Possible Chargeback Coming
Financial Management

Possible Chargeback Coming

So you may have remembered a little over a month ago where I gave this hosting company a cancellation notice where it wasn’t until mid this month that the service was set to be renewed. Since I had no use for this particular vendor anymore, I decided to cancel it and gave them a lot of notice.

I also read all the horror stories and sure enough I received an automatic e-mail the other day saying that they have successfully billed my credit card. Funny thing is my cancellation support request ticket has been sitting unanswered since that time and I even replied to their billing e-mail about this.

Because of those horror stories I did indeed document everything too. I did take a peak at my statement online and the charge has not been posted as of yet and so I can’t initiate anything. The annoying thing about these is that you still have to pay the credit card bill and then wait for a possible month or so until you get reimbursed (Assuming everything is successful).

My credit card actually has an online form for it too which I haven’t really tried before. The last time I had to do something like this was almost 8 years ago using the traditional phone method. Will be an interesting saga unless that company fixes everything beforehand.

2 Comments

  • Wojciech K 7/16/2009

    With the last charge back experience I went through, the CC didn’t make me pay a dime until they had resolved everything – they simply took the transaction off the bill.

    Maybe they have changed their practices, but it would seem like the most customer-service-friendly approach to not make you pay.

  • Alan Yu 7/16/2009

    I’m hoping it will be that easy. However, I never tried the online methods for the dispute and I just heard of stories how it takes them awhile to actually credit you. Therefore, I don’t want to risk having to pay any interest on the existing balances incase the credit doesn’t come through on time.

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