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Slick · 01-18-2003, 04:33 PM

I'm pissed off at that place. I went out and pre-ordered the Geforce FX video card on their site, which isn't coming out until March. It says on their site that "Your account won't be charged until the item ships". Well, I used my Visa debit card for the order and figured when March comes, I'll be sure to have the money in there.

Well, today, I was checking on my checking account balance and it said that there was a $423 charge on my account. I thought "What the fuck is going on". Come to find out after I realized it, it was BestBuy.com that made the charge on my account, even though they said that I wouldn't be charged until the card shipped in MARCH.

I called them up and bitched at them, seeing what was going on and they said that they didn't charge my account, they "Pre-qualified" my account, meaning that they put a hold on that money, claiming it for themselves, so in other words, they charged me for it in advance

I don't see why the fuck they do that, it's stupid, ESPECIALLY since they don't mention it on their site. What's the sense ? If the card comes out and I don't have the funds in my account at that time, I'm out of the card, they don't lose anything, just send the card to the next guy on the list, talk about stupid.

01-18-2003, 04:33 PM
Slick Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Houghton, MI Posts: 7,338	FUCK BestBuy.com !!!! I'm pissed off at that place. I went out and pre-ordered the Geforce FX video card on their site, which isn't coming out until March. It says on their site that "Your account won't be charged until the item ships". Well, I used my Visa debit card for the order and figured when March comes, I'll be sure to have the money in there. Well, today, I was checking on my checking account balance and it said that there was a $423 charge on my account. I thought "What the fuck is going on". Come to find out after I realized it, it was BestBuy.com that made the charge on my account, even though they said that I wouldn't be charged until the card shipped in MARCH. I called them up and bitched at them, seeing what was going on and they said that they didn't charge my account, they "Pre-qualified" my account, meaning that they put a hold on that money, claiming it for themselves, so in other words, they charged me for it in advance I don't see why the fuck they do that, it's stupid, ