Jecca Mehlota (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jecca_mehlota) wrote2010-04-10 08:16 pm
jecca_mehlota) wrote2010-04-10 08:16 pm
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Holy -- !
Fun complaint from the FFXI playerbase that was going around for a while (maybe it still happens, but I don't see any of it, anymore) was that SquareEnix had mucked things up somehow and you were double-billed for your account. What a pain! So you call them to get it corrected and they refund the charges and next month rolls around and suddenly you find yourself banned for trying to skip payment. So you have to call SquareEnix again. That second part doesn't always happen, but it did seem to a few times. Hasn't happened to me (yet?).
Saw a thread yesterday, "You thought FFXI's double bills were bad?" and I was intrigued! So I clicked. It was another link! Apparently Warhammer Online had some kind of epic glitch and billed massive amounts of its players - regardless of whether or not they were due for billing - tens of times. People were charged in the thousands. And then hit with overdraft fees!
That is terrifying. I mean, yeah, of course you want to have more than the absolute minimum needed in your bank account if possible - even I always have enough to pay my bills and for any extra stuff that comes up. Food, or whatever. And I always make sure I have cash. And I have a credit card for emergencies. But I do not have thousands in my bank account! (People paying with credit cards got off a bit better since, of course, you do not pay that immediately and all.)
Players are being told to contact their banks to get it reversed (which, hey, whatever. You need to own your own mistakes, though, guys), banks aren't all wanting to remove the overdraft fee...
Obviously they're working to fix this, but wow. If something like that ever happened to me, that'd be it. I would be done. Account'd be canceled immediately. (Though, uh, apparently some people were billed despite having terminated their account months earlier.)
Additionally, this apparently isn't the first time this has happened! Though it's on a much larger scale this time. Geez...
Jumping to Transformers, this thread (CAN DEVVY EAT IT?!) entertains me more than it has any reasonable right to.
Saw a thread yesterday, "You thought FFXI's double bills were bad?" and I was intrigued! So I clicked. It was another link! Apparently Warhammer Online had some kind of epic glitch and billed massive amounts of its players - regardless of whether or not they were due for billing - tens of times. People were charged in the thousands. And then hit with overdraft fees!
That is terrifying. I mean, yeah, of course you want to have more than the absolute minimum needed in your bank account if possible - even I always have enough to pay my bills and for any extra stuff that comes up. Food, or whatever. And I always make sure I have cash. And I have a credit card for emergencies. But I do not have thousands in my bank account! (People paying with credit cards got off a bit better since, of course, you do not pay that immediately and all.)
Players are being told to contact their banks to get it reversed (which, hey, whatever. You need to own your own mistakes, though, guys), banks aren't all wanting to remove the overdraft fee...
Obviously they're working to fix this, but wow. If something like that ever happened to me, that'd be it. I would be done. Account'd be canceled immediately. (Though, uh, apparently some people were billed despite having terminated their account months earlier.)
Additionally, this apparently isn't the first time this has happened! Though it's on a much larger scale this time. Geez...
Jumping to Transformers, this thread (CAN DEVVY EAT IT?!) entertains me more than it has any reasonable right to.