Those newfangled ATM's confusternated me....

[MonkeyFunk]

I deposited a check the other night. It was one of those new ATM's that doesn't require an envelope for a deposit, and it scans your check and reads the numbers right off it.

Well, the whole thing confused me so much I left my card in the machine!

I have a second, duplicate card. I just tried to use it at an ATM and it said I was unauthorized!

I then noticed I didn't have the other card with me. I thought maybe I'd lost it, and somebody tried to use it, entering the wrong PIN repeatedly, OR had used it successfully and the bank put a hold on my account.

I got home, called the bank, and found out that it was just my stupidity at play. They've stopped the hold on my account, and all is well.

Damn fancy-ass machines.

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1. They're Diebold machines!

At least that is what Bank of America is using now.

[MonkeyFunk]

2. Bastards!

First they steal our votes, now they're stealing our ATM cards!

[Generic Brad]

6. Don't knock the Diebold ATM's

For all the bad rap they have deservedly gotten for their voting machines - by contrast their ATM's are mighty reliable.

[mwooldri]

7. But I gotta knock 'em! NCR make better ATMs.

And I'm biased because my first university has a program with their ATM manufacturing plant in Dundee, Scotland (guess which university that would be) and I was mighty impressed with what I saw when I took a tour of their plant. In any case I just feel more at home using the NCR ATM than I do the Diebold machines.

Mark.

[Generic Brad]

8. I'm familiar with Diebold, NCR and Fuji

All make very reliable products (with the exception of Diebold's voting division).

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9. Except that they take forever to print the receipt.

[MonkeyFunk]

10. Yes

it did take a long time! And I was worried because it was a very big check, and it hadn't asked me to enter the amount. I thought something had gone wrong.

I thought maybe it ate my check and would just laugh at me - "Check? What check?"

[Midlodemocrat]

3. I LOVE those. Automatic credit for your deposit up until 8PM.

A godsend for me.

[MonkeyFunk]

4. But it

bedazzled me with its high-tech allure in order to steal my card!

[Midlodemocrat]

11. Ha. Yesterday I went to make a deposit and then withdraw some

cash. Totally forgot about the cash because I was so befuddled.

I do love those things, though. I almost never made it to the bank prior to 5PM to get deposits in. My own fault. We have direct deposit and I would wait and wait and wait until the last possible minute to deposit assorted random checks.

[Redstone]

5. Isn't it wonderful how technology has simplified our lives?

Redstone