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Just tangentially related but recently I tried to buy something from an online store called Adorama and when I tried to place an order I got the notification of
by mattigames 6y ago
Just tangentially related but recently I tried to buy something from an online store called Adorama and when I tried to place an order I got the notification of the charge from my bank after clicking the order button but the page didn't do anything, initially I though "well lets just get in touch with customer support, pretty sure they can see the charge and let me know what happen with it" oh boy was I wrong, their customer support only has access to orders not transactions, so when a bug in their website charged me without creating an order there is nothing they can do at all; all they did is recommend me to ask my bank to do a chargeback, but my bank says I need to wait 30 days after the transaction to so. So yeah, my lesson was the same, I should have had stick with Amazon because smaller stores just can't be trusted with handling purchases correctly.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoPrivacy.com... is my thing for this reason.
- therockspush 6y agoas soon as you can use a credit card to fund it, perfection.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agothat will probably not happen because they would be eating a credit card fee... that service only works because they become the credit card processor and get to pocket the card fee...
- staticautomatic 6y agoAdorama is totally reputable and everyone is smaller than Amazon. Still super annoying to encounter things like that though.
- ponker 6y agoAdorama is a huge company. Must be a top 1000 e-commerce vendor.
- bmarquez 6y agoAdorama is legit, along with B&H they're one of the big names in cameras and photography equipment. I've purchased from Adorama in the past without issues and you can call their salespeople for advice, which is unlikely with Amazon.
- walrus01 6y agoOnline camera stores and places that sell $2500+ small, valuable, easily resold electronics are one of the #1 targets for credit card/identity fraud. It's likely that whatever you ran into is an unintended side effect of either Adorama's anti-fraud system, the anti-fraud system of their payment processor or your bank. Adorama is a legit store, they've been around for 25+ years.