How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012)

Re:How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012) by leni536 on Thursday September 24, 2015 @03:03AM (#10270264)

Is it a good idea to use AWS through a prepaid virtual card to avoid such cases? I'm planning to set a up a personal site and I could afford the site going down instead of paying $1000. The guy got refund though, but I would rather not going through this hassle.

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Re:How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012) by abricot on Thursday September 24, 2015 @03:06AM (#10270276)

Well... even tough they wouldn't be able to charge the money to your card, you would still owe them.

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Re:How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012) by sisl on Thursday September 24, 2015 @05:53AM (#10270731)

Yep.

Even if Amazon would claim the money you owe in realtime, they probably wouldn't shut you down if your prepaid hits zero.

I use a prepaid for my Kindle purchases and Amazon processes the order even if the payment gets rejected, following up with increasingly insistent reminder emails.

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Re:How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012) by leni536 on Thursday September 24, 2015 @07:44AM (#10271045)

Yeah, that's what I thought. I wonder why Amazon doesn't support some form of prepaid service. I feel that it's really a deal-braker for me for buying s3, these kind of horror stories scare me away.

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