witty claims

Receipts

What got paid.

Real claims, with the names left out. What was asked, what was let go, and what came back.

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Every number here points to a real message. People stay private. Businesses are named only with their say-so.

Two sizes of wrong, settled

PETTY CLAIMA bank, a payment held
Removalists kept waiting
1 hr
Cost of the wait
$80
Hold music, blood pressure
not claimed
Days to answer
3
Asked$80
Paid$100
Rounded up

The bank that rounded up

Cam’s blurb to come.

A test payment of $1 went through instantly. The real one, for a sofa, was held as a scam check, and two removalists spent an hour watching the app refresh. The complaint asked for one thing: the $80 the hour cost. Not the hold music, not the stress. Three days later the bank apologised and paid $100, and said so in writing.

  • Against: a bank. One message, to its complaints team.
  • Asked: $80. Let go: the time on the phone.
  • Result: $100, paid in three days, no AFCA file.
PETTY CASHA former housemate
Two weeks’ notice
$700 waived
Cleaning levy
$50 $8
Two extra nights
$100 $8
The mirror
$150 $8
Net off for the cream
−$8
Total$16
Will accept$8
Bygones, lemonade

Petty, and happy to prove it

Cam’s blurb to come.

A lodger left, a mirror didn’t survive, and the last messages ran hot. “Petty” was his word. So the claim took him at it: $850 of things that could have been asked for, listed and let go, and a petty $8 for the rest. The point was never the money. Paying $8 is the acknowledgement, and refusing it looks worse than paying.

  • Against: a person. Private, always.
  • Could have claimed: $300 or more. Asked: $8.
  • Result: to come

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