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Originally Posted by queentess
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Again, Reading Comprehension. Amazon doesn't charge me $0.01 for a free book. B&N apparently does (or can; I'm unsure if this was an error or their standard policy).
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If you check the invoices at B&N, they charge a penny for all free books, but _usually_ discount that a further penny, so that no charge hits your credit card (but a pending authorization for a penny does go thru, which can, again, trigger fraud detection, as well as tie up pennies at a time if you use a debit card).
The problem is, that penny discount they are supposed to use? It doesn't always work, so you get periodic episodes of being charged a penny.
They also will charge you if the book went up in price, even if it shows free on the search page or the product description page (in other words, without any notice) and don't ask you to confirm the charge if it had a "free" buy button (they do confirm, if a price was shown). When they first put books up as free, this seems to sometimes trigger charges by those who buy early and just as the books cease to be free, it happens again -- such as with the B&N classics that were free thru a specific day, then went up in price; they still showed up as free on their promotion page, with "buy now" buttons that didn't ask you about the charge -- but the people who bought late all got charged (yes, I know, they should not have waited, but I'd presume some of them had just found out about it and thought that if it still was showing as free, it should work ... silly them).