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checks usually come with the groovy little low-tech device called a \"check register\". you do need a pen or pencil to interface with it, but it does wonders with keeping track of oustanding debits to your account.
checks usually come with the groovy little low-tech device called a \"check register\". you do need a pen or pencil to interface with it, but it does wonders with keeping track of oustanding debits to your account.
.....Absolutely, ikes! When you spend it, it's gone. You've got to treat it that way, unless you just like paying big fees and having a bad credit rating! Don't take your bank's word for it on your balance. Check it. They do screw up from time to time!
This happened to me in the middle of April. I ordered a shirt with two $25 BR rewards cards (bringing my total to a whopping $10ish) and received an email confirmation saying I had placed the order and showed the correct payment information, which was placed on my BR credit card.
I then received a shipping notification with payment information that was wrong. Only one rewards card value was deducted from my total, bringing it to $35. I figured there was a mistake, as my BR credit card had not been charged yet, so I waited for the charge to go through to dispute.
Then I received the shipping delay notification.
Then it came on time anyway.
I still was only charged for 1 rewards card, which I figured worked out fine, since the other would still be valid.
Not so! Neither rewards card code is valid online anymore, meaning they deactivated both but only used one $25 value.
What's more, the information regarding that purchase on my BR card online statement AND on BR's shipping account statement is suspsiciously unavailable. I can't access why or how one value was deducted and one wasn't. However, I still have the emails.
Good to know this was a problem for everyone. I had written it off, figuring I had mis-entered a code or something. But looking back through my records, there's a definite error. Good thing I saved my emails.
Just a tip, though, from me, being a former employee:
If you get rewards cards from Gap, Banana, or Old Navy, they can be used twice: once online and once in stores. The online code must be used first, then take it into the store and use it on a different purchase. Rewards cards are not processed at corporate; they literally sit in an audit box for a year and are then thrown away. They have no way of knowing what discount was applied to a purchase or how it was applied, so you can get away with using the discount twice.