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Offline Chris

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Price of habit chokes US smoker
« on: July 15, 2009, 12:54:27 PM »
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A man in the United States popped out to his local petrol station to buy a pack of cigarettes - only to find his card charged $23,148,855,308,184,500.

"I thought somebody had bought Europe with my credit card," said Josh Muszynski, from New Hampshire.

He says his appeals to his bank first met with little understanding, though it eventually corrected the error.

It also waived the usual $15 overdraft fee.

"It was all back to normal," Mr Muszynski told his local television station, WMUR. "They reversed the negative balance fee, which was nice."
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Re: Price of habit chokes US smoker
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2009, 12:59:33 PM »
That's the new "after tax" cost, right?
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Re: Price of habit chokes US smoker
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2009, 01:11:36 PM »
That has to be the price in New York or Chicago.

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Re: Price of habit chokes US smoker
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2009, 01:43:27 PM »
Mind you, this is "tax-free" New Hampshire.  While we're not quite THAT tax-free, it's amazing the number of people with Maine and Mass plates you see in our stores.
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Re: Price of habit chokes US smoker
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2009, 02:07:08 PM »
That's the national debt by 2020 the way these people are going.
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Re: Price of habit chokes US smoker
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2009, 05:20:05 PM »
That's the national debt by 2020 the way these people are going.
...per person.   :banghead:
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