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Roughly the same thing happened to me on a much much bigger scale. I was making an estimated income tax prepayment (as required by law) on the ridiculous IRS di
by todd8 4y ago
Roughly the same thing happened to me on a much much bigger scale. I was making an estimated income tax prepayment (as required by law) on the ridiculous IRS direct pay site. There was no way to undo my error that I could find on the IRS websites. I foolishly thought that when the IRS web page said something like “system problem try again later” meant that I should try again later.
I feel like the agencies should just let Visa or Mastercard handle billing and collection.
- misiti3780 4y agoyou get that money back in 2-3 weeks though.
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- adrianmonk 4y agoIn the early days of the web, I did this with college textbooks. It was the very first semester that textbook web sites were open for business. IIRC, they advertised heavily. A zillion college students got on the site all at once to save money and try out this new e-commerce concept, and the site collapsed under the load. I went through the process 3 times and got an error each time. Eventually I gave up and decided I'd have to buy books in person the old-fashioned way. I'm pretty sure I got at least 2 sets of books delivered to me. I had to arrange for a return, and customer service wasn't happy about it. These days, it's pretty obvious that an error on a web page doesn't conclusively mean a purchase didn't go through, but back then I don't think either they or I clearly understood that.