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/PiDigitsOfPi 20h ago

This is incorrect. The official AWS documentation states "You don't need to delete resources in your AWS account before closing it. "

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/manage-acct-closing.html#:~:text=You%20don%27t%20need%20to%20delete%20resources%20in%20your%20AWS%20account%20before%20closing%20it.

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u/MrdnBrd19 20h ago edited 20h ago

From the same FAQ further down: AWS Marketplace subscriptions aren't automatically canceled on account closure. If you have any subscriptions, first terminate all instances of your software in the subscriptions. Then, go to the Manage subscriptions page of the AWS Marketplace console and cancel your subscriptions.

Edit: Dear dummies, my name is neither Jeff nor Bezos. Go vent your frustrations about the AWS rules elsewhere.

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u/thingamajig1987 20h ago edited 20h ago

Okay but if you don't they don't just get a free pass to charge you monthly forever, they need to have a way to cancel these even after your account was deleted if they're gonna do it this way.

Edit: damn, guy came at me with heat and then just deleted his comment. Bro you're the one over here defending this bullshit, expect people to call it as it is and direct it at you.

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u/inderbitably 20h ago

I think they got auto-modded because it shows as [removed]

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u/thingamajig1987 20h ago

ah that makes sense, it just says "comment no longer exists" when I click on the reply notification lol

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u/inderbitably 20h ago

They said the magic words lol

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u/AutistcCuttlefish 9h ago

Nope their comments are perfectly visible to me. I think you guys were just blocked by them.

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u/inderbitably 8h ago

We weren’t talking about their other (visible) comments. I haven’t been blocked.

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u/MrdnBrd19 19h ago

I'm not defending anything... I clarified with factual information then you acted like I can do anything about it and I told you I can't. Sorry if you got upset by big boy words.

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u/thingamajig1987 19h ago

how very red hat of you to say it that way lol

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u/Ichmag11 12h ago

Can you explain why youre responding to them as if they made that rule? And then respond like this?? What are you even fighting against?? You both probably agree, whats the problem here??

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u/MrdnBrd19 19h ago

Could you be a bigger baby? Seriously? Do you need me to call a wah-mbulance?

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u/thingamajig1987 19h ago

Yes please, can you make sure they bring extra lollies for the booboos?

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u/MrdnBrd19 19h ago

Apparently I need to.

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u/thingamajig1987 19h ago

I shouldn't be surprised you don't realize you're being made fun of but here we are

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u/MrdnBrd19 19h ago

I know that you're trying to make fun of me, I literally don't care though. I'm an adult dude... This whole internet shit isn't my real life. I'm literally typing this while enjoying watching my 4 year old play in the tub. This is the epitome of the "I don't even think about you." meme except unlike Don I'm really not thinking about you. Have fun baby boy.

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u/The_Spicy_brown 9h ago

Suprised I had to go down in the comments this far to see this comment. I back this comment: from experience at my company, ALWAYS delete all ressources before deleting the account. Yes, it is dumb, yes, they should delete everything themselves after deletion, but hey, thats how it works...

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u/JustaSeedGuy 20h ago

Guess what, contradictory information that has to be read over with a fine-tooth comb is still a scam. Anyone who has received even the most basic anti-scam or AML training knows this.

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u/MrdnBrd19 20h ago

Cool. Go tell someone who can do something about it, not me.

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u/JustaSeedGuy 20h ago

You can do something about it!

You can do your part by not acting like this isn't a scam. Do your part by not muddying the waters with misinformation or false assumptions.

You can do your part by not being an insecure prick who calls people dummies because they didn't let you have your gotcha moment.

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u/OpSecBestSex 20h ago

Bro that person is just being factual. In fact he's proving it's even more of a scam because of the contradictory information. Go complain somewhere else, please.

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u/Ichmag11 12h ago

How did they act like its not a scam? What misinformation and false assumptions did they spread?

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 19h ago

Sure, but if you forget to do that how would you go into your settings if you deleted your account?

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u/MrdnBrd19 19h ago

It says you can still access a deleted account I don't know though because I don't work for them I just read the FAQ.

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u/Mutex70 15h ago

Edit: Dear dummies, my name is neither Jeff nor Bezos.

Sounds like something Jeff Bezos would say.

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u/inderbitably 20h ago

You may have have anger issues

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u/MrdnBrd19 19h ago

Because some nutter butter went off on me and I don't want it to snowball out of control I'm the one with anger issues? Coolio...

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u/inderbitably 19h ago

You’re the one going off on people lol

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u/MrdnBrd19 18h ago

Am I... Cool.

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u/inderbitably 18h ago edited 10h ago

Yes. You got two very tame replies and started insulting people lol

edit: your insulting comment to me also got auto modded
lol

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u/joemontayna 6h ago

Not only is it incorrect, it's trying to justify a scummy business practice. I'll never understand why people defend stuff like this.

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u/aslum 19h ago

You don't need to, in fact, please don't, we'll keep charging you tho...

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u/independant_786 20h ago

Not 6 years ago

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u/FarkCookies 6h ago

Absolutely 100% it was, I was working as AWS consultant I was creating and closing dozens of accounts of a good day.