posted on March 15, 2001 10:26:05 AM
Has anyone ever gotten a duplicate Bidpay money order? I got a duplicate for $151. I would cash them both but they have the same Money order number on them. Any suggestions?
posted on March 15, 2001 10:29:25 AM
Happened to me once, also. But they realized their error before I received the second one, and sent me an email telling me to destroy it.
BidPay's CS is pretty marginal- hard to get an answer to your email queries. But I'd send them an email telling them it was a duplicate, and asking for guidance. Keep a copy of the email, and attach the duplicate. Obviously, don't cash it!
posted on March 15, 2001 06:02:54 PM
Vetting -
If you look closely, you will probably find that one is the MO and the other is a non-negotiable reciept.
posted on March 15, 2001 06:35:47 PM
I have received a duplicate MO from BidPay. I contacted my buyer to make sure they weren't charged twice then I contacted BidPay. I never received an answer from BidPay so I cashed it.
It was a Money Order not a receipt of any kind.
Their mistake my gain.
And before everyone gos crazy getting on my case, remember I contacted both buyer and BidPay to try to get the situation taken care of.
Just because you did not get an answer does not mean you should have cashed the duplicate. Just because you did not get caught, does not make it right. It IS stealing.
Doesn't anyone have morals these days? I hear people say "hey, the cashier gave me too much change....her mistake, my gain", or "wow, the phone company sent me another DSL modem. Not my mistake, lucky me.", or "heh, heh, the bank debited my account for $10.00, but the check was $100.00, or even, "hey there was money deposited into my account...bank error, my gain", etc., etc., etc.
What, pray tell, will you do if a duplicate money order charge show's up on one of your buyer's future credit card statements, and they in turn ask you to forward them the duplicate or ask what you did with it? Also, you say you contacted Bidpay...why didn't you just return the money order to them, via regular mail?
posted on March 16, 2001 06:47:15 AM
Ruh roh, Goatskin, looks like you will be paying some bank fees when the duplicate money order you cashed comes back as "non-paying". From the thread Meya posted a link to above:
"DO NOT deposit both as one will be returned as a non-paying item and this will result in unnecessary bank charges to you."
This email was sent to all affected sellers within a few hours of the error taking place.
PLEASE NOTE. "ONLY ONE OF THESE MONEY ORDERS IS GOOD - ANYBODY WHO DEPOSITS BOTH WOULD HAVE THE SECOND ONE RETURNED AND HAVE BANK CHARGES PLACED AGAINST THEIR ACCOUNT".
There was a printing error on Friday which caused one batch of payments to go out twice (sorry about that). You will notice that they are 'exactly' the same. It is not a duplicate payment, it's the same payment twice and we did send an email out to all sellers who were affected on Friday letting them know about this error.
We want to thank you for pointing it out to us. You can cash ONE of these money orders without any problems and this will automatically cancel the second one - so please DESTROY THE SECOND MONEY ORDER.
IT DOES NOT MATTER WHICH OF THE TWO YOU DEPOSIT.
DO NOT deposit both as one will be returned as a non-paying item and this will result in unnecessary bank charges to you.
BUYERS "WERE NOT" CHARGED TWICE FOR THESE ORDERS, this was a printing error.
