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Your credit card company is the entity you can expect to apply basic logic. In the short term, that logic will be to refund your money to keep your annual spen
by Syzygies 4y ago
Your credit card company is the entity you can expect to apply basic logic.
In the short term, that logic will be to refund your money to keep your annual spend, but not to bother Uber. In the long term, this could raise the fees Uber pays for credit card services.
Long before Uber, a JAX airport auto rental was improperly tacking an $8 fee onto every "paid in full" Hotwire reservation. This can add up over a year. When challenged, they lied and claimed it was an upgrade. American Express of course made no effort to protest this, they just refunded my $8. Not very satisfying, but still my best course of action.
- Shaanie 4y agoA credit card chargeback should be used as the last resort, and for good reason: many service providers will permanently suspend your account if you do one. There's typically a thread or two per year where some poor sap gets double charged by Google or similar company, uses a chargeback and then gets their entire account suspended. Poof, all your mails are now permanently gone. So yeah, only do it if you're OK with never using Uber again.