Cash Machine refueses to give me $ I ask for, oh well

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I went to my local Bank of America today, the same one I go to on a very regular basis, to get some cash from the ATM. I put in my request for $160, and the machine responded, "Cash Requested Excessive, try a smaller amount." So I asked for $140 (my regular withdrawal amount) and bingo transaction approved, here your cash.

Very odd.

Has anyone else had this experiance?

-- Helium (Heliumavid@yahoo.com), December 28, 1999

Answers

It happened to me too!! I tried entering $200 and the machine responded, "Cash Requested Excessive, try a smaller amount." So, I tried $180 and the machine responded, "Nope, still too high. Try a smaller amount." So, I tried $160 and the machine responded, "NO NO NOO!! THAT'S STILL TOO MUCH!!!! Try a MUCH smaller amount." So, I tried $140 and the machine responded, "YOU'RE HOARDING FOR Y2K AREN'T YOU???? DON'T YOU KNOW THAT YOU ONLY NEED MONEY FOR A 3 DAY STORM?? TRY $100, THAT SHOULD BE PLENTY!" I was really pissed off at this point, so I tried $100 like the machine suggested and the machine responded, "FORGET IT, WE ALREADY GAVE COKIE ROBERTS $60, GO BORROW SOME FROM HER AND LEAVE US ALONE." Then it ate my card.

Very odd.

Has anyone else had this experiance?

-- (atms@are.evil), December 28, 1999.


The T.V. politic program "This Week, with Sam Donaldson", was dedicated to Y2K this last Sunday. Sam wasn't there, but Cokie Roberts was. She made a quip that she couldn't get out the amount she wanted to from her ATM(I didn't realize ATM's had $1000 bills..LOL). FWIW.

-- CygnusXI (cygnus@black-hole.com), December 28, 1999.

Did someone change the spelling of experience and forget to tell me?

Very odd.

-- CygnusXI (cygnus@black-hole.com), December 28, 1999.


Actually, that's happened to me a number of times. The causes? Either my account funds were insufficient to meet my request, or the ATM machine's stock of cash was insufficient to meet my request.

-- Michelle (c@ntdo.it), December 28, 1999.

Been taking out $300 a day for a week or so, ATM is too happy to do it. I know I will get a refusal if I keep it up, happened a few years ago when I did this same thing and had to call the bank to get it enabled again. Some kind of trigger or something alerts them.

-- hamster (hamster@mycage.com), December 28, 1999.


The account has plenty of money in it, and the guy after me got cash, so it was not out of dollars.

Interesting

-- Helium (Heliumavid@yahoo.com), December 28, 1999.


Tsk tsk tsk, folks ... just now going to the ATMS? You should have been setting it aside gradually for a while now! ;-)

-- Bruce (broeser@ccgnv.net), December 28, 1999.

Bruce, Since the general public has not been rushing the ATMs, we are just going back for seconds. Gosh, I could use another $500.

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), December 28, 1999.

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