On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:55:19 -0700, Scott in SoCal
<scottenaztlan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>I dug through amazon's web site and found the well-hidden "call me"
>page. A rep came on the line and told me that both attempts at
>charging my credit card were denied. I explained what the ****ybank
>rep had told me, but the amazon rep was unmoved. To her I was
>undoubtedly just another lying s***bag customer trying to defraud
>amazon out of $116. So I told her to make one final attempt to run the
>charge through and, if it failed again I was going to cancel the
>order. To everyone's suprise, IT WORKED!! The charge went right
>through and was approved!! Yet the amazon.com web site STILL shows
>the order status as "your payment revision required." Clearly
>amazon.com is having some sort of a problem with their online ordering
>system. Will they own up to it? Stay tuned as the saga continues...
Scott, it sounds like the first charge was really a hold that later
expired. I have dealt with bank phone-a-friends (not) that didn't
seem to know the difference between a hold and an actual charge.
Perhaps Amazon places a hold when you are online, then follows it up
with a batch job that executes the charges when the item ****ps.
Since they thought the hold was rejected they failed to apply the
actual charge. When it expired, their third attempt worked.
Do keep us posted with your attempts to resolve dueling computers.
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