Aprilhb
Huntington Beach,#2Consumer Comment
Sun, December 07, 2008
After I closed out that debit card, I watched to see what would happen with that $40.00 "pending" amount and found that they wound up taking $1.00 (plus the bank charged a "foreign transaction fee" of 3%). Obviously, they assume that the small amounts will be ignored by customers. I know it's just a dollar - it's just that it's MY dollar! I'll fight it, just to prove a point to them. I just thought I'd update you about my experience and where I'm at now with these people. I can't figure out why the bank wouldn't be suspect of a company that is consistantly posting "pending" amounts and reversing them until they finally do go through with a withdrawal of yet another amount. In theory, they could just keep confusing the consumer with "pending" debits until finally they don't even see the actual posted transaction because it's so buried within a long line of "pending" transactions. Very disgusting tactics.
Aprilhb
Huntington Beach,#3Consumer Comment
Fri, December 05, 2008
I've been wondering who these clowns were! I've watched as "pending" transactions have appeared on my bank transaction history online for the past couple of weeks. The scam seems to be that they start out with "pending" amounts ranging from $1.00 to $45.00 - BUT, those transactions never went through. Now I have a new "pending" amount in the $40.00 range and we shall see if they go ahead and push that one through or withdraw it. I've got to say, this is not the first time Netrx has been behind a scam like this and I wonder how they stay in business when they evidently sell their customer's credit card information so frequently! I'm just glad you posted this or I would have never known what exactly was going on with all these "pending"/disappearing transactions. I'd initially assumed it was something like Netflix or another subscription service that was making sure my card was still good and withdrawing the "pending" amounts. Now that I know better, I'll be watching closely to see what happens to this latest one! Obviously I canceled my credit card so it won't happen again. But, I wouldn't have known to do that without your helpful post! Thank you so much for the heads-up! I guess they're assuming that this close to Christmas, people won't realize what is what on their statements and may well dismiss such things as a forgotten purchase! That's when I got hit last time from these guys - a week before Christmas last year from some random "pharmacy" in Utah. I fought it and won, of course, but great to see the new scam, new name these jerks have going on this holiday season! Thank you again!!