1 dollar registeration fee?
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ken Meads
Registered User
Join date: 30 Sep 2007
Posts: 10
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10-02-2007 02:06
i provided cc payment information on my sl account, then i found i paid 1 dollar unknown fee. Does anybody here can tell me what happens?
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Sensual Casanova
Spoiled Brat
Join date: 28 Feb 2004
Posts: 4,807
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10-02-2007 02:07
I'm not sure but alot of companies will charge $1 as verification of a valid credit card and within a few minutes it's usually reimbursed, could that be it?
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ken Meads
Registered User
Join date: 30 Sep 2007
Posts: 10
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10-02-2007 02:12
Does lindenlab commissioned third-party company charge this fee as verification? From: Sensual Casanova I'm not sure but alot of companies will charge $1 as verification of a valid credit card and within a few minutes it's usually reimbursed, could that be it? |
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Wulfric Chevalier
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Join date: 22 Dec 2006
Posts: 947
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10-02-2007 02:19
I understand they send a request for $1 to verify its a real credit card. Can cause problems - my CC company got very suspicious of the $1 requests and suspended the card to protect me from fraud.
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Sensual Casanova
Spoiled Brat
Join date: 28 Feb 2004
Posts: 4,807
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10-02-2007 03:05
From: ken Meads Does lindenlab commissioned third-party company charge this fee as verification? I am not sure as it has never happen to me from LL but from my understanding their billing department is now in the UK... |
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Ceera Murakami
Texture Artist / Builder
Join date: 9 Sep 2005
Posts: 7,750
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10-02-2007 07:38
They charge you $1 and then refund it, to make sure the source is valid. This unfortunately often gets flagged as a fradulent charge by credit card companies, when a company in the UK makes a charge against someone who resids in a different country, like America or France...
I have had calls come in from my creidt acrd company, asking me to verify that I did indeed authorize a $1 purchase for "Computers and Computer Store" with a company in the UK. (I'm in America.) Turned out it was LL's UK office doing a crappy job of validating the payment info. I verified that thetime did match when I was creating payment info on my alt, and they cleared the flag on my card's account and allowed the transaction.
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Stephen Zenith
Registered User
Join date: 15 May 2006
Posts: 1,029
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10-02-2007 07:52
From: Ceera Murakami They charge you $1 and then refund it, to make sure the source is valid. This unfortunately often gets flagged as a fradulent charge by credit card companies, when a company in the UK makes a charge against someone who resids in a different country, like America or France...
I have had calls come in from my creidt acrd company, asking me to verify that I did indeed authorize a $1 purchase for "Computers and Computer Store" with a company in the UK. (I'm in America.) Turned out it was LL's UK office doing a crappy job of validating the payment info. I verified that thetime did match when I was creating payment info on my alt, and they cleared the flag on my card's account and allowed the transaction. For a while, every single charge to my credit card got queried (but not stopped) by my credit card company. It turns out, it happened because they were getting mixed up between LINDENLAB and SECONDLIFE appearing in different places in the transaction. Once I made it clear to them they were the same thing, it was fine. |
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Ava Glasgow
Hippie surfer chick
Join date: 27 Jan 2007
Posts: 2,172
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10-02-2007 11:16
In my case, anytime I re-enter my CC details, LL sends a $1 authorization request. This is NOT the same as an actual charge. It is not something that you have to actually pay. Usually it just expires after a few weeks, and disappears from your account. It CAN affect how much you can spend before hitting your limit, but if you are within $1 of your limit, you probably shouldn't be using that card!  |
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Brenda Connolly
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Join date: 10 Jan 2007
Posts: 25,000
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10-02-2007 11:18
Maybe it's the heretofore unknown Super Extra Value Added Tax.......
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Ava Glasgow
Hippie surfer chick
Join date: 27 Jan 2007
Posts: 2,172
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10-02-2007 12:44
From: Brenda Connolly Maybe it's the heretofore unknown Super Extra Value Added Tax....... Would you like fries with that? |
