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Originally Posted by ProfessorNumber
Aside from wanting to have as much profanity in the title as possible, I realized that Nubblies needs a place to post ridiculous news stories, without cluttering the news page with tons of different topics. Now when I say that Nubblies needs this thread, I actually mean that I have another news topic that might not be worth it's own thread. By starting this one, we can all post ridiculous news stories, sort of like the "Kickass ____ of the Day" threads.
So, to kick us off: How to Spend 81 billion dollars filling up your gas tank
PayPal: Fill-up wasn't $81 billion - Vehicular weirdness- msnbc.com
Long story short, a man uses his Paypal debit card (yeah, they actually do make those I guess) to pay for gas at the pump. It charged him over 81 billion dollars. The best part of this story is that the guy actually had to argue with the paypal service tech in order to get the charge removed. |
If you follow that link they updated the story. Turns out the man was just a moron.
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But a spokeswoman for PayPal, Sara Gorman, said Friday that Zamora may have been confused by a merchant identification number that appeared along with details about the transaction in the e-mail. “I can assure you that we did not charge him $81 billion,” Gorman said.
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I LOVE paypal, I can't even imagine why you'd need to talk to customer service since I think they got everything right.