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Nope, it's not Wallet doing the blocking (at least not in my case): it was the banks which had issued the credit cards in question. I've had it happen before,
by pja 14y ago
Nope, it's not Wallet doing the blocking (at least not in my case): it was the banks which had issued the credit cards in question.
I've had it happen before, but that was when I'd bought a small pile of cheap Android Apps & then gone to buy something expensive elsewhere (not via Google Wallet) and those transactions triggered the fraud checks, not entirely unreasonably even if it was a little annoying at the time.
Having my cards blocked because Google is issuing fake test transactions for no good reason whatsoever that I can see is somewhat more annoying however!
- alvarosm 14y agoIn the cases I was talking about, it was Google. They don't even attempt to charge the cards until a certain period of time (1 hour or so? more than the 15-minute refund period anyway) has passed, so the cancellations happen before any attempt to charge the card, so it's Google, not the banks.
- pja 14y agoSure: just to clarify, I was only talking about my specific transaction there. Clearly, Google can and will manage to make a craptacular mess of handling payments for other people in whatever ingenious ways they can come up with!