Look at the check they write you GOOD

[sheshovel]

Did a small job for some clients I have been working for one job or so a year for ten years,maint,relandscapes,stuff like that,
They have a ranch about 25mi away,so 50 mi round trip.She wrote a check for the amount owed.I THOUGHT. All I looked at is the $850.00 in the little box,saw the 1st word Eight in the long part and looked no further.
Got home and she had written
Eight &50/100 ..$8.50 not
Eight hundred fifty and 00/100 $850.00
So nowI will have to go all the way back again
to get a new check written out.Who eats the time and gas ME!! :angry:
Read your checks!!or mabey I will try to sneak it past the instateller machine or will it KNOW?

[Mueller Landscape Inc]

Did she get the numerical portion right or did she write $8.50 there too? I would not try to sneak it past if the check is for only $8.50. Might have the feds come knockin.

[Mats]

So nowI will have to go all the way back again
to get a new check written out.Who eats the time and gas ME!! :angry: Why don't you just call and have her mail you a new check?

[Precision Lawns]

I have a friend who writes checks like this - they owed us money once and wrote "Three hundred and 50/100" ($300.50) for $350.00, but wrote the number correctly in the little box. I had no problem depositing it for the correct amount at the bank since the amount in the box was right. Some people just never learned how to write checks in check-writing school. See if the bank will let you deposit it as-is, since the numbers in the box are right.

[Grass Masters]

I have a friend who writes checks like this - they owed us money once and wrote "Three hundred and 50/100" ($300.50) for $350.00, but wrote the number correctly in the little box. I had no problem depositing it for the correct amount at the bank since the amount in the box was right. Some people just never learned how to write checks in check-writing school. See if the bank will let you deposit it as-is, since the numbers in the box are right.


YOU GOT REAL LUCKY then because here the bank will only deposit the amount that is Writtten LONG hand and dont even worry about what is in the box.

I had a check for 75 and 0/100 and it should have been 75 and 50/100 and they only would cash it for 75 even even thoug the box said 75.50 but then again that was just 50 cents

[stumper1620]

i would either call and request she mail a new check or you could take it in the bank personally and have the bank call her to varify the correct amount, in the days of electronified checks i think they can just call to varify.

[sheshovel]

Well I e-mailed her last night and lucky for me she had a doc appt in town today so met her at the bank and she gave me a new check,saved me a trip both ways.She apologized .Said it was old age.I aske the teller if they would have cashed it written that way and she said NO!

[hosejockey2002]

I learned the same thing exactly the same way. It was just a mistake, the customer was very apologetic. I now look at each check carefully when it is given to me.

[Jason Rose]

Most financial institutions go by what is written out on the line and not the numbers in the box. Iv'e had that happen before... Luckily, one time I was making a deposit and the teller caught it but the customer that had written the check banked there as well. The teller called the lady and explained the situation and asked her to confirm the amount the check was supposed to be written for. Once confirmed she (the teller) made the change on the check and stamped it and all was good.

[lawnranger44]

Why don't you just call and have her mail you a new check?

Yeah! Why can't she mail it?

[sheshovel]

Well we have some problems with new mail carriers all the time and I don't trust this newest one to get me my mail.I have had in the past two months at least 5 envelopes delivered to me that were not even close to this address and not my name.So I'm a bit funny about my pay coming in the mail right now.that's why.

[blafleur]

Here's another check horror story to remember. Friend of mine in the cattle business delivered $40,000 worth of cattle to an individual. Guy writes my friend a check on Friday, and asks him to wait until Monday to deposit (anyone done that?!). Check bounces, guy refuses to write a new check. My bud takes him to court and loses because judge said according to the law (at least in Tx), my friend accepted a check that he was informed wasnt good as payment, so he's out of luck. Finds out later that this guy has done this before.

Bryan Lafleur

[sheshovel]

OH my god!that's screwed-up!Will he go get the cattle back or what?I have held checks like that before..never again.. never for that amnt though!I would take that to a higher court for sure.

[blafleur]

He talked to several attornies (I can hardly say the word without spitting), all said the judge was backing the law as it is written in Texas. Some kind of kink in the way it is written, if you accept a check that you are informed is not good as payment, basically you are out of luck.

He ended up getting some money, but definately not all, and after court costs and attorney (spit) fees, he pretty much ended up where he was if he didnt contest it. And we are supposed to be an advanced system.