Ridiculously hypothetical question

[Stanley Burrell]

Alright.

Let's pretend that I have a friend. And that friend has a friend, of a friend.

Also, what do I do if my debit card got a bit jumbled and I didn't, probably, be $218 or so dollars poorer than I should be, hypothetically, after purchasing internet goods from a certain website that I realize may or may not have a billing issue and has given me approximately $218 hypothetical dollars of free wares? We'll pretend they're video games and 360 accessories, perhaps.

I don't have, you know, an extra 0 or something from the bank itself added onto my balance statement: I mean, this is, sheerly at the company level that has distributed goods to me without actually making me pay for them. And it's not like I robbed them blind or something, I found it out about forty-five minutes ago.

Again, super, unfathomably, assumptively hypothetical.

What would be the harm in seeing if I could continue some kind of weird trend by fishing around for really cheap objects on their site, just to verify that they're still not billing my card? Could that balance the scale out and send me a late payment due?

If this actually happened. It's like, nothing money, so far.

[Latrinsorm]

Stealing from Wal-Mart is ok. Everything else you should inform someone.

[Tsa`ah]

Chances are they'll catch it and hit your card when they do.

Were I in your shoes I would act like that 218 dollars wasn't in the account. If you chose to piss away the cash not charged, you'll probably run into a situation where you have less money than you thought ... and actually need it.

[Stanley Burrell]

Stealing from Wal-Mart is ok. Everything else you should inform someone.

This isn't, like, a third party game sales site. I wouldn't use one of 'ems.

I'm trying to think if there's some shady tactic of their doing one of those extra three months appears-on-your-statement dealy. Considering I pretty much have my merchandise and there's still no charge, there was a hypothetical fuck-up that I inadvertently exploited but just realized because I was too lazy to crack open last month's bank statement.

HYPOTHETICAL.

[Stanley Burrell]

Chances are they'll catch it and hit your card when they do.

Were I in your shoes I would act like that 218 dollars wasn't in the account. If you chose to piss away the cash not charged, you'll probably run into a situation where you have less money than you thought ... and actually need it.

Yeah, college tuition doesn't really need their trick card if they do catch it. Alright.

[Kitty]

Dork.

[Asha]

Noob

[Sean of the Thread]

R TARD

[Sylvan Dreams]

The company didn't ship the goods for free. Someone out there paid for the items. They will likely eventually notice and complain.

The question is, how would you prove that you did it without malicious intent and that it in fact was an accident?

Credit card fraud is a felony, btw.

[LMingrone]

Same as everyone else has said. Your friend of a friend of a friend might get away for a little bit....maybe never get caught. The chance that whoever you're talking about finally catches on and back-charges you everything probably outweighs the potential reward. You'd be surpised what the FBI will show up at your door for. Not worth the risk.

[Bobmuhthol]

I've had random charges from a couple places take weeks to show up on my account after receiving the item.