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One Pack of Cigarettes cost a NH man over $23 quadrillion dollars!!!!!
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 2:45 am
by BlueCrush
Wow! The cigarette tax in NH is outrageous....lol.Quote »NH man swipes debit card for smokes, charged 23 quadrillion dollars (plus $15 overdraft fee)Associated PressLast update: July 15, 2009 - 8:11 AM MANCHESTER, N.H. - A New Hampshire man says he swiped his debit card at a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes and was charged over 23 quadrillion dollars.Josh Muszynski (Moo-SIN'-ski) checked his account online a few hours later and saw the 17-digit number — a stunning $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).Muszynski says he spent two hours on the phone with Bank of America trying to sort out the string of numbers and the $15 overdraft fee.The bank corrected the error the next day.Bank of America tells WMUR-TV only the card issuer, Visa, could answer questions. Visa, in turn, referred questions to the bank.
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 2:52 am
by Wolfman213
I honestly think I would have crapped my pants!!!
Re: One Pack of Cigarettes cost a NH man over $23 quadrillion dollars!!!!! (BlueCrush)
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:29 am
by KNINE
Looks like Obama found a way to pay off his trillion dollar national debt.
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:36 am
by lovemyraffe
I don't smoke, but I had no idea that cigarettes were so freakin expensive.
Re: One Pack of Cigarettes cost a NH man over $23 quadrillion dollars!!!!! (BlueCrush)
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:46 am
by tribalman
sounds about right. you should see how much a pack costs in chicago. i think it's about $20 less than what he paid.
Re: One Pack of Cigarettes cost a NH man over $23 quadrillion dollars!!!!! (BlueCrush)
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:57 am
by Herb
Quote, originally posted by BlueCrush »Wow! The cigarette tax in NH is outrageous....lol.An incentive to quit smoking perhaps?
Re: One Pack of Cigarettes cost a NH man over $23 quadrillion dollars!!!!! (BlueCrush)
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 5:26 am
by keithvibe
Bet the guy quits smoking over this little snafuu
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:40 am
by star_deceiver
You know, there are safeguards that retailers and banks take to prevent that from happening in Canada, .... But then again it does explain how the American banks got into so much trouble!
Re: One Pack of Cigarettes cost a NH man over $23 quadrillion dollars!!!!! (BlueCrush)
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:22 am
by ColonelPanic
They've gone up a bit since I quit. No wonder why I've noticed a lot of the people being interviewed on the news about the price of smokes saying "if they keep raising prices like this i'm gonna have to quit!"Epic fail by the bank on this one...
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:20 pm
by ou.grizzly
I can barely count to 10.... Yikes...
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:30 pm
by zionzr2
this is exactly why I do not do business with BofA.
Re: One Pack of Cigarettes cost a NH man over $23 quadrillion dollars!!!!! (BlueCrush)
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:08 am
by KrazyB
Well I just think that it is crazy that it even went through the banking system, I think I will go and buy something super expensive and just take the overdraft fee