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Undertoad · 09-26-2014, 05:18 AM

Yeah. I tighted up the remaining three bolts and limp the car home trying not to hit the brakes.

Well, money fixes everything right? Why not just go back to Pep Boys, apologize for not understanding that it costs $300 in labor because you have real tools in a real garage and don't do the work with a scissor jack, and get them to replace the stripped threads? It's too far to tow the car to glatt and have him do it.

At this time I have no money, because you see, the other day I attempted to buy some supplies from Amazon using my bosses' credit card. I have his card saved in my account, because we need to buy things about once a week.

But this time the transaction didn't go through, and when I changed the shipping address to see if maybe that was the problem, Amazon inadvertently changed the payment method to my default payment type - my debit card.

This time of course the transaction went through. And I looked at the confirmation, *immediately* realized they had charged my card, and I cancelled the order. Like within 60 seconds.

But the following day I found that the full amount for that order was missing from my bank account. I emailed Amazon and asked WTF? and they said that this was an authorization charge and it would take up to 10 days for my bank to turn that around.

09-26-2014, 05:18 AM	#2
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Yeah. I tighted up the remaining three bolts and limp the car home trying not to hit the brakes. Well, money fixes everything right? Why not just go back to Pep Boys, apologize for not understanding that it costs $300 in labor because you have real tools in a real garage and don't do the work with a scissor jack, and get them to replace the stripped threads? It's too far to tow the car to glatt and have him do it. At this time I have no money, because you see, the other day I attempted to buy some supplies from Amazon using my bosses' credit card. I have his card saved in my account, because we need to buy things about once a week. But this time the transaction didn't go through, and when I changed the shipping address to see if maybe that was the problem, Amazon inadvertently changed the payment method to my default payment type - my debit card. This time of course the transaction went through. And I looked at the confirmation, immediately realized they had charged my card, and I cancelled the order. Like within 60 seconds. But the following day I found that the full amount for that order was missing from my bank account. I emailed Amazon and asked WTF? and they said that this was an authorization charge and it would take up to 10 days for my bank to turn that around.