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by martin-adams 3916 days ago
Yes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8152278.stm
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The article says "credit card", but I didn't think credit cards could have fees for negative balances - of course your credit card has a negative balance, that's the whole point. I think this must have been a debit card, or maybe one of those combo credit/debit cards. They also show an ATM withdrawal which suggests it's a debit card anyway.
That was obviously a fluke, and very unlikely that the transaction was actually cleared through the credit card network, it was probably an error at the bank's end of things.

A payment that (if the rumour is true) actually cleared through:

> Rumor has it that tech millionaire Victor Shvetsky purchased a business jet for $52 million on this card [American Express Centurion]

http://www.bjtonline.com/business-jet-news/supercharged-cred...

> It also waived the usual $15 overdraft fee.

That was nice of them

What would have happened - if the person had just decided to abscond without enquiring or paying this bill?
You know the old saying. If you owe the bank a hundred dollars, that's your problem; if you owe the bank twenty-three quadrillion dollars, that's the bank's problem.