I'm really struggling to not blow up at my dad at this point. So... He says his wallet was stolen. Fine.
1. In order to pick up money from such a money transfer, you need to provide your ID. I asked him if he has his ID. He said yes.
2. He needs $126, but there are extra fees that mean I need to pay $143 to send him $126. This is dumb as hell. If he really just needs a bill paid, I can just pay $126 for him. He doesn't understand s*** about anything at all related to technology, so he doesn't understand paying bills online. He has terrible credit, so he doesn't understand paying bills via credit card (or debit card treated used as a credit card).
3. He DIDN'T have his ID when he went to pick the money up last night (wallet was stolen, this is what I thought would happen originally). He only had some kind of copy of it that they wouldn't accept. He had some lady helping him who had HER ID. So what I had to do was cancel the original transaction and put the money transfer in HER name so that SHE could receive the money and give it to him. I went to cancel the transaction, then called her back to get her information for the money transfer. When I called her back, she said he f***ing LEFT.
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I'll get my $143 back in 10 business days.
4. He calls me this morning saying to resend the money in his name because some lady who works at the store is going to vouch for his identity. I went ahead and did it. I'm now down $246 until I get the other money back in 10 business days.
5. He gets to the store and the lady who was going to vouch for him is gone. He wanted me to cancel the SECOND money transfer and put it in some OTHER friend's name who is now helping him. God damn it. So then I had to cancel the SECOND one and do a THIRD one. I'm now down $429 ($143 after 10 business days from now) just so my dad can have $126.
This is absolutely the last first and last time I'm giving him a f***ing dime directly. Shit.
I'm so glad I started saving money up years ago. If I was still living paycheck to paycheck, I essentially would have just had to tell him to go shove it because I wouldn't have $400+ to spare like this. Maybe that would have been a better thing to do in this situation any way.
Oh well.
