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So, you can get away with blowing >$100k on adwords and nobody bats an eye (he was auto-billed), but on AWS I can't spin up more than a few elastic IPs or EBS v
by reustle 10y ago
So, you can get away with blowing >$100k on adwords and nobody bats an eye (he was auto-billed), but on AWS I can't spin up more than a few elastic IPs or EBS volumes without going through verification hoops :)
- proofmaster 10y agoI heard that you can owe money to Facebook as well. Recently a story broke out that a page got removed because they didn't pay 20k euros for advertisement. I had a paid ad once and got billed 2 months later...
- jorgemf 10y agoYes, but you have to be a teenager with very crappy videos about your music group. Probably with better quality videos or being over 18 wouldn't have the same consequences from Google.
- dorfsmay 10y agoAgreed, if anything, this story is interesting because it shows that Google will let brand new customers go from 0 to 100 k$ without any checking! I really thought I had to add a credit card before I could use adwords,and that they charge at the end of the first month. I feel like there's something missing from this story.
- ParanoidShroom 10y agoNo the story, is bullshit. You will get charged the first 250$, after that it will be increased to 500$. And only upped once the payment is complete. This continues for a few more steps. So you can't spend 100K on a new account. This entire story just sounds like pure BS. Google has a LOT of stuff against fraud, especially on it ads business. As it's the core ...
- beejiu 10y agoHe was being billed from his savings account. It was only when the threshold increased (which Google increases after some time) that the bank raised the warning. (Source: The Register)
- dorfsmay 10y agoOk, this explains it. Thanks! Big surprise, a site named "freshasfuck" is not a really good source for news!
- MichaelBurge 10y agoAmazon are supposedly good about refunding accidents too.