Swiped Twice

As planned, I went to office and passed some working materials to my colleague. Suddenly I had the urged to go shopping in Bangsar. I am being random again. I managed to get myself a tee and a shorts. I was happily swiping my card for all the purchases. The problem comes after reaching home, I checked on my Maybank2u account and I found that my card has been swiped twice for the same item!

Charged twice RM159.00

The next day I went back to the shop and told them about it. The merchant made some calls to the financial department, and then to the bank. After half an hour, she said the first transaction was actually pending, but the staff thought it was failed so the staff made another transaction. She told me that the bank would credit the money back into my account.

Refunded

The next day I checked on it, my money is credited. Lucky! Not that I blame them for the mistake they made. Apparently, they do have a bad record. One of my friends bought some stuff from that shop using credit card as well. Few days later, the bank called her and confirmed with her if she did purchase any air tickets using the credit card that cost RM4000, which she did not. After some track back made, they found the last transaction was made at this shop.

I do not know if it is mere coincidence or something are behind all these. Well, just a piece of advice for people who are going to get something using credit card, always double check!