checks about 5-8 times a month, between rent, weekly PT appointments, and student loans and club charges.
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Old 02-12-2007, 10:36 PM
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I try to pay as much online or by debit card as possible. I write a monthly check for rent and for the one credit card I use. Everything else is set up to auto-debit or is paid online. It's more convenient for me. I check my accounts at least once every two days online.
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Old 02-13-2007, 03:44 AM
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Do any of you have a checking account where you have a debit card only and can't write actual physical checks?

Even if you do have them there (this is for the younger set) do you actually use the checks at all? Or do you look at them like "WTF are these things?"

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I do. I have two accts one with check writing and the other without. The one without is for direct deposit of alimony and child support purposes only so my ex husband could not have my other acct info and also so i won't comingle it with my own earnings.


With my checking acct with checks i only use checks on places that dont use electronic means of payment. I pretty much bank and pay bills online or debit it.

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Old 02-13-2007, 05:17 PM
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Some times it is nice to have a paper trail espc. for IRS!

They demand it. Been there 7 times and it sucks!
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Old 02-13-2007, 05:39 PM
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For everyone talking about a "paper trail" . . . I don't get where the paper trail is missing from debit transactions. Doesn't a receipt carry just as much weight as a canceled check? Can't the bank lose or forget to send a canceled check just as an electronic copy?

I get the rent issue if your landlord is a douche, but I don't mind direct withdrawal there either (again, for the recording purposes above) - am I naive/too trusting/too Gen Y here?
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Old 02-13-2007, 05:44 PM
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Ah, only if there is not a break down on the computor link?

Oh, tell me it does not happen?

where do your checks go when the are written?

Not in your possesion, but stored in caves that we are paying for.
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Old 02-13-2007, 05:50 PM
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For everyone talking about a "paper trail" . . . I don't get where the paper trail is missing from debit transactions. Doesn't a receipt carry just as much weight as a canceled check? Can't the bank lose or forget to send a canceled check just as an electronic copy?

I get the rent issue if your landlord is a douche, but I don't mind direct withdrawal there either (again, for the recording purposes above) - am I naive/too trusting/too Gen Y here?
Since all of your checks are processed electronically, there isn't much more of a paper trail. They're all scanned onto servers and usually you don't get "cancelled" checks back, you get images of the check. After the processing, there's just as much proof of a check as there is of the debit.

Server problems happen, but they are backed up offsite daily. There's a limit to the amount of data that can be lost barring a big catastrophe. And even then the offsite storage is supposed to be a sufficient distance away to prevent that.
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Old 02-13-2007, 08:12 PM
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Since all of your checks are processed electronically, there isn't much more of a paper trail. They're all scanned onto servers and usually you don't get "cancelled" checks back, you get images of the check. After the processing, there's just as much proof of a check as there is of the debit.
This is my whole point, really.

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Ah, only if there is not a break down on the computor link?

Oh, tell me it does not happen?

where do your checks go when the are written?

Not in your possesion, but stored in caves that we are paying for.
Tom, uh . . . the bank losing your canceled check is just as likely as losing your electronic information - there are approximately equivalent procedures in place (in fact, I'm pretty sure they're literally analogous), so I'm not sure why you feel 'safer' the old way.

Add to this the fact that receipts are entirely in your possession (and there is some degree of retailer potential as well, past the simple "welp, cashed the check") and I don't get it.
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Old 02-13-2007, 11:39 PM
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Yeah I was agreeing, it was more coherent than trying to pick apart Earp's post because it makes my brain hurt sometimes.

Oh, also, off the top of my head I think they shred your cancelled checks once they're imaged. I don't know if paper copies are kept anymore, but I'm not involved in operations and I haven't audited it so I don't know exactly.
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