How to deal with bad check

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

This guy sounds too dumb to be a spellchecker at the M&M's factory.

lol. And the "trick" he pulled was kinda ballsy. Pretty funny.

[gtc]

Maybe he just messed up and didn't realize his bank account was low.

I have gotten stuck with bad checks a few times. What I did was to go to the issuing bank. They will usually tell you if the person has enough money in their account to cover the check. If the money is not there, keep coming back until it is, preferably on paydays... fridays, the 15th and end of the month, etc.

Originally Posted by Two Rivers

He works for a defense contractor. I have the problem solved. I told him I forgot to tighten some important parts and he needs to get his car to me asap.
I disabled his car in the shop and told him to bring cash. I am in Cedar Rapids Iowa and a cop friend said that would be OK as long as the car was in my possession.

He did not know I tried to deposit his check because my bank has to verify funds transfer over five hundred dollars.
There was not moneys in his account to cover the check. Funny thing was only about thirty minutes and I had cash in hand.

I do not have a business funds problem it just pissed me off this clown tried to screw me over. After over thirty years I feel lucky this kind of thing hasn't happened more. Things are tight for a lot of folks I know but word can get around fast in a small city as we have here.

Thanks to all for keeping my head on straight and not letting this get out of control,They charge you sixty bucks a day for your jail time. :-{

[Rick Lee]

I got paid with a rubber check by a fraternity at Carnegie Mellon Univ. for a gig my band played there. It was around $600, which was a lot of money for college students in 1993. Of course, their rubber check caused me to bounce a bunch of checks, as this was in the time before overdraft protection. I went to collect in person and the fraternity house was literally being demolished by construction workers. However, I found their treasurer while there and he apologized profusely, wrote me another check for the amount plus the NSF's I had incurred and it cleared. I really thought I was screwed there.

[targa911S]

kick him in the nuts.