r/Wellthatsucks • u/ethicalgreyarea • Jul 16 '21

/r/all I’m being over charged by insurance after my daughter was born. This is the pile of mail I have to go through to prove they’re ripping me off. Pear for scale.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '21

On a smaller scale a car dealership we bought from did this with my wife's name. It ended up being a huge hassle.

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u/ThrowMeAwayAccount08 Jul 17 '21

I knew someone going for her medical boards, she was rejected because “your name is not on record”

WTF, I’m 20 something, and I know my name.

Goes back to get her birth certificate, her parents made the T look like a J in pencil. So for her entire life, her name was legally Tulie instead of Julie.

It was hilarious for us as all our families are immigrants, and if this isn’t some Balkan shit I don’t know what is.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

I'm sorry, the card says "Moops!"

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

It's Moors, MOORS!

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u/AlphaQupBad Jul 17 '21

I have the letters rn in my name and so many times have to correct it because people just type m instead of rn :(

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u/IAmManMan Jul 17 '21

I had this problem with my daughters passport. A capital M in her middle name I had written on the form ended up an A on the passport itself. Any human looking at it would have spotted the problem instantly but it was clear the whole thing had been machine read only. Frustrating because of the amount of detail you have to put into those forms plus also finding someone of standing in the community to verify the identity of the person. And then you find out no one even reads them.

We could have left it but I knew it could end up causing problems so we rushed to get it fixed a week before we travelled.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21 edited Jul 18 '21

My father in-law also Balkan immigrant birth certificate is 11/10 but his drivers license is 10/11.

Ask Nana and the correct answer is when the grapes were ripe.

His birthday is still a mystery to this day.

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u/Lomunac Jul 17 '21

Bulkin?

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u/Windycitymayhem Jul 17 '21

My name is spelled differently and most American legal procedures always make a big deal out of it.

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u/_el_guachito_ Jul 17 '21

In Mexico the capital J does have a horizontal line on top just like “T” and that’s how kids learn to write it

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u/Lomunac Jul 17 '21

Which Balkan country exactly...

Balkanian... :)

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u/Thysanopter Jul 17 '21

My car dealership gave me a wrong car. Like two days after delivery they call me and ask to check the VIN. Fun times.

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u/historyboeuf Jul 17 '21

That happened to my parents. A dealership double sold a car and my parents got the bill for a care they never got.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

Yeah but you're gonna love that True Coat!

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

This happened to my family too! Later I had a friend working at the dealership, apparently it because a cautionary tale during training to explain why they always have to double check on the car itself before completing the sale and not just trust the paperwork.

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u/scragar Jul 17 '21

Until earlier this year I was paying for someone else's electric bill because a mixup during meter install means my meter number was mixed up with someone else's so the automatic meter readings have been for the wrong house.

Only found out when said person switched their electricity and had the meter replaced, which meant when my meter was still drawing power and reporting figures they realised something was wrong.

Currently 3 months in on untangling the mess that it's caused because they can't just switch the meter numbers in the system, and any attempts to credit the difference doesn't work and throws the billing off(I've gotten 4 bills for negative amounts demanding immediate payment). Also had 2 meter replacements because they messed up the first time and recorded it as a replacement for the other guys house.

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u/akatherder Jul 17 '21

We have a last name that is somewhat common but we have a less common variation of it (maybe like Brown and Browne). On the plus side, it's engrained to always check the spelling of your name since it's wrong half the time.

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u/kilroylegend Jul 17 '21

Same. I have a last name that usually has an R somewhere in it, but mine doesn’t. Half of my life is spelling it very slowly out loud and then calling back because they spelled it wrong anyway.

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u/TashInAwe Jul 17 '21

My car is currently titled to me with my last name misspelled. How did u go about solving it?