Consumer Reports, Viewpoint: Debit Holds

Posted by Amanda Frayer at 10/15/08 02:41 PM
As if gas didn't cost enough...

Mary Alice Belov planned to put gas in her car, then buy groceries. What she didn’t plan on was the $10 gas purchase freezing $50 of her bank account and forcing Belov, a small-business owner from Goldendale, Wash., to put items from her cart back on the shelf. Blame the all too common "debit hold."

View the website: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/aboutus/mission/viewpoint/as-if-gas-didnt-cost-enough/overview/gas-didnt-cost-enough-ov.htm?resultPageIndex=1&resultIndex=1&searchTerm=debit%20hold 
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