Re:Netflix stops charging customers who never watch
by kevinmchugh on Saturday May 23, 2020 @10:21AM
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There's a process for some card providers by which merchants can automatically update their card details for recurring purchases. Visa calls it Account Updater and at least Braintree has had support for it for over a decade.
Re:Netflix stops charging customers who never watch
by war1025 on Saturday May 23, 2020 @10:45AM
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Well that would be super convenient for me. At this point I'm just slowly transitioning to always using my checking account number directly for payment since that is stable.
Re:Netflix stops charging customers who never watch
by Tagbert on Saturday May 23, 2020 @10:13PM
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The risk with that is you have no ability to contest a charge. With a credit card, you can contest and the card issuer will do a chargeback to return the funds.
Re:Netflix stops charging customers who never watch
by hnick on Sunday May 24, 2020 @08:41AM
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Netflix US charged our new Citibank credit card at least 3 times based on a fraudulent purchase (somehow someone had made a Netflix account with our credit card number).
On top of that it wasn't even activated because we'd stopped using Citibank to simplify our accounting and just hadn't cancelled entirely yet. Backdoors exist apparently for recurring charges that roll over onto new cards for "customer convenience" because you wouldn't want to miss your bills and lose access to Netflix.
Re:Netflix stops charging customers who never watch
by perl4ever on Saturday May 23, 2020 @11:50AM
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In my (recent) experience, periodic charges are automatically applied to a new card, even if it has a new number. For your convenience, if you forgot to update your payment info...
I learned that you can request a replacement card with the same number, which I was initially very excited about. But when you get the new card it has a different expiration date, so it still needs to be updated most places.