Author Topic: Restaurant-goer shocked at receiving bill for $23,148,855,308,184,500  (Read 840 times)

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MANCHESTER, N.H. - A "small number" of Visa cardholders were surprised to find that recent purchases cost them a little more than expected — $23 quadrillion, plus change.

In New Hampshire, Josh Muszynski said he swiped his debit card at a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes and when he later checked his account online found that he had been charged  the 17-digit number — a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500.

In North Texas, Jon Seale saw the same 17-figure bill on his credit card statement, presumably for a meal July 13 at a restaurant owned by celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck, NBC affiliate KXAS TV reported.

"For that amount of money, I could actually own Wolfgang Puck himself," Seale said.

Seale said he spent much of Tuesday making calls to Visa and his bank, Wachovia, in hopes of getting the exorbitant charge removed from his Wachovia Visa Buxx credit card. "It's an inconvenience, but it's not like I was truly worried my money was gone," he said. "It’s an obvious, glaring error."

Seale even tried tracking down Puck "on Facebook and add him as a friend to see if he’d make a comment, but I didn’t have any luck finding him."

Muszynski, for his part, said he spent two hours on the phone with his bank, Bank of America, trying to sort out the string of numbers and the $15 overdraft fee. The bank corrected the error the next day.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31920273/ns/us_news-weird_news/

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Ganhyun

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yea this story and the one with the woman depositing $1000 and getting a ton by mistake were funny.

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Barry Egan

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I would loooovvveee to own Wolfgang Puck :drool

Ganhyun

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I would loooovvveee to own Wolfgang Puck :drool

same here. But then my diet would be gone.  :(
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Propagandhim

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I would loooovvveee to own Wolfgang Puck :drool


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ferrarimanf355

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I guess President Obama has to pay for that health care plan somehow...
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pocket change
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