[The Procrastinator]

(Original post by PinkMobilePhone)
I received a letter yesterday saying I owed £106 to the uni library

I've emailed them challenging it.

How's that going?

I tried to challenge them but they said we put posters up, we emailed everyone, we told everyone in sight...that books are due on the 5th! Well I didn't see anything

[bibliotheque]

(Original post by Sanyore)
Should I look out for you in the Guinness book of World Records in a few decades?

Probably - according to an email I got last week I'm also fairly overdue at my school library... Tuesday marked the 1294th day of lateness for my book loan, oops!

[bibliotheque]

(Original post by eulerwaswrong)
specificly "welsh rain"? - by far the worst type of rain

Yes - this is very true! I thought I would try and appear intellectual whilst on a two week camping trip and so whilst hiking through the Harlech valleys I brought a giant book about European expansionism, needless to say it didn't quite fit in my rucksack and got totally drenched somewhere between a field with many sheep and a field with fewer sheep...

[PinkMobilePhone]

(Original post by The Procrastinator)
How's that going?

I tried to challenge them but they said we put posters up, we emailed everyone, we told everyone in sight...that books are due on the 5th! Well I didn't see anything

I only emailed them yesterday (after I got the letter) so no reply yet.

My defence is that they said they sent me email reminders...but seen as how I've been a temporary leaver since November, my uni email account has been inactive, so this letter is the first reminder I've ever had.

Okay it's my own fault for not realising I had an out of date book, but still £106 is ridiculous. Especially as they say that £18 is a "billing fee". That's extortionate - how does sending a letter cost £18?

Craziness.

[meenu89]

£7

[isnt_it_ironic]

None! I work at the library so no fines and free CDs and DVDs

[Em_maK]

Meant to pay around £40 for books I had at sixth form, but they never asked, so I never paid

[azhao]

1p

[francescarella]

75p

[SaphMB]

I currently owe my library around £30

[RightSaidJames]

£12, but the friendly Music Library only charged me £5 because I was apologetic.

[Kevin J]

79p Bastards.

So I went to the library and shouted at the old women at the desk nearly gave her a heart attack.

[EskimoJo]

About £14 or so, but for more than one book. Was so annoyed with myself, could've just bought 2 or 3 of the books!
Was really annoyed with my most recent fine. Someone requested one of the books I was using to revise for exams and I knew it must be someone on my course, but the choice was either go without the book or take the fine. Was about £4 in the end and it just felt so silly that two people could need a book as much as each other, yet I lose money because I have it. The person could've found another book, but maybe because they didn't remove their request I was still getting charged! Stupid system! Grrr!

[Miss Monkey]

£4.50 because three items were three days late Luckily I noticed then I hadn't renewed them because it was the holidays and I couldn't get in to pay the fine, and you can't renew online once the fine is >£5. Would have been in massive trouble if I hadn't remembered that day as then couldn't have renewed any of my books for about three weeks!

[The Procrastinator]

(Original post by forpolarbears)
I got billed $150 for a book, but they gave me all but $10 back when I produced the book. It was over summer vacation, because apparently I was not "enrolled" or something. Arg.

What the hell?! I gave their sodding books back and they still want me to pay

[Absurd]

£45, but I managed to get it cancelled.

[Indeed.]

I think it was about £5, I'd taken several Eng Lit book guides out from the library (which didn't really help with my GCSE).

[The Procrastinator]

(Original post by Absurd)
£45, but I managed to get it cancelled.

How?! It's just not faaaaaaair

[artcrazy]

mine was about 25 pounds!!! and i've only paid a third of it!!!! i'm trying to avoid the library!

[happydinosaur]

I have £12.20 in accumulated fines at uni. Biggest individual fine was £6.40 out of that.

I think I owe my local library at home money because I requested books from another library in the service and didn't realise that it costed loads to do that and then I forgot to renew them. The council are shutting that library down though and I doubt I will ever go to any of the others so I'm hoping whatever I owe will get lost in the system somewhere.