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OT Why would anyone use Auto-Reload for Amazon "gift cards".
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micky
Oct 14, 2023, 12:16:54 PM10/14/23
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OT Why would anyone use Auto-Reload for Amazon "gift cards".
YOu can set it to reload with any amount you want (they fill in the
field with $50.) monthly, every two weeks, weekly, or daily, or when the
balance drops below any number you set. It charges your debit or credit
card.
Why would any sensible person do that, when that same card will pay for
your purchase when you make it? In fact they don't bill you until it
ships, so you have the money until then, instead of Amazon having it.
If you don't buy anything, maybe your sick in bed, in the hospital, in a
coma, with the periodic option your balance keeps increasing. If you
die, are they going to know that and send your money back? It could be
hundreds or thousands of dollars. In fact, how long does it take from
when you die until your credit/debit card company stops honoring
pre-authorized withdrawals? Is it automatic, or does your executor have
to tell them to stop? Are your heirs going to think to check your
Amazon account to get the unspent money back? How many forms will your
executor have to fill out to get the money?
And why do this at all?
Is Amazon a cult?
YOu can set it to reload with any amount you want (they fill in the
field with $50.) monthly, every two weeks, weekly, or daily, or when the
balance drops below any number you set. It charges your debit or credit
card.
Why would any sensible person do that, when that same card will pay for
your purchase when you make it? In fact they don't bill you until it
ships, so you have the money until then, instead of Amazon having it.
If you don't buy anything, maybe your sick in bed, in the hospital, in a
coma, with the periodic option your balance keeps increasing. If you
die, are they going to know that and send your money back? It could be
hundreds or thousands of dollars. In fact, how long does it take from
when you die until your credit/debit card company stops honoring
pre-authorized withdrawals? Is it automatic, or does your executor have
to tell them to stop? Are your heirs going to think to check your
Amazon account to get the unspent money back? How many forms will your
executor have to fill out to get the money?
And why do this at all?
Is Amazon a cult?
Ed P
Oct 14, 2023, 12:37:42 PM10/14/23
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want to give them spending money. More control than a credit card with a
high limit. Aside from that, I can't image a reason.
rbowman
Oct 14, 2023, 2:25:47 PM10/14/23
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On Sat, 14 Oct 2023 12:37:34 -0400, Ed P wrote:
> If you have a kid away at school it would make some sense, assuming you
> want to give them spending money. More control than a credit card with a
> high limit. Aside from that, I can't image a reason.
You can put money in a prisoner's account. I wonder if the prison system
> If you have a kid away at school it would make some sense, assuming you
> want to give them spending money. More control than a credit card with a
> high limit. Aside from that, I can't image a reason.
has made it to the 21st century and accepts gift cards?
Mark Lloyd
Oct 14, 2023, 2:42:53 PM10/14/23
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On 10/14/23 11:16, micky wrote:
> OT Why would anyone use Auto-Reload for Amazon "gift cards".
>
> YOu can set it to reload with any amount you want (they fill in the
> field with $50.) monthly, every two weeks, weekly, or daily, or when the
> balance drops below any number you set. It charges your debit or credit
> card.
I use Amazon gift cards because the grocery store I buy them from gives
> OT Why would anyone use Auto-Reload for Amazon "gift cards".
>
> YOu can set it to reload with any amount you want (they fill in the
> field with $50.) monthly, every two weeks, weekly, or daily, or when the
> balance drops below any number you set. It charges your debit or credit
> card.
a discount on fuel for buying them. I see no benefit to Amazon reloading
a card.
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micky
Oct 14, 2023, 3:23:53 PM10/14/23
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In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 14 Oct 2023 12:37:34 -0400, Ed P
At least you found one good one.
I can't remember what I did for money in college. Food and board was
paid in big chunks in advance and I didn't need much spending money but
I did spend some. The bookstore, I bought a bicycle at the police
bicycle auction. There were almost no credit cards then.
I can't remember what I did for money in college. Food and board was
paid in big chunks in advance and I didn't need much spending money but
I did spend some. The bookstore, I bought a bicycle at the police
bicycle auction. There were almost no credit cards then.
Peeler
Oct 14, 2023, 3:50:13 PM10/14/23
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On 14 Oct 2023 18:25:39 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
> You can put money in a prisoner's account. I wonder if the prison system
> has made it to the 21st century and accepts gift cards?
If YOU don't know, nobody else possibly knows, gossip girl.
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MID: <ka2vrl...@mid.individual.net>
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
> You can put money in a prisoner's account. I wonder if the prison system
> has made it to the 21st century and accepts gift cards?
--
And yet another idiotic "cool" line, this time about the UK, from the
resident bigmouthed all-American superhero:
"You could dump the entire 93,628 square miles in eastern Montana and only
the prairie dogs would notice."
MID: <ka2vrl...@mid.individual.net>
Bob F
Oct 14, 2023, 4:33:07 PM10/14/23
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Having a card for online purchases that does not give access to large
amounts of money to fraudsters?
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