Yes, please Enter, Mark, Spend (LA to Boston) (m)

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Subject: Yes, please Enter, Mark, Spend (LA to Boston) (m)
Posted by HMG in Mass on November 13, 2002 at 11:19 AM:

In Reply to: Problem--Can't enter bills I just spent. posted by James on November 13, 2002 at 9:11 AM:

Oh and then, there are those cases… when the bill gets on a plane from LA to Boston, with a delayed entry and receives subsequent hits.

Person A gets the bill in LA (incorrectly does not enter the bill first… EMS) and spends it. The bill gets on a plane, and is found by person B who enters it in Boston, within a short period of time. Person A remembers the bill and (incorrectly not following EMS) enters the bill. Now, person C finds the bill one block away in Boston and enters the bill. But the second entry depicts LA (incorrectly - delayed entry). Other people complain that bill has traveled too far, too soon to be valid; then request from Hank that the bill be deleted.

It's a big headache to straighten out. Sometimes, it's easier to just delete all the entries or block the bill entirely from WG for entry. This may seem like a hypothetical situation, but similar events have happened in the past. It's easier for all involved to just remember to Enter, Mark, Spend. *smile* - Thanks,

"Second, some people break the rules by stamping and/or marking their bills, writing down the serial numbers, and entering into the database AFTER THEY'VE SPENT the bills! If someone finds the bills before the person got home to enter
the bills, you'll get no history. Worse yet, when they do finally enter the bills, the hits are out of order, and then THEY write me
to complain. Even worse still, some people just plain forget to enter the bills or lose the paper with the numbers. None of this
would happen if everyone followed the User Guidelines."

Good Luck & Happy Georgering!
HMG in MAss,

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: I did not know that we are not allowed to enter bills that we don't have.

: Yesterday, I go to eat at Chick-fil-a. I get a $5 bill back. I write down the serial number, stamp it, then spend it at Walmart. So, I go home, enter this bill, I indicate that I no longer have it, and then get a message saying I can't record it, since I no longer have it.

: I don't think this is fair for every situation. I think I should be able to enter a bill that I spent only within the last hour or so. The timestamp doesn't have to be exactly on the hour, anyway. I would like to think that this message referred to a longer period of time, and that entering bills you just spent, is okay.

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Re: Yes, please Enter, Mark, Spend (LA to Boston) James 10:56 PM 11/13/2002
- Thanks for understanding and for replying (m) Hans M. Guy - HMG in MAss 12:09 AM 11/14/2002

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: Oh and then, there are those cases… when the bill gets on a plane from LA to Boston, with a delayed entry and receives subsequent hits. : Person A gets the bill in LA (incorrectly does not enter the bill first… EMS) and spends it. The bill gets on a plane, and is found by person B who enters it in Boston, within a short period of time. Person A remembers the bill and (incorrectly not following EMS) enters the bill. Now, person C finds the bill one block away in Boston and enters the bill. But the second entry depicts LA (incorrectly - delayed entry). Other people complain that bill has traveled too far, too soon to be valid; then request from Hank that the bill be deleted. : It's a big headache to straighten out. Sometimes, it's easier to just delete all the entries or block the bill entirely from WG for entry. This may seem like a hypothetical situation, but similar events have happened in the past. It's easier for all involved to just remember to Enter, Mark, Spend. *smile* - Thanks, : : "Second, some people break the rules by stamping and/or marking their bills, writing down the serial numbers, and entering into the database AFTER THEY'VE SPENT the bills! If someone finds the bills before the person got home to enter : the bills, you'll get no history. Worse yet, when they do finally enter the bills, the hits are out of order, and then THEY write me : to complain. Even worse still, some people just plain forget to enter the bills or lose the paper with the numbers. None of this : would happen if everyone followed the User Guidelines." : Good Luck & Happy Georgering! : HMG in MAss, : <marquee behavior="right" width=14% scrollamount=2><a href="http://www.wheresgeorge.com/user_profile_popup.php3?ukey=WGs6sacxF9L/w" target="_blank"><font color="#FF0099">H_M_G___ P_r_o_f_i_l_e</font></a></marquee> : : : I did not know that we are not allowed to enter bills that we don't have. : : Yesterday, I go to eat at Chick-fil-a. I get a $5 bill back. I write down the serial number, stamp it, then spend it at Walmart. So, I go home, enter this bill, I indicate that I no longer have it, and then get a message saying I can't record it, since I no longer have it. : : I don't think this is fair for every situation. I think I should be able to enter a bill that I spent only within the last hour or so. The timestamp doesn't have to be exactly on the hour, anyway. I would like to think that this message referred to a longer period of time, and that entering bills you just spent, is okay.

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