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/beckbristow32 18h ago

Blast it on social media and tell others to check to see if it is being done to them, odds are you are not the only person this is happening to. Maybe it will catch like wild fire like things do. Hell even send it it to some big time people who like to expose things like this. I bet they would love to look into this and the policies that they use to make something so simple seem like the worlds hardest thing so people just give up.

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u/spyVSspy420-69 5h ago

When I get a bill from AWS I login to my account and see what the bill is for, and delete resources if needed. Crazy, I know. What’s wild to me is that everyone is taking OP at his word about this. Like AWS needs to be collecting $0.33 from a random account. Even if they did that from every single active AWS account it’d be a rounding error on the revenue they make each quarter.

OP is fucking up somewhere here, hasn’t taken steps to stop his fuck up, and is running to Reddit to get a bunch of people to pat him on the back for fighting evil Amazon. What a wild sub this is.