How it does seem that businesses seem to punish the poorest in the community. I had a direct debit fail, I was 16p out and no overdraft, but thanks to that the bank has very thoughtfully charged me £10 to cover their costs. Ten fucking pounds.
And not only that but if you fall behind in your payments in your gas and electric. Then they come and fit a meter, from all I have read, these meters cost more than a direct debit. How is that helping someone.
I get that companies need to make money but by charging people for things they can’t afford in the first place seems like a bonkers idea.
Its good to be crazy Sometimes 
IMO, the people who decide to impose the charges and install the meters you mention are people who are incapable of thinking things through…there are many of them out there. Thinking that everyone else has the same common sense as you is a big no-no. I learned that the hard way….which is the way I learn most things….
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I just find it very frustrating that when someone is down, you should help pick them not kick them a bit more
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I’ll share the story of opening a business checking account and how my bank ate my $200 up….actually, that about sums it up doesn’t it? Infuriating!!
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Its so annoying, and the worse thing is I can’t think of an answer that is going to work
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The rich stay rich by keeping poor, poor. Any extra that can be added is covering their costs. The greatest thing would be for a service company to actually have to collect on what they provided.
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I get its more complicated than probably what I think, but especially for gas, the price of that seems to go up and down and yet I have never seen my gas bill go down
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We had a thirty percent hike in gas when the crude oil prices dropped for a week straight. It’s totally random. Always goes up faster than it comes down. 😦
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Our fuel prices are so stupid now, its around a £1 per litre so about $1.44
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It’s crazy with one place at 25 cents more a gallon a mile away. When gas was high the difference was smaller
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that is amazing, we have less than a penny difference between all of ours
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Free enterprise. With customer savings cards it can even save you pennies, but still be more than other places.
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I sometimes wonder, if it might just be easier to shut down the whole banking system and start again
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We tried that here. We have gone twice without a national banking System. We were smart enough to bail some banks out eight years ago because they were too big to fail.
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That is what we keep doing, but there is only so many times you can bail out some banks
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I’ll never understand bank fees, I get it I was overdrawn and sure I must pay a penalty. However, being overdrawn a few dollars should not equate into 36.00 freaking dollars!
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That is my issue, if I had a sense this may have happened, I wouldn’t of argued for the bank charges to be reversed when a direct debit bounced for about £80 9 months ago, I would be happier to pay a fee for that the freaking 16p I was just charged
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https://andnowmiguel.wordpress.com/2016/02/16/substantiated/
Thought you would get a kick out of this, give you my word will revisit you today.
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Shaking my head with ya!
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