Originally Posted by shakran

This is a common practice with banks. They stack the day's charges in order of amount from highest to lowest. That way 10 transactions that should have only overdrawn the account on the last transaction end up overdrawing it on 9 of them, and they get to charge you beaucoup fees. Even better than that, let's say you start with that 10 bucks. You withdraw 9, then deposit 20 in cash and withdraw another 19. They'll stack it so that the withdrawals are processed first, overdrafting the account, before the deposit. It should be illegal.