I once (long ago, before I knew you) used PayPal to pay LJ 99 cents to send someone a "virtual gift" on their birthday, not knowing that the paycheck hadn't been officially recorded yet, and we got a warning from the bank that the 99 cents had theoretically made us overdrawn. (Since this was the first time, and since it was such a tiny amount, and since the paycheck arrived less than 24 hours later, they "forgave" us, and we didn't have to pay the fee, thank the gods!)
You'd think that with all the high-tech electronic trading going on in the banking world, all transactions would be more or less instantaneous... but noooooo....
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You'd think that with all the high-tech electronic trading going on in the banking world, all transactions would be more or less instantaneous... but noooooo....