Check your payment preferences before adding funds
Word to the wise! Amazon will charge other payment forms without your explicit consent or even notification of your original payment fails. TURN OFF THAT SETTING IF YOU WANT TO AVOID A HEADACHE. (Account, payment preferences, scroll all the way to the bottom and click “backup payment preferences,” toggle option off). We didn’t realize Amazon  charged other cards instead of loading those visa gift cards to the balance.<br /><br />Here’s the quick and dirty:<br />-I had one of those visa gift cards from a rebate.<br />-I had a purchase I washed to make on Amazon.<br />-The purchase was for more than my visa gift card.<br />-Amazon doesn’t allow you to specify multiple forms of payment at checkout.<br />-I “loaded” my visa gift card to my amazon balance.<br />-I received an e-mail three days later showing my $50 was added.<br />-I made my purchase.<br />-Weeks later, I noticed a $50 charge on a different credit card. I called, was told to dispute the charge with my credit card company. It was ultimately denied. So, that visa rebate gift card was never loaded to the account.<br />-Some time later, we learned that there’s a place where you can turn off a setting, one that I was never told about, that will charge another card of your first payment method doesn’t process.
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