Don’t Buy Checks From the Bank

Don’t buy checks from the bank! I made that mistake on a couple of occasions and was shocked at the prices I paid. Although checks can seem pricy anyway, the difference from buying them online, rather than the bank can be huge. It seems to me that the banks are not really in the business of selling checks anyway. When I opened a new account, at a different bank, there was no mention of checks past the initial sample checks given at that time. It was as if the purchase of checks was my idea. It almost seemed like a hassle to them to have to worry about it anyway. I had just thought it would be easier to order them right then and there, than to get online and go through the hassle of setting up the new information through a Check Ordering Service. Boy was I wrong.

I always order duplicate checks, as my husband and I are not great at keeping a log of expenditures. I need that carbon copy of the original to keep track of our finances and balance our account. Although I was sure I had specified that to the bank, I ended up without the duplicate. What an annoyance that was. Here I was out of the sample checks and now I had to get the others redone. The most discouraging part of the whole thing however, was that I had looked at an advertisement for Checks online and realized that I had spent so much more than I would have spent going with online ordering. They really do make it easy and there are so many choices. I was mad at myself for not sticking with what I knew to be the best way to get checks.

Now I always take that moment to reorder checks online. They keep all my information on file and it is just a matter of punching in the number of boxes I want and any changes in style or pattern that I might want. More often than not, I just want more of the same, and that is so easy to do. The best part is that I know I am getting the checks at the lowest possible rate.