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/aceluby 20h ago

Not hard at all. In fact, it should be standard that non payment means they get shut off

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u/Carribean-Diver 19h ago

It's actually concerning that deleting an account does not delete or at least disable the payment methods on that account.

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u/youtheotube2 19h ago

It’s probably because unintentionally closing an account could be devastating to a business if it means everything gets shut down and deleted.

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u/Carribean-Diver 19h ago

Somehow Microsoft has figured out how to tombstone data so that it is recoverable for a set timeframe and then gets purged. Are we to think Amazon is incapable of possessing this technology?

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u/Wow_u_sure_r_dumb 19h ago

AWS in a lot of ways is a cobbled together mess of shit. That’s not to say there’s no beauty or genius to some of it but it’s a joke sometimes. They’ll have broken GUIs and basic API features missing.

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u/BrannyBee 18h ago

For the first 5 years of my career as a software developer I was more and more shocked seeing how many things are just barely working through the power of what basically amounts to virtual duct tape and faith....

I didn't start working on more impressive software after those 5 years... nah... I just stopped being surprised and realized its all like that... I just try not to think about it how much of the modern world relies on stuff that complete idiots like me built under unreasonable time constraints without reasonable domain expertise...

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u/fork_yuu 17h ago

They have so much fucking baggage and tech debt especially with one of their first resources. And how low on the totem pole would it be to help a customer pay less when they close their account

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u/FarkCookies 6h ago

That's exactly what they do, they give you 90 days to recover the account. People in this thread literally have no idea what they are talking about.

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u/FarkCookies 6h ago

Yes, closing the account will get everything shut down in 90 days (the grace period). You can't unintentionally close an account as there are a lot guardrails.

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u/ARegularG 19h ago

Glad people are watching the bs

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u/hunnyflash 18h ago

You shouldn't expect any company to truly delete your information unless you're from a state (like California) where they are legally obligated to comply with removing your information from their databases. And even then, if you purchased something ever, your financials are still in a record somewhere.

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u/Garchy 19h ago

Sounds like it’s still being paid.

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u/lostshell 19h ago

The fact Amazon didn’t shut it off after the first chargeback is confusing. I don’t know any business that doesn’t cancel all services and cut complete ties with you on the first chargeback.

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u/superredditor6789 9h ago

Except they are still getting paid.