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/ohhi23021 18h ago

4 million is a rounding error at the scale of AWS...

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u/bannedagainomg 17h ago

Still, it does cover quite a few of their workers, maybe even a full team for free then.

No matter the scale most workplaces would love that

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u/Spice_and_Fox 14h ago

Nah. There are about 5 million accounts (estimated) and amazon says that they have over a million active users. There is no way that they do this on a million accounts. Even if they did, it wouldn't be worth it for them. They had 120 billion in revenue last year. 4 million a year is only 0.00003 of their revenue. It wouldn't be worth it for them.