I have had at least three appalling experiences with California Check Cashing. Three strikes they're out. The first was when my former land lord issued two $600 checks to me, months apart, as a refund for a security deposit when I moved out of the apartment. The total he owed me was $1,200 but at first he only paid $600, so I did not want to cash it until he paid the rest because as I understood it, if I cashed partial payment that could be interpreted as paid in full. So when he finally coughed up the remaining $600 three months later, I needed the money pretty bad as I don't generally have $1,200 to blow. The check cashier made me stand in front of her teller window for AT LEAST one half hour where apparently she was conducting some sort of fraud investigation into me and my former land lord right in front of my eyes, then informs me she cannot cash these checks. I was livid. If she wanted to conduct a fraud investigation, she should have taken her criminal investigation to the back room instead of doing it right in front of my face. So, I decide not to give them any more business, for many more months. Then I need a pay day loan, and it is the only local service in this area. I take out a pay day loan with a bare minimum of complications. Great. I pay it off when do, then utilize it several more times, receive a larger than expected check, go in to pay them off early, and hope I am done. But I wasn't. I needed another advance, and went in, and AGAIN, the teller (the same one or not I do not know) from before makes me stand in front of her window for A HALF HOUR while she apparently conducted some fraud investigation, when I had been taking advances and repaying on a reliable basis. The do want my interest payments, right? Because if financial service is going to become a gambling operation, they need to the post the odds of the difficulty level I will encounter at the door. If my odds of getting through the process without being accused of being a criminal are 1 in five billion they need to tall me that and in return, I will give them THEIR odds of getting my business...ZERO!!!! The last episode, after which I went absolutely ballistic, was when that creepy fraud investigator teller had been telling me over the course of many months that I could "fill out an application online." I had told her, and the staff REPEATEDLY that I did not want anything other than a simple pay day advance. The online load application was for a loan of $600 or so which I DID NOT WANT. But the fraud investigator was committing fraud against the elderly herself, in my view, when she tried to dupe me into believing the online loan was for a pay day loan. IT IS NOT. The online loan is NOT A PAY DAY LOAN. Nice try lady. How many times did I tell you I did not want that loan? FIVE times, at least. So, not quite understanding what was going on, I go online to fill out the application thinking I am applying for a pay day loan instead of going into the store. What could go wrong? Nothing, right? WRONG! The stupid application gets stuck in a loop and I click a few buttons and unclick them to get it stuck out of the loop. Next thing I know I get an email informing me my loan has been DENIED because I checked off that I am in active military. So I fly down to town on my broom stick, give that fraudster a major piece of my mind, and then I report her to the feds for trying to get elderly, computer-illiterate people to part with their money. read more