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Originally Posted by boswd
Are you sure they bill you and just not run the card?
this is from their website:
All first-time subscribers receive a FREE 14-day trial. If you cancel your subscription before the end of the 14 days, you will not be charged. If you do not cancel the subscription, deliveries will continue and your default credit card will be charged automatically at the monthly subscription rate. Your subscription will automatically renew each month unless you choose to cancel. You are only eligible for one free trial for each eNewspaper and eMagazine.
They may initially run the card but that doesn't mean they charge it. What happens is the amount goes into "pending" depending on the Bank or Credit Card company a store such as BN has a certain amount of days to send in the approval to change it from a "pending' or some call it a "hold". If it's not sent in then the hold or pending goes away and nothing is charged.
this very very common. Say for example you go out with your friends to a bar and start a tab. The bartender will ask you for a credit card and will run it throughout your time spent at the place. At the end you pay with cash. But if you check your account you will have "hold" of the amount of time at the bar. Then in about 3 days (that's my banks time limit) the charge/hold is gone.
I think that is what happens
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You are absolutely correct. It's just when you say free trial subscription I'm not anticipated any type of hold. $1 is acceptable if you want to verify that it's a valid card. Amazon doesn't do any type of credit card authorization.