Cut off for want of a PENNY!

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Tue May 16, 2006 6:56 pm

This is just insane.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20060516/D8HL5AU80.html

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Tue May 16, 2006 7:47 pm

Sad. Reminds me of something that happened to once. Got a call from a credit card collection agency...that a credit card I had closed months earelier had sent my account to collections....over a balance of 40 cents. I just sat there and asked the person on the phone how much it was costing them to collect this "huge" debt from me. The person was silent a moment, then said "This is nuts, I am clearing your account," then apologised for wasting my time. So often companiues spend so much time looking at the pig picture, they miss the little one. A penny, gawd, let me grab my chage jar, I have a few dollars worth in there. I could send it out, maybe save someone else the hassle.:-3

Rapunzel · Post by **Rapunzel** » Wed May 17, 2006 1:56 am

Marie5656 wrote: Sad. Reminds me of something that happened to once. Got a call from a credit card collection agency...that a credit card I had closed months earelier had sent my account to collections....over a balance of 40 cents. I just sat there and asked the person on the phone how much it was costing them to collect this "huge" debt from me. The person was silent a moment, then said "This is nuts, I am clearing your account," then apologised for wasting my time. So often companiues spend so much time looking at the pig picture, they miss the little one. A penny, gawd, let me grab my chage jar, I have a few dollars worth in there. I could send it out, maybe save someone else the hassle.:-3

And here's what they look at. The pig picture & the penny!

:wah:

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Wed May 17, 2006 4:40 am

Bunch of penny pinchers........................

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Wed May 17, 2006 7:29 am

OOPS...I did mean to say BIG picture..but PIG picture works.

LilacDragon · Post by **LilacDragon** » Wed May 17, 2006 7:36 am

I am sooo not surprised.

Earlier this year, a man died of carbon monoxide poisoning from the space heater he was using while waiting for the electric company to turn his power back A WEEK after paying his bill in full! This happened in Detroit, if I am not mistaken.

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Wed May 17, 2006 1:43 pm

Corporate pedantic insanity, second only to governmental inefficiencies and bull.