I am a library donor. Not of my free will, unfortunately, but due to the copious amounts of books that I tend to keep checked out ( at least 10 -15+ at any given time), when I forget to renew my books, it is a costly mistake.
So after the last time where I had to part with $15, I set upon a fool proof way of never paying late fees again. Yep - foolproof.
I set up a reminder with yahoo calendar to perpetually remind me to renew my library books every Friday. I have it also set at work in my Outlook. So every Thursday night I get my first reminder email. Then several times on Friday I get a reminder popup at work.
Foolproof, right?
Apparantaly not.
This past Friday, despite all the reminders to check my library books return time, I didn't do it. Yesterday I went into my account to look for a book, and realized quickly that I was going to need to make a trip to the library.
So, today after work (and my workout) I stopped by to find out what the damage was. $30.50 UGH! Thankfully they take credit cards, so I was able to earn some points (plus I only had maybe $2 cash on me.)
An expensive lesson reminding me to NOT ignore my reminders!
The Price of Ignoring Reminders
April 17th, 2008 at 02:35 am
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They start charging the day after it is due. All of my books were due on the 11th. So they were 5 days overdue x 18 books (I think).
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clubneary,
As far as I know they don't have anything like that, but I will check into it.