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Re: How Does This Happen?

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From: Adam H. Kerman
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:00
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SpammersDie <xx@xx.xx> wrote:
>"max" <betatron@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>Scott in SoCal <scottenaztlan@yahoo.com> wrote:

>>>Observation #2: One has to live on the ragged edge of financial
>>>disaster - literally paycheck-to-paycheck - for this to ever become an
>>>issue.

>>A great many people live like that, and let us collectively count our
>>blessings that we ain't them.

>>This stuff  [overdrafting], and the like falls under the business model
>>of Profit By Gotcha!       I don't like it.

>But I do like it better than shifting the cost to responsible accountholders 
>who track their spending and live within their means.

Shifting the cost of what? Does it somehow make it easier for the
business that received the bad check to collect its money, since it's
behind the large fees the bank has already taken?
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