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TIFU by ignoring potentially fraudulent debit card charges

This happened today and I've learned my lesson! This also probably isn't as serious as some other fuck ups, and the only consequences were to myself. Hopefully I'll be able to laugh about this later, but right now, I'm definitely frustrated. I was updating my budget tracker, looking through my recent purchases, when I noticed one that I was pretty sure I didn't actually make.

I had come across this before, but brushed it off. Turns out that was a mistake. 💀

Today however, my brain finally rang an alarm bell. I had purchased, in May of this year, a plushie Artemis 2 mascot from this website called GetVanoir. They had repeatedly been charging me $29.99 on a monthly basis.

Now, you can probably see where this is going.

I did some investigating today, as my friend had also purchased one, and asked her to see if she'd recently come across any charges. She said she had and that they'd been charging her for a membership. She'd had to cancel it via their website, which (thank God) is not hard.

Apparently, GetVanoir signs you up involuntarily for a membership if you make a purchase, which they only mention at the very bottom of the order confirmation in tiny, tiny fine print. I only discovered this today after looking up the order confirmation to check if there was anything about this membership I'd involuntarily signed up for. There was, and it's a very CYA if anyone tries to sue them.

I sent Support a very strongly worded email, which I knew would be useless as they would not give me money back. As we're all aware, it's now October. I made the purchase in May. If you're doing some quick math, they took $210 dollars from me. For some people, this might not be a big deal, and I work full-time, so I'm lucky, but I don't make ✨that✨ much money. That $210 dollars could've gone to gas or groceries- instead it went to this asshole company that takes your money by signing you up for a membership after you make a purchase.

Disclaimer- I know that I'm lucky that I caught it this early, and that there are worse scams out there. But mostly I wanted to share this to warn others to be wary about random online purchasing websites. They're getting smarter, and it's low-key scary.

Anyways, beware of any purchases you make from any not the usual sites that you buy from. They just might secretly sign you up for a membership and steal your money from you. 🤩

TL;DR I made a purchase that came with a semi-concealed membership I didn't want, which ended up costing me $210.

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