• @SmoothLiquidation
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    111 day ago

    By putting the dollar sign first on checks it prevents someone from changing 100$ into 1100$

      • @IzzyScissor
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        111 day ago

        But that’s why you put the “and no cents ~~~~~~~~” at the end

        • @[email protected]
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          31 day ago

          You could do a similar thing for the other style:

          100$

          Vs

          -------- 100$

          I would write it $100, but only because it’s convention, either method has the same issue and solutions.

        • @essteeyou
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          31 day ago

          That’s the text portion, not the numeric portion.

          • @IzzyScissor
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            31 day ago

            Oh, I still do the $100.°/oo~~~~ in the numeric section too.

            • @essteeyou
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              21 day ago

              I see. I assumed you meant the words because you put the words in your comment.

              Seems like a good idea to do both, as you say.

              I don’t really write a lot of checks any more.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 day ago

      aren’t they supposed to look at the fully written out

      “One hundred dollars 0/100” part of the check. Either way someone can slip in a 1 or a zero somewhere in the paper.

      • @Dozzi92
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        31 day ago

        The they in your sentence, at one point in time, referred to me and my three buddies who worked for Commerce Bank back in the oughts. They left four kids, one of them 18 and the rest 17, in charge of a bank sometimes. I may be personally responsible for commerce bank ceasing to exist.

    • @BeMoreCareful
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      71 day ago

      I had to write a check a few months ago, it was like divining an ancient language.

      It cleared through, so I guess I got it right.

    • @systemglitch
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      21 day ago

      Pretty sure the printing out of the amount with letters prevents that.

      One hundred dollars -------xx/00