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Originally Posted by boswd
so what does have anything to do with the guys bank freezing his card? How is that Barnes and Noble's fault?
Also Amazon also does single purchase, if you bought 61 one cent purchases on Amazon why wouldn't your bank freeze your card then? I'm assuming your bank doesn't play favorites right?
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Because a high number of penny charges (which, btw, should never have been sent thru on free books) will trigger most fraud detection systems. Which puts this squarely in B&N's court in my case, if not his (since, I'll assume, his were higher charges).
And now, Amazon doesn't trigger it (then again, it's an Amazon card that I use, which seems to know that Amazon is an ok vendor, no matter how many stupid, tiny charges I put on it ... including those at a penny).
Why these vendors can't just run an invoice and trigger it when it either gets too old or too high (like Sony and iTunes do and like Amazon does for their other digital purchases, such as music), I don't understand. Amazon already has the infrastructure for it.
Kobo and B&N have both caused problems that I've had to clear with a phone call. Kobo just because it's non-US (had to switch to a different bank card with them, just to get charges to work at all and even then it triggered once due to several small charges in a day), while B&N keeps getting their free book purchases screwed up and charges either full price or a penny; hit several pennies in a row and the card gets locked.