Man gets a Quadrillion-Dollar credit card bill

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thread starter Saiu Jul 15 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Link A North Texas man has a 17-figure credit card statement after a bank glitch resulted in an eye-popping charge. This is what it looks like: $23,148,855,308,184,500.00. Here�s how to say it: 23 quadrillion,148 trillion, 855 billion, 308 million, 184,000, 500 dollars. It's more than 2,000 times the national debt -- and, according to Jon Seale's online credit card statement, it�s what he spent July 13 at Five Sixty by Wolfgang Puck. �For that amount of money, I could actually own Wolfgang Puck himself," Seale said. Seale, a husband and father of five from Trophy Club, spent much of Tuesday making calls to Wachovia and Visa in hopes of getting the exorbitant charge removed from his Wachovia Visa Buxx credit card. Both companies told him they were working to resolve the issue. �It's an inconvenience, but it's not like I was truly worried my money was gone," he said. "It�s an obvious, glaring error.� Seale even tried tracking down the celebrity chef himself. �I tried to find Wolfgang Puck on Facebook and add him as a friend to see if he�d make a comment, but I didn�t have any luck finding him," Seale said. Visa said the technical glitch that resulted in the giant charge only affected some customers with prepaid Visa cards. "A temporary programming error at Visa Debit Processing Services caused some transactions to be inaccurately posted to a small number of Visa prepaid accounts," said Visa spokeswoman Elvira Swanson said in a written statement. "The technical glitch has been corrected, and all erroneous postings have been removed.� Steale was not the only Visa Buxx cardholder to see the huge charge on his statement. A New Hampshire man found the $23 quadrillion charge after buying a pack of cigarettes at a gas station. A Visa representative said affected customers will also have the $20 overdraft fees removed.

obelixx 07/15/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Fail alert.

superpoop 07/15/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Saw this around 2 o clock today pacific time on yahoo.

Lelouch 07/15/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

What's his credit score? I wonder.

D4rkOblivi0n 07/15/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

That's.. wow.. o_o

WildObi 07/15/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

that's my spare cash for weekends /hopes

Seitarou 07/15/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

That could be suicide worthy if he didn't know how to resolve it.

icyredslush 07/15/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

It was a glitch so why is it news?

TRUTH 07/15/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

at first I read that as "quarter dollar credit card bill" and I was like "whoopty flipping doo"

Seitarou 07/15/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

icyredslush said: "It was a glitch so why is it news?" Isn't it obvious? An out of the ordinary glitch that gave someone a bill adding up to more than the national debt should obviously be news.

secure 07/15/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

my cc bill, thanks visa

TRUTH 07/15/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

secure said: " my cc bill, thanks visa " how's it going in louisville?

angramainyu Jul 15 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Basil hasn't seen a glitch of such magnitude. Honestly, how much do you have to suck at programming to create that kind of a 'programming error'? Edit: Databases can only hold fifteen digits. A blunder that huge shouldn't even be possible.

icyredslush 07/15/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Seitarou said: " Isn't it obvious? An out of the ordinary glitch that gave someone a bill adding up to more than the national debt should obviously be news." But its a glitch so it is not more then the national debt because it wasn't real......

secure 07/15/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

angramainyu said: "Basil hasn't seen a glitch of such magnitude. Honestly, how much do you have to suck at programming to create that kind of a 'programming error'? Edit: Databases can only hold fifteen digits. A blunder that huge shouldn't even be possible." probably someone using spaces instead of , (see hexadecimal)