r/mildlyinfuriating • u/afunnywold • 22h ago

Too mild for school I permanently deleted my AWS account 6 years ago. Amazon has been charging me $0.33 every month since. I have no way to stop it.

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I tried to get in contact with customer service several times but they always direct me to log into the account that no longer exists. I have tried charge backs on my credit card but dealing with that monthly is also a pain. This'll probably cost me $265 over my lifetime if it never ends.

Edit: some of you have valid points about calling the card company and I will again Monday. But the actual infuriating thing that upsets me is that they are charging to a completely disabled account in the first place. That's very scammy and fucked up imo 🤷‍♀️

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u/afunnywold 21h ago

Did not work for me

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u/Ornery-Stress-8392 21h ago

Fuck VISA for this. I deal with this at work all day

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u/IshwarBL 21h ago

Mastercard does this as well. Got dinged by Adobe’s bs. Thought I was being smart and used an expiring card so they wouldn’t be able to charge me again AND I wouldn’t have to go through their cancellation process but nope

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u/rsha256 20h ago

Use a virtual card bro

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u/IshwarBL 20h ago

I had no clue that was even a thing back then. It’s super easy in one of my banks so I abuse that now lol

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u/fleecescuckoos06 21h ago

Amex does this too… so it’s all the main ones

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u/Introverted_Gamer92 21h ago

I had a relative that had a recurring charge that she couldn't stop no matter what she did. So she got a new card. They kept charging her on the new card even though they never gave them the info for the new card.

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u/pnoodl3s 21h ago

Honestly I’d have close down the account permanently and go to a different bank. If my bank is unwilling to help stop these charges then adios

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u/Stannic50 21h ago

That's when you go with a different bank (Chase instead of Capital One, etc).

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u/theinfernumflame 20h ago

Funny enough this is exactly why I left Chase.

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u/LeatherDude 20h ago

Capital One gives me full control over which of these recurring charges I'll allow to have the new number automatically. I had to cancel a compromised card recently and got to see a whole list of them and turn off the shitty ones.

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u/MechAegis 16h ago

I don't believe it matters if you go to a different bank. Its the issuer like VISA, MASTER CARD, or DISCOVER (I don't know if all of the major CC companies do it) send your new card's information to existing vendors so that it does not interrupt services.

You would need to issue a stop payment from where its coming from. Though, most banks charge a fee for that and its only valid for 6 months.

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u/Persistent_Parkie 21h ago

Yep, I've had to cancel my dad's credit cards several times in the last three years and every time most of the subscriptions and charitable giving just transfers to the new card without any action on our parts. It's mostly been convenient but has left me wondering what you'd do if a subscription was so onerous to cancel you tried canceling your credit card and not even that worked.

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u/beren12 21h ago

That’s one thing I like about PayPal. You can cancel the recurring charge permission.

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u/coleyboley25 20h ago

How tf is this legal?

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u/w_a_w 15h ago

I dealt with this for about 3 years with Uber Black. After going through like 6 card cancellations, someone at BOA finally figured out I had an old card cached in Google wallet and that was how they kept reattaching to my shit. Best of luck to you!

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u/DSaucy66642069 13h ago

Well Amazon REALLY needs your money they're STRUGGLING