[MR] Returned Checks

[M'lady Foxy]

think I'm just gonna go easy way and pay cash...


--- On Mon, 10/27/08, Joshua Thomas <foreachdev at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Joshua Thomas <foreachdev at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [MR] Returned Checks
> To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Date: Monday, October 27, 2008, 8:28 PM
> I have always found the SCA position on alternative payment
> methods like
> Paypal a bit well Anachronistic. Checks are so 1980s. Why
> don't the
> exchequers on high get together and form some policies for
> using a service
> like Paypal and the SCA.org setup some integration that
> allows event
> autocrats to register their event with the service on the
> website. So people
> could reserve a space and the money could clear way prior
> to the event
> without getting the event staff involved in the dirty work.
> Set a cut off
> date for online reservation well in time for the
> transactions to clear and
> boom you have a solution.
> 
> All you would have to do is be able to set up several
> different product
> combos for a given event. (On Site with Feast, OffSite with
> Feast, ...)
> 
> I totally understand were the original poster is coming
> from. I think with a
> little innovation from corporate we could wipe this
> headache out for
> everyone.
> 
> If we could make this a standard for large events. Just
> think all that time
> we would save doing things like data entry in a
> spreadsheets and tracking
> registration. All along it has been a paid reservation is
> the only true
> registration. If said registration bounced the transaction
> would just be
> marked in error and could largely be ignored by the event
> autocrats and
> Exchequer beyond asking for money at the door. No need for
> the group to
> collect the return check fee etc. Pay pal offer transaction
> histories.
> 
> Its
> 
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 9:50 PM, <scribe0002 at aol.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Gather round, children, Aunty Gise has a story to tell
> you . . . Once upon
> > a time an event was held and people sent money so they
> could attend . . .
> >
> > I've been involved with organizing any number of
> SCA, school, church,
> > civic, 4-H and other events in my forty-mumble years.
> Any time that folks
> > (or churches or schools or 4-H groups) pay with checks
> a certain number of
> > those pretty pieces of paper come bouncing back down
> the street all the way
> > from the bank. Every time.
> >
> > I'm not here to tsk tsk at anyone or to wag my
> finger in anyone's face. It
> > happens.
> >
> > Enough of those bouncing checks have had my name on
> them that I understand
> > the variety of missteps that can cause their advent.
> Miscalculations, direct
> > deposit paychecks that always come on Wednesday but
> come this week on
> > Thursday, deposits that ride around in my spouse's
> car for a week rather
> > then going straight to the bank, bank errors such as
> depositing the money
> > for Kathy L. Rauhauser-Smith in the account of
> Kathleen L. Smith or Kathryn
> > M. Rauhauser (both have happened to me . . . both have
> happened more then
> > once.)
> >
> > It happens.
> >
> > But can I beg, on the behalf of exchequers, autocrats,
> gate keepers,
> > reservationists, event stewards and all the other
> event-related officers in
> > this beautiful kingdom, take pity on us. Take care
> when you write a check.
> > If your bank sends you notice that you've bounced
> a check to us, take the
> > initiative and contact the exchequer of the group or
> the reservationist to
> > whom you sent your money. Tell them what's
> happened and work out the details
> > of making it right.
> >
> > Most of the banks charge the group a returned check
> fee . . . in our case
> > it's $8 a returned check. Be prepared to pay that
> charge as well. It's one
> > of the worst parts of being an exchequer. No one wants
> to be a collection
> > agent. It's uncomfortable . . . please. Pretty
> please?
> >
> > And they all lived happily ever after. The End.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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