Mar 2 2009Paypal Makes Mistake, Accuses Man Of Pumping $81,400,836,908 Worth Of Gas
Juan Zamora is a man. A man with a '94 Camaro which undoubtedly has some Rad to the power of Sick flames painted on the sides. Anyway, he bought $26 worth of petrol at the station and paid with his Paypal debit card. Only problem was, Paypal reported he pumped $81,400,836,908 worth of petrol! Now that's a lot of hot air gas!
He only learned of the astounding figure when he received an email later that afternoon informing him that his debit card, which started out with $90 on it, was maxed out.
"Somebody from a foreign country who spoke in broken English argued with me for 10 to 15 minutes," Zamora said. " 'Did you get the gas?' he asked. Like I had to prove that I didn't pump $81,400,836,908 in gas!"He would have needed more than 3 billion fill-ups of the amount he actually pumped into his tank in order to reach that outrageous sum. When Zamora returned to the Conoco gas station, he said, the attendant would not believe him until he showed her the printout of the PayPal receipt.
Finally Juan was able to set the record straight. And if you even think about trying to pull any of that nonsense on me, Paypal, and you are going to get it. And by 'it' I mean some provocative photos of yours truly and a firebomb. ZOMG, look at the hair on -- *HORF* uh-oh.... *WHOOOSH!* Justice: a dish best served flaming.
PayPal Charges $81,400,836,908 For $26 Tank Of Gas [consumerist]
Thanks to twellve, who once saw a guy drive off with the gas pump still in his car's filler hole. She tried notifying him while he was leaving, but he just thought she was waving at him. His car exploded moments later.
Reader Comments
1. koOPa - March 2, 2009 1:27 PM
Shits wizzeak!
2. Jenny - March 2, 2009 1:31 PM
FUURRRSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTT111!!!
3. strabo - March 2, 2009 1:31 PM
Why did this go up, get removed and then go up again? :S
4. hmmmm - March 2, 2009 1:39 PM
no biggie.. i spend 81 billion in gas all the time :o
5. Rook - March 2, 2009 1:41 PM
It's obvious he didn't tank so much. HE DRANK IT!!
6. Spikey DaPikey - March 2, 2009 1:43 PM
Lame, paypal sucks.
7. OJ's Mom - March 2, 2009 1:44 PM
That's about what I spent this morning to fill up my hoopty.
8. Pew³ - March 2, 2009 1:46 PM
So what happened? Did he have to pay it?
Ahhrrrggghhh, you left me hanging!!!
9. Angel Mass - March 2, 2009 1:51 PM
So there is where all the Oil is going
10. LSDiesel - March 2, 2009 1:53 PM
This isn't that funny. Or gadgety. I have expectations when I come to this site DAMN IT! I want to see quality posts and stupid comments and all we got now is the stupid comments!!!
11. Pew³ - March 2, 2009 2:04 PM
Stupid is as stupid does.
12. Pew³ - March 2, 2009 2:05 PM
I'm sorry I ruined your New Year's Eve party, Lieutenant Dan. She tasted like cigarettes.
13. gizmoduck - March 2, 2009 2:07 PM
God damn it, Gump! You're a god damn genius! This is the most outstanding answer I have ever heard. You must have a goddamn I.Q. of 160. You are goddamn gifted, Private Gump.
14. Pat - March 2, 2009 2:35 PM
Phht! If you think gas is expensive, you should check out the price of dark matter. It costs $81,400,837,000 just to fill up my spaceship!
15. twellve - March 2, 2009 3:03 PM
PayPal are now claiming it was due to a voice mail error:
"... a spokeswoman for PayPal, Sara Gorman, said Friday that misunderstanding was the result of a mistake in a voice mail from a PayPal processing partner about the transaction that put the merchant identification number where the amount should have been."
oh, well THAT'S a relief. still retarded.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29418529/
16. Tetsou - March 2, 2009 3:07 PM
@15...what makes the story better is that paypal would still believe someone could charge that much money and they probably would have taken him to court over it
paypal is a piece of shit that steals your money and has the worst customer support ever lol..i stopped using it once I got an empty box from an ebay purchase, and ebay customer support told me to talk to paypal. Paypal said "well, he's got a tracking number, so it's perfectly fine"
17. grammar police - March 2, 2009 3:12 PM
dude, your post makes little sense.
