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While Uber has certainly proven to be a huge convenience to most of us, it’s not without its downfalls. For special events and holidays, surge charges will have you standing in the street attempting to hail a cab, and if you’ve had too much to drink and get sick in the car, you’ll lose more than your perfect 5-star rating. These are just a few of the things that can cause Uber bills to surge out of control, but even on your worst night, at least you weren’t sent a $28,000 bill from Uber, which unfortunately, did just happen to a Philadelphia resident.
That’s right, Uber actually thought it was reasonable to charge this poor (now used in more than one sense of the word) woman a year’s worth of private college tuition to shuttle her around a U.S. city for a grand total of $28,639.14. This woman owes a serious thank-you card to her bank, who had the foresight to put a hold on the charge before verifying it and leaving her SOL right before the holidays. Apparently the high price was due to a “technical glitch,” which isn’t exactly comforting. What else isn’t comforting is that multiple other users have been mischarged in what’s being referred to as a financial hack, leaving account information vulnerable. Awesome.
If you’re Ubering around your hometown bars this week, make sure you keep a close eye on both your Uber charges as well as your checking account. After all, it’s pretty likely that you’re having a hard enough time with your student loan payments as is, and you really don’t need them multiplying overnight. At the very least, sometimes large charges can suspend your card’s ability to be used, which is exactly what you don’t need to happen right before Christmas. Be careful out there kids, and maybe consider bringing your pregnant friend along to DD for you this weekend. .
[via Fortune]
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Steph W. is a new Master's degree graduate with an intern's salary and six-figure taste. She realizes her expectations far exceed reality, so she spends her days pinning away Loubs she pretends are in her physical closet instead of her virtual one. Her hobbies include attempting to trapping her boyfriend into marriage before he finds out how insane she is and pretending that Black Box wine tastes as good as the kind she could afford when she was gainfully employed. Send her tips for getting out of student debt at recruitchairtsm@gmail.com
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I’m now comfortable in the fact that no one can charge me $28k for anything as I simply don’t have $28k in money or available credit. #fraudproof
Came here to say just that. Go ahead and charge me, you won’t get it.
Glitches and hacks happen all the time. For this reason, the moral of the story is to never use a debit card for any kind of online purchase and to use a credit card instead. That way there’s a buffer between the online store and your bank account.
I’d also add that it’s prudent not too have a high limit on your credit cards for this exact reason. You’ll never get stuck with a 10k bill if you only have a 5k limit. Credit card company will automatically cut you off.
I disagree. Debt to credit ratio is a large component of your credit score so you always want to have as high of a credit limit as you can get.
But don’t carry any debt. Interest on credit card debt sucks more than Todd’s relationship skills.
I’m not disagreeing with you, but you can have more than one credit card. Be smart and pick and choose which can be used for riskier purposes.
That and you can sign up to receive a notice any time a purchase is made with the card without the card physically present at the time of sale.
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Use Lyft. They cap their prime time at x2