HAH! I just saw an error in a TV commercial!

[thewayne]

It was for the Visa Check Card, the one from Bank of America (IIRC) where your change is put into a savings account. They showed a card being swiped through a reader, it was one of those cards that have a photo on it. The photo was oriented so that you could see it properly. The problem is that the magnetic stripe is at the top of the card, thus the card was swiped through the reader upside down and would not have been read.

Comments

[deborak]

Good god, that's the most annoying and paternalistic "benefit" I've ever heard a bank offer. People can't balance their checkbooks as it is, and now they'll have these odd little amounts that don't match their store receipts.

Then again, if they're stupid enough in the first place to accept a bank card that steals extra money from them (and naively wait a year and a month to get the ballyhooed 'matching' deposit), then they deserve to be micromanaged.

[snark]Won't someone think of the homeless folk who will no longer get the benefit of spare change?[/snark]