"undoubtedly has some Rad to the power of Sick flames painted on the sides"
"And if you even think about trying to pull any of that nonsense on me, Paypal, and you are going to get it."
...you drunk already?
18. bR1an - March 2, 2009 3:28 PM
Paypal=fascist baby mudering pieces of $hit. They focked me over so hard once that I actually enjoyed it. I also got the HI V from them.
19. bR1an - March 2, 2009 3:30 PM
"Oops I used a bad word?"
gimme a F ing break
20. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 2, 2009 3:31 PM
17 - It makes sense if you mentally insert commas where needed.
OK, so a company that processes tens of thousands (possibly more) transactions per day made a mistake, big deal. It's fixed now. I will say whatever CSR that spoke with this guy is an idiot.
21. Elwood Moose - March 2, 2009 3:53 PM
He was obviously pumping premium.
Pass the gorditas, please.
22. Tennist0 - March 2, 2009 4:28 PM
paypal is after us all!! its the new skynet! after google though. I bet those flame decals were pretty rad to the power of sick, you know, i always wanted to see how the ladies react to flame pinstripes on my legs and arms *breaking out the shamwows(just in case the paint gets on the floor) and the paint (is car paint toxic? ah well, ill use it anyways!)
23. zandar - March 2, 2009 5:26 PM
everytime I read "rad to the power of sick" I almost choke to death. Just FYI. Please, think of the little people! and the children, can't you hear their crying?
24. Tennist0 - March 2, 2009 6:51 PM
23- no, its an awesome phrase, in fact... get this, its rad to the power of sick, its that awesome of a phrase
25. OtterMan - March 2, 2009 8:26 PM
To be honest, I'm kinda surprised Paypal have backed down over this one. With their reputation I'd expect them to demand the money, say he definitely took the $81,400,836,908 worth of fuel and then proceed to take his house, his car and all his belongings. Oh and also lay claim to any income that the next four generations of his family may make.
Not that I think Paypal are a bunch of lying, stealing conartists of course...
26. kat - March 2, 2009 9:22 PM
"which undoubtedly has some Rad to the power of Sick flames painted on the sides"
i almost died when i read that
27. Daisy - March 2, 2009 11:13 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie NEver BAck Down where Max pulls a prank, and enters Curious George as a candidate for president. Unfortunately the monkey won, on the paltform of making the world love america. His first act was to spend so much tax money that the economy crashed, and America became equal to many 3rd world nations. In fact America became so poor, that Soccer became popular.
After he was done, a half tank of gas cost $81,400,836,908.
28. feckless - March 3, 2009 7:31 AM
@25 Paypal sucks the hair off anchovie balls, regurgitates it onto the floorboard and saves it for later when they are not quite full enough from sucking the rice out of starving third world ghetto sweatshop bowls.
29. abc1ss - March 3, 2009 1:04 PM
Well, someone said ***C e l e b m i n g l e. C 0 M*** is a good place to be regarded as a home. many celebrities treat their as their home. They do not exclose themselves. They put so many hot and sensitive news about themselves on that site. I like to know them on that site. But I do not know to talk about what they write. That's secret for the members on that site. Want to know ur lovers' life? That's a good way to read them.
30. Jim Jones - March 3, 2009 3:00 PM
What a shock, Paypal does something shady then tries to shaft their customers. Completely out of character for them. Really.
31. John - March 3, 2009 10:52 PM
at $2.20 a gallon and 20 miles to the gallon, he would get around the world 9767320.7 times with that much gas. Along the equator.
32. bethmoth - March 4, 2009 4:19 PM
it was for a hummer. no mistake