> Your rhetorical questions don't match OPs story. According to OP they did pay, manually, not even by credit card. That's fair enough - somehow I completely m

> Your rhetorical questions don't match OPs story. According to OP they did pay, manually, not even by credit card. That's fair enough - somehow I completely misread/understood that part of the post. But my main point was that you should never be using credit cards for services that you rely on - particularly when billing/payment is automated and hidden from you. Credit card payments and checks fail regularly (10%+ for recurring payment charges) for legitimate (you don't have funds) and less legitimate reasons (a banks AI system thinking the charge looks fraudulent due to something outside of your account etc). Vendors are likely to stop the service as soon as they can get away with so they don't loose money.