By poorcollegestudent - 30/10/2009 20:32 - Canada

Today, I went to my university bookstore and tried to use my debit card to pay, but got the "Insufficient Funds" notification. I was buying a single postage stamp, which costs 57 cents. FML
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NorfolkDude 2

One time when I was 16, I wrote a check and got charged 30 dollars by the bank for overdrawing my account. What was the magical purchase? A soda... for $1.05. Life lesson learned: learn to balance your account! So you'll have money to spend, even for silly things like stamps, sodas, or whatever.

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cthulhu1138 1

You used a debit card to buy one stamp!? I'm surprised they'd even consider accepting it.

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Askarlupka 0

when I tried to use my debit card on a candy bar the cash register rejected it because the amount wasn't over a dollar but I still had money in the account

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gordonskatespc 0

welcome to college

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Diogen 0

Who pays for a single stamp by debit?

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jonny2x4 0

How broke are you? How do you afford to eat every day? You might was to consider getting a job. Maybe something like prostitution, er, I mean escorting. I mean, c'mon, using a card to pay for a single stamp?

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mk810 1

You don't even have 57 cents in your account? wowww **** this recession

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frostie 0

poorcollegestudent, i know how embarrassing it is. I was in the store buying a packet of stamps, with a line of people behind me. The cashier ran my debit card along the swipe machine, and turns out i only could afford to buy one stamp. MOST. EMBARRASSING. MOMENT. EVER!!!

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xenomorph 0

Check your account. Perhaps your parents withdrew money under the table? I had the opposite happen to me. I was *not* keeping track of my spending, and my parents were secretly adding money to my account. I thought I had rationed out $100 for the whole year, but in reality I spent over $1000.

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ti3n_t 0

ydi for using your debit card on anything less the 5 dollars. Who the hell goes to the candy store, buys a lollipop and uses a debit card... same principle. Asif you wouldn't birng at least a dollar in ur purse/wallet.

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sbluen 0

Anyone who doesn't have time to count change.

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gremlin87 0

sometimes the bank will not allow the card to be used if there is $10 or less in the account. So doesn't necessarily mean you didn't have enough to buy postage... although you still are pretty damn broke. YDI for not checking up on your balance.

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