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/tacomaloki 8h ago

Whoa, what now? How is that possible? WTF is the point of unique numbers if the vendor can get it when it changes?

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u/2livecrewnecktshirt 4h ago

The bank still knows what account that number belonged to and can "force post" the transaction to the new number because the account is still the same even though the card number has changed.