POLL: Do you keep all your CC receipts and compare to your bill?

[thirtythree]

If you answer yes to the second question, where was it?

 

[nanette1985]

Where was it? It was right there on the bill. Oh, what store do you mean? Restaurants. Way too often.

 

[I Saw OJ]

No i dont keep the receipts, and I probably have been over charged more than once.

 

[kranky]

I once had a restaurant charge show up on my bill for the second time, 8 months after we ate there.

 

[imported_Imp]

Nope. I check my receipt the second I leave the store. Somehow I always remember the price I paid and just skim my CC statement online looking for weird things (e.g. $50 at McDonalds or $500 at Wal-mart).

 

[FeuerFrei]

I keep all receipts but I don't usually get around to comparing them to the statement.
One time I was overcharged for a parking fee at the airport. Instead of $4 it was ... uh ... $26 or so. I was on the verge of disputing it when I noticed they'd corrected their mistake and credited my account.
That's the only time.

 

[woodie1]

I keep all receipts and check my bill each month. Most of the time everything is correct. Once in awhile when I put the tip on the cc at a restaurant my statement will not reflect the additional amount - just the cost of the meal.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: kranky
I once had a restaurant charge show up on my bill for the second time, 8 months after we ate there.

How did you resolve it?

 

[chusteczka]

Once had a restaurant fill in a tip on the CC charge after I had left a cash tip on the table.

Once had a clothing retailer charge me for items I had returned, instead of crediting that amount. The retail manager fixed the issue with no problems.

 

[FoBoT]

no, that is too much work
and i don't use CC that much. too much, but not that much

 

[boomerang]

Yes I do and no I haven't.

However, I have charged items that never showed up on my bill.

 

[Saint Nick]

I don't keep the receipts. I don't charge very much to my CCs per month if anything at all. And when I do charge stuff, I just go through the statement looking for things that don't look familiar.

 

[HombrePequeno]

I just check online to see if my charges are wrong. I have a pretty good memory for those type of things so I don't need to keep the receipt.

 

[GeekDrew]

Any time I make a purchase, I always enter it into PocketQuicken. I sync PocketQuicken to Quicken whenever I sit down at my desktop. I update my Quicken records with the latest bank records every few days. I reconcile my Quicken records with my bank statements monthly.

Oh, and I do keep all of my receipts for a period of time (at least a month or two), just in case I've entered something wrong and/or there is some other discrepancy for which a receipt is necessary.

No differences, yet.

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: kranky
I once had a restaurant charge show up on my bill for the second time, 8 months after we ate there.

How did you resolve it?

It was easy. A call to the CC issuer, pointed out we were billed the same amount from the same restaurant on the earlier statement, and told them we hadn't been there since. Never had to even fill out a form, it was credited when we got the next statement.

 

[kranky]

For the receipt non-keepers, I think you'll need them if you want to make a claim under your card's extended warranty program.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew
Any time I make a purchase, I always enter it into PocketQuicken. I sync PocketQuicken to Quicken whenever I sit down at my desktop. I update my Quicken records with the latest bank records every few days. I reconcile my Quicken records with my bank statements monthly.

Oh, and I do keep all of my receipts for a period of time (at least a month or two), just in case I've entered something wrong and/or there is some other discrepancy for which a receipt is necessary.

No differences, yet.

heh ... you are a geek.

 

[soydios]

I keep the receipts until I get home, then punch it in to an Excel spreadsheet. very easy to compare against the online statement that way, and no endless stack of receipts.

 

[thirtythree]

Question for those who remember or write down the amounts... what if you actually did find an incorrect charge? Is there much you can do without a receipt?

 

[Captante]

(1) Yes I keep all my receipts, but I don't use my cc's very much so I remember all the amounts I charge & don't need to check them.

(2) No I've never been charged an incorrect amount, although I have been charged twice for a DVD on Amazon once ... one e-mail & it was corrected.