There's a law on the books in most (if not all) states that if they charge you a higher price at the checkout than what's posted they have to refund the difference, plus sometimes an extra percentage as a penalty. The same goes for you, government. You quote me a fine, or a fee, or something like that, that's the price I'm going to pay.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Truth in pricing...
This and this sort of thing really piss me off. If a government agency doesn't bill you correctly or makes a clerical error in processing, it's their own damn fault. You should not be responsible for their mistake unless the mistake was clearly obvious on its face (for example, being charged $400 total for tuition when you should have been $4,000).
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That happened to me one semester senior year, too - I tried to pay tuition, but for some reason I got "clerical error'd" into being a grad student RA in Julie Mitchell's lab, so they had deferred my tuition and sent all my money back. And then they sorted it out, charged me the whole thing, PLUS a $100 late fee because I hadn't paid on time.
THAT one really pissed me off.
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