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Found an old cheque from TCD

  • 29-12-2012 07:09PM
    #1
    Lunni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 156 ✭✭


    Hi everyone,

    I was cleaning out my bedroom today when I found an old cheque from TCD's accommodation service. It's for a deposit I paid in halls. It was sent while I was away for the summer and got put away in my drawer and I only came across it today! The thing is it's from 2005, so it's seven years old. I don't suppose there's any chance at all of them reissuing the cheque? I could really do with the money right now. Or should I just let it go?


Comments

  • #2
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,784 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Ask, the worst they can say is 'no'.


  • #3
    Lunni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 156 ✭✭Lunni


    Victor wrote: »
    Ask, the worst they can say is 'no'.

    Will do, just wondering if I should get my hopes up or not :)


  • #4
    Lunni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 156 ✭✭Lunni


    They told me to send in the cheque, so I got my hopes up. This was well over a month ago. I e-mailed again to ask what was going on and was told it isn't 'college policy' to reissue old cheques.

    Grand, but could they not have told me that in the first place, before I walked half an hour to the post office and half an hour back and paid for an overseas stamp?

    Typical Trinity. :mad: I knew it was a long shot but BLOODY WELL TELL ME THAT! Don't let me waste even more time and money. :mad: Not cool.


  • #5
    Ah nuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭Ah nuts


    They just wanted to destroy the evidence.


  • #6
    Lunni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 156 ✭✭Lunni


    Ah nuts wrote: »
    They just wanted to destroy the evidence.

    LOL. Most likely. Seriously unimpressed. Thought they might have done a favour for someone who could really use one, but no. Not shy to send me letters every few months begging me for money for their alumni this and alumni that, but not so quick to help out an ex-student who is really desperate. They couldn't just say, 'nice try, but p*ss off', no, they had to make me waste time and money and let me sit around for weeks like an idiot waiting for a cheque that was never going to arrive.


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  • #7
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,902 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    Well its over 7 years since it was issued, so they don't owe you the time of day. You should have asked them to cancel the payment & issue a new cheque, or a duplicate cheque. Either way you are at the mercy of their goodwill.


  • #8
    Lunni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 156 ✭✭Lunni


    Kristopherus wrote: »
    Well its over 7 years since it was issued, so they don't owe you the time of day. You should have asked them to cancel the payment & issue a new cheque, or a duplicate cheque. Either way you are at the mercy of their goodwill.

    I did ask for that, obviously. I was e-mailing someone from the Treasurer's Office. They gave me the impression they might well reissue it, which is why I sent in the cheque.

    I didn't expect them to issue me a new cheque. I knew it was a long shot. I knew they probably wouldn't. I just would have expected them to check 'college policy' BEFORE they asked me to go to the trouble of sending the cheque off from overseas (it was a real hassle to get to the post office with my current mobility issues). They could have said, 'no sorry, it's too late' but they didn't. They let me send it off, wait for weeks and then told me. And they probably wouldn't have bothered telling me at all if I hadn't got back in touch which to me is seriously thoughtless, discourteous and just all-around poor form.

    I know I'm unreasonably angry about this - I'm just frustrated because I'm ill, unemployed and absolutely broke. It just seems a bit cruel to let me wait around for weeks and not even bother to let me know. I'm aware they have plenty of other things to be doing, but would it have taken them 2 seconds to fire off an e-mail?


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