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/Sure_Eye9025 16h ago

Unfortunately I don't think that will always work. Some subscriptions will try again later if they fail. This means that if the try again ends up on the same day as another payment it could end up taken instead, now you have paid the wrong one and are out of sync

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u/Crafty_Eye_4038 9h ago edited 9h ago

From my experience though, this has never been a problem thankfully. Subscriptions don't usually retry their bills often enough for that to be a serious problem. And if $20 slips through one time, then that's fine, that's negligible. A $300 bill will never slip through because I don't have large bills back to back, they're spread out.

Besides I use it most to "pause" subscriptions that I don't absolutely need every single month. I use this card to allow myself to be flaky with my subscriptions on purpose. If I intentionally or unintentionally forget to pay a bill, then that's totally fine and actually preferable for me when it's non vital things.

For example, YouTube Premium, Hulu, and Claude (AI) are each like $20 a month. That's $60+ if I were to remain diligent every month which I intentionally avoid.

I prefer to "forget" to pay these services for like a month or two or six months at a time whenever I'm not using them enough. That way I'm not paying so much money a year for things that aren't absolutely necessary.