Make an error on your payment slip and prepare for a 1,000 RSD fine

Make an error on your payment slip and prepare for a 1,000 RSD fine

Vladimir Vasic from the Association of Banks and Dejan Gavrilovic from Efektiva spoke about this on TV Prva.

"This is the internal business policy of every bank, and we as the Association of Banks do not enter into what kind of pricing policy banks will have. I can understand banks in this one. I once had a case where I paid some life insurance and inserted the numbers wrongly. I didn't even realize I was wrong. After about three months, I received a warning from the insurance company that I was owing the money to settle my duties. And then it's a process that goes on, you have to prove you were wrong. In the end, I was lucky that the man to whom the insurance was paid accepted that I had mistakenly permuted the numbers and the insurance decided to let me go with a three months delay ", stated Vladimir Vasic.

Today, we have so many ways to make payments without retyping numbers, such as QR code payments, he said.

"Those 1,000 dinars are probably to deter the clients to type something by hand, that is, to redirect them to use mentioned payment methods," added Vasic, noting that there is a possibility of a permanent order and automatic payment of bills with a completely minimized possibility of making an error with numbers.

"Yes, it may seem like a punishment, a fine, but there are essentially few people who make mistakes and there are few people who will pay those 1,000 dinars," Vasic pointed out.

When it comes to charging those, whose complaints are proven wrong, he thinks that is the right thing to do:

"Just like in tennis, you have the right to request a challenge three or four times, to ask the umpire if you are right, but after that, you can't. This could be a similar option we can find here."

Dejan Gavrilovic from Efektiva thinks that this is still not right.

"Both the Law on Obligations and the Law on Payment Services stipulate that charging for service must be a reflection of the actual service costs. So, here we have these 1,000 dinars, representing a penalty for a wrong number inserted. As Mr. Vasic said, banks want the customers to use new technologies. For years we have had a campaign where banks were increasingly motivating customers to do the work of the bank. We had the campaign to switch to electronic payment, now we have a situation where the user does everything himself - types, clicks, and before that must have the tools, internet, etc. and then if one number is wrong, the customer will be fined by the bank for doing a banker’s job ", Gavrilovic pointed out.

He also added that a question arises as to what happens when a bank employee inserts the digits and the payment does not go through.