Consumer complaint received 2024-10-08 00:00:00
Product: Money transfer, virtual currency, or money service — Mobile or digital wallet
Issue: Unauthorized transactions or other transaction problem — 
Company: Block, Inc.
State: FL

Complaint narrative:
On XX/XX/2024 a charge from XXXX in the amount of {$99.00} was pending. XXXX was contacted and due to the software not being utilized since XX/XX/2024 the transaction was reversed on their end, as told by several representatives of the company. The charge remained pending until it posted. After waiting 10 business days, communication was sent to the merchant with a response stating that there would be no refund as the transaction was voided on their end and the charge should have reversed, resulting in the funds being returned to my available balance. Being that the merchant stated this information and the charge still reflecting as posted, a dispute was issued with Block Inc/Square Inc/Cashapp , hereby addressed as 'financial institution '. The dispute included the communication from the merchant stating the transaction was voided on their end. The dispute was denied and the supporting documentary evidence was disregarded. Further communication with the merchant referred to my financial institution for any further assistance due to the fact that the transaction was voided and nothing further on their end could be done. Several communication attempts with the financial institution resulted in the refiling of the dispute a total of 5 times along with 5 denials of said dispute, regardless of the communication directly from the merchant stating the transaction was voided and services were not rendered. Upon request of the information used to determine the decision, a timestamp of the posted transaction was provided with no additional supporting evidence relied upon to reach the conclusion of no error occurring. 

The dealing of this issue has caused a great deal of stress, migraines, loss of sleep, mental anguish and XXXX  XXXX. Not including the time spent on various phone calls to attempt to have a proper investigation completed. All of this has been very stressful and without a proper investigation to be conducted, concluding that the funds for services not rendered by the merchant is deceptive, unfair, and unethical as per 15 USC 1693 ( f ) ( e ) ( 1 ) and 15 USC 1693 ( f ) ( e ) ( 2 ) as refusal to make a good faith investigation of the alleged error, nor did the financial institution provisionally credit the consumer 's account, nor was there reasonable basis for believing that the consumer 's account was not in error. The financial institution also knowingly and willingly concluded that the consumer 's account was not in error when such conclusion could not reasonably have been drawn from the evidence available at the time of investigation. Upon request of all information used during the course of the investigation, the financial institution failed to provide all documents relied upon to conclude such error did not occur, as per 15 USC 1693f ( d ). I have attached the communications from both the merchant and the financial institution as supporting documentary evidence.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation