28-05-2005 03:12									#1
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I came across this story today, while browsing the World of Warcraft forums. It's long - nearly 12 pages - but well worth the time spent reading it.

Basically it's a true story about a guy who deposits a junk mail check for 95,000 dollars, and actually gets the money. Really good reading.

http://www.man1bank0.com/home.cfm?page=2

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	28-05-2005 05:21									#2
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A good story, and a good read.

	28-05-2005 06:00									#3
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Read the whole thing. The author is a very good writer.

	28-05-2005 06:01									#4
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Excellent story

Too bad it happened during the OJ Simpson trial, though.

	28-05-2005 06:02									#5
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Reading it almost made me smack my eyes against the screen. The guy's a bit self-serving though.

	28-05-2005 06:06									#6
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How's that?

	28-05-2005 06:15									#7
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The show? The DVD? The reviews? The paypal account for tips? The fancy design of the site with his picture plastered to the left? Seriously, there's irritating whiff of a 15-minutes of fame nobody who hasn't realised it's just 15 minutes of fame.

	28-05-2005 06:16									#8
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quote: Originally posted by Trip Read the whole thing. The author is a very good writer.

Ditto. I was glued to the screen.

	28-05-2005 06:22									#9
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Very good read...

	28-05-2005 08:47									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Colon The show? The DVD? The reviews? The paypal account for tips? The fancy design of the site with his picture plastered to the left? Seriously, there's irritating whiff of a 15-minutes of fame nobody who hasn't realised it's just 15 minutes of fame.

Well, he was flat broke, and now that he has returned the check, I think he probably needs the money again...

I read this story long ago, before he had it on the fancy site and everything. It was fun to see it again.

	28-05-2005 09:26									#11
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Actually, the writing wasn't all that great, but the story itself was suspenseful .

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	28-05-2005 09:42									#12
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quote: Originally posted by Jaguar Well, he was flat broke, and now that he has returned the check, I think he probably needs the money again... I read this story long ago, before he had it on the fancy site and everything. It was fun to see it again.

Yeah, I admit he's probably just trying to cash in as much as possible, but it's still irritating.

	28-05-2005 11:21									#13
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quote: Originally posted by Colon Seriously, there's irritating whiff of a 15-minutes of fame nobody who hasn't realised it's just 15 minutes of fame.

Well, I started reading this story, and I've been enjoying it. I stopped at one section, and checked Apolyton, because I had only read the first post.

The section I'm currently reading is titled "Fifteen Minutes".

So I disagree with you

	28-05-2005 11:34									#14
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I can't fault him, simply because of this statement:

quote: I was swept up in my fifteen minutes. They were swept away by the fantasy.

	28-05-2005 11:42									#15
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Great story. But I'm not sending him any money



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	28-05-2005 17:20									#16
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You can't really blame him for trying to cash in on it, though.

First and foremost, he was broke, and in my book that means that anything goes. Secondly, he returned the money, giving him a lot of credit in any case. And thirdly, he was ill-treated by the bank, something which many of us know, and none of us like.

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	28-05-2005 20:33									#17
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I woudnt say he was Man 1-0 Bank though,
In fact, I'd say in Cashing the check, the bank making other ****-ups and him getting the media on the case, he was 3-0 by half in this story. By not even trying to keep his money, or running off with it to some obscure country he let the bank get back to 3-3 and they won on penalties

	28-05-2005 20:42									#18
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I love how First Interstate Bank of California went by the abbreviation FICAL!

	28-05-2005 20:43									#19
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Yeah, I read that sometime ago, good story

IT's right up there with the guy who took advantage of the lean cuisine frequent flier offer and ended up getting free flights for life.

	28-05-2005 21:48									#20
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Awesome.

	29-05-2005 19:08									#21
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quote: Originally posted by Worthingtons I woudnt say he was Man 1-0 Bank though, In fact, I'd say in Cashing the check, the bank making other ****-ups and him getting the media on the case, he was 3-0 by half in this story. By not even trying to keep his money, or running off with it to some obscure country he let the bank get back to 3-3 and they won on penalties

Thing is though, that the money were never meant to be his from the onset, so IMO he did the right thing.

Asmodean

	29-05-2005 19:50									#22
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but he deserved it after being bullied by the bank's thugs.

	29-05-2005 19:53									#23
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But the bank earned it back after they apologized.

	29-05-2005 19:57									#24
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They apologized unsincerely, and only because they were pwned, and their bullying techniques failed. They knew the law, lied about the law to their customer, and got pwned, big time. **** them.

	29-05-2005 20:07									#25
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Oh the apology had to be sincere then? It's a company dude, when a cashier says "hi", "thank you" and "come again", it's because its his friggin job, not because he sees you as a jolly mate of his. This is about as sincere politeness you can get. He compained about customer service, they rectified it.

And he's earning cash from it anyhow.

Last edited by Colon on 29-05-2005 at 20:16

	29-05-2005 20:11									#26
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The apology has to be sincere by the people in the company that bullied him and behaved in a rude manner. And since I think that they need to learn their lesson, I think that he should get the money ( or donate it to charity).

This is, of course, not the law, just my personal feeling.

	29-05-2005 20:21									#27
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He got an apology from the CEO, the CEO represents the company as a whole. If those people were rude in their function, the CEO rectified it in his function.

And neither is the law, but a personal feeling that the money wasn't rightfully his.

Besides, he may have won in a US court, but I doubt the same would have been in the case in Belgium, since we have a habit of paying a lot of attention at intent.

	29-05-2005 20:35									#28
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quote: He got an apology from the CEO, the CEO represents the company as a whole. If those people were rude in their function, the CEO rectified it in his function.

It's not just a company - it's also a group of people. All the people that mishandled his service should apologize to him, because they're *******s - let's make it clear, they ****ed up ( sort of ), and wanted to bully him into thinking that he's a criminal and a fraud?

again, **** them.

	29-05-2005 20:43									#29
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They were doing it in their function. It wasn't like they were thinking "hey, I don't like that geezer's nose, let's pick on him!". The company's consumer service may have sucked but those people were just trying to do their job. And the CEO is their superior, so he's just as qualified to apologize as those people were.
Heck, most likely those people would have needed their bosses' consent to apologize in their function in first place - so what difference does it make?

	29-05-2005 20:48									#30
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Besides, read the story. First he withdraws the money from his account, mentions how wonderful this is being indebted and stuff, then starts fantasing about being rich and Lexuses, then he goes all Robin Hood and finally he's supposedly fighting a war of principle and decent consumer service. Whateverrrr.