I know gasoline is an inelastic demandish thingy, but this is just ridonkulis! What next Exxon, our children!?!???!
Mistake to blame for overcharge at Richland gas station
PayPal, the company that issued a debit card that tried to charge Juan Zamora more than $81 billion this week, is blaming it on a simple misunderstanding.
Somehow the vendor's ID number was recorded as the purchase price, explained Sara Gorman of PayPal on Friday.
But Zamora said he doesn't need an explanation: He's closed the account.
Zamora bought $26 in fuel for his Camaro at the Conoco service station at Stevens Drive and Highway 240 in Richland early Tuesday -- only to learn later that PayPal had recorded the transaction amount using the 11-digit number that identifies the merchant.
That left Zamora with a serious overdraft of $81,400,836,908 instead of $26.
Gorman, a spokeswoman for PayPal, said it was their mistake and it will be corrected. She said the two numbers must have gotten switched, or perhaps Zamora misread them in an e-mail asking him to call PayPal to verify the purchase.
Yes doctor, I am sick. Sick of those who are spineless. Sick of those who feel self-entitled. Sick of those who are hypocrites. Yes doctor, an army is forming. Yes doctor, there will be a war. Yes doctor, there will be blood.....
"I do not think baseball of today is any better than it was 30 years ago... I still think Radbourne is the greatest of the pitchers." John Sullivan 1914-Old athletes never change.
I like how they're still trying to pass the blame off onto Zamora by saying that he maybe misread the email. I'm pretty sure this falls squarely onto PayPal's shoulders.
You have no frame of reference, Donny. You're like a child who walks into the middle of a movie...
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by knapplc » Tue Mar 03, 2009 3:13 pm 
