jackofallgeeks | Fun With Finances

So, right, for the last few weeks, I've been looking over my Credit Card account, and the Balance plus Available Credit has been comming up about $220 short of my Credit Limit. Under normal circumstances, I would have every right to be concerned - $220 doesn't just get up and walk away. But I knew where it went... kind of...

See, at Nekocon, when we went to check in, there was much confussion and the charge -initially- went onto my card. this was cleared up at Check-out when Claire changed it to her card, and all was fine and dandy. I called her up a week after the fact to make sure she had infact made the proper reparations.

So there was a -pending- charge on my card, but I knew it would never come through. And I saw my other charges - Sushi, gas, shoes - come up on the bill and everything was fine. Except my Available Credit was dipping a bit low. When it hit $32 yesterday, I decided to try and remedy this - it'd been sitting there inactive all month, and i'm going to need my card for Gas when I go to visit Rachel on Tuesday.

I call up Customer Service, and everything gets confirmed - my balance, my available credit, and the inactive charge. The guy says that it should drop off by itself in the next couple days (three weeks after it came in, on the 8th - that'd be the, what, 29th?) but I can't really wait that long, so I ask if there's anything that can be done to remove it from the card, and he said I would have to call the Inn and have then call and remove it themselves.

So I went to find the number for the Executive Center. First I checked nekocon.org, but as the convention is over, they don't have much of a site at all anymore. I checked HamptonInn.com, as that was the Inn we stayed at, but it was just a page for a SINGLE Hampton Inn somewhere up in Maine or something. I finally remember HamptonRoads.com, as we were in Virginia Beach, and do a quick and easy search that gets me the number.

So I call them, and after switching through a couple lines, I get Accounting, explain my predicament, and they say that at Check-out they would have given permission to droip the charge. I told them I'd just spoken with my Creditor, and THEY said to have the Hotel people call and get it dropped. SO, I left them my information and they said they'd take care of it.

AND SO (I think I say 'so' too much...), I should have my full credit availability ready to go for my trip. Fun stuff.

I love finances.