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Originally posted by Peaches@Feb 13 2005, 07:19 AM
Many times a restaurant/bar will "clear" your debit card for the price of the meal plus 20+% interest to make sure you have the money in your account for the highest charge.
When the correct charge goes through it removes the extra.
Check it again next week before jumping down anyone's throat 
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I've never had that from a restaurant , peaches..
but the worse I had was travelling round the West Coast of the US..
Hotels preclearing room charges maxed out one of my cards. That was embarrassing ,and it took 5 days if I remember to take the hold off.
If I didn't have other cards it could have got ugly.
I mean really!!! You book the Presendential bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotels and they immediately swipe 5k off yr card , then book a suite at Disney for the next night...bang 2k , ;-)))
By the way the bungalow is the bomb..4 bedrooms and a private pool , and it really isn't that expensive sompared to the shithole suite they give you at the Disney hotel.
It actually is cheaper if aqnyone decides to do it , to get a nice 1 or 2 bedroom bungalow at the Beverly vHills and take a limo to Disney.Both will cost about a 1k
Disney really over charge....