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I like having something that I can hold in my hand that shows I paid the bill.

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??? Again Aban, what about your statement of account? That's perfect physical proof of your transaction. What would you need the check for?
And BTW, if you pay by check, you hand in the check to the one you owe money. They lose the check - where's your physical proof?

Well, perhaps whe "Old Europeans" are more modern than some would like to admit...

Like PsyLiam said, checks are for grannies who also keep their money under their pillow at night.
And even they hardly use checks anymore. Actually, here most companys don't even accept checks anymore...

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Originally posted by PsyLiam:

Plus, I hate cheques for exactly the opposite reason Jason jsut said. You write someone a cheque, forget about it, look at your account 3 weeks later and think "coo, I've got �100 spare, maybe I'll go and import some Japanese Transformers." And then you check again a week later and suddenly your bank is ringing you up because the stupid idiot you gave the �250 cheque to has only just cashed it and now people want to break your thumbs.

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I've run into that with my checkcard though: turns out that a vendor (at a store) can swipe your card through the reader while you're there, give you your reciept but not actually process the transaction for many days.

I use Bank of America and their policy is, any debits to an account have to be processed within a certain time period (48 hrs I think) or those funds return to your account.

So, you can still have some charge looming dispite having made your transaction days ago and dispite whatever it says on your onling statement.

After getting shafted this way, I was told by a rather haughty phone agent of BofA that the only way to verify my account's real balance was to use a tiny check registry and hand-write all my transactions in there for each purchase.

So much for high-tech.

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I was told by a rather haughty phone agent of BofA that the only way to verify my account's real balance was to use a tiny check registry and hand-write all my transactions in there for each purchase.

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