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Then, uh, $1000 should probably be the "maximum placeholder" too, jackasses.
I disagree. The placeholder should be 0 (or even better, a negative number if the system allows it).
Otherwise you'll have people who will end up paying the $1000, believing it to be what they owe.
In a strange way, having it be ridiculously high was a benefit since it got this person to complain. If it was something high but still within in the range of plausibility, he might have overpaid. That being said, it being ridiculously high could also (as the article suggests) be used nefariously to scare people into showing up in court.
It should probably just say "TBD - Court". But it wouldn't surprise me if their system just cannot handle putting letters in a field that typically uses numbers.
It should just have an empty value, nothing. Not zero, nothing. And in that case they should display something like "TBD - Court" although I bet whatever system they have, it would probably be a pain to do that in.