Never happened to me but I would suggest you contact the bank to see what happened and go from there. If u have the money now, that way you can call walmart and pay for the TV or set it aside because the last thing you want is some nasty charge sending you into overdraft oblivion.

I try to never buy anything online with my debit card because of things like this. If they do decide to charge you and you have no funds or they screw you for more than the agreed purchase price, you have very little protection as you would have had with a CC. of course, these are not fail proof either.

actually, something similar happened to me a few yrs ago during black friday: i cant remember all details but i do recall that the cashier couldn't process my transaction because of a gift card was involved in the promotion (basically she sucked). she even asked that I come back and pay for the goods if the charge never showed. Like a crazy person, i did (because I wanted to be honest) but the new cashiers had no idea how to process it either. Basically, I got a nice set of knives plus a gift card for free. Not quite a tv but good enough. lol!!

tell your bank you lost your check book and debit account card they'll reissue it and you wont have to worry about it.

I had a similar situation with airline tickets once. I spent $300 to visit family and the charge never actually debited to my account. It's been years, clearly they had some system glitch and I flew for free.

Quote from printablecoupon : tell your bank you lost your check book and debit account card they'll reissue it and you wont have to worry about it.

+1 . . . Then if they come back to you in the future pay them.

The right thing to do is to contact Wal-Mart and your bank and make sure Wal-Mart gets paid as soon as possible.