Mr. C and KeeWee finally made it home from the GBR yesterday after some trouble with the airline.
Best quote from the tale:
It seems that TSA has trouble differentiating between fudge from Scheel’s and C4.
Really. I have never seen C4 with walnuts. Where do they find those people?
I too have had a little difficulty resulting from the adventure: The Silver Legacy Hotel charge me not once, not twice, but three times for priviledge of staying in one for their rooms. I was within six hours of bouncing my monthly payment for Bull the Silver Bullet (recently ignored by the po-po in four states).
Four phone calls and a visit to my bank later, all is well. But that’ll teach me to use a debit card in an attempt to stay credit card interest.
I don’t understand, Phil. Why do you think that the multi-bang of your debit card wouldn’t have happened with a credit card?
If it did happen with a credit card, you have the right of disputing it, but on the negative side, you might have had to wait almost a month before seeing the boo-boo, which might give the hotel the excuse of refusing to look at the issue due to a lack of timeliness.
The simple solution is cash. Anymore, wherever I go, I just hit the ATM for cash, and use that.
You can’t reserve a room with cash, RD. Especially not from four states away. Also, when they take your reservation they make sure you’ve got the funds available by running the entire amount and then some (just like a gas pump).
That is where the trouble began. Because I was using a debit card, the excess amount was run through, but the crediting for the excess was taking longer than the charge, so the multiple excesses caught up. I had to call the hotel to get them to mass cancel the later charges and the bank to hurry up the credits. If it took a week on a credit card, no one would have noticed because that is how they operate.
Fortunately, such douchebaggery seems less common than you’d think.
I was at DragonCon in Atlanta, and stayed at the Sheraton there. Pretty nice rooms. The day of checkout, they slide an ITEMIZED bill under the door for your review, so if there’s a problem you can deal with it. I was most pleased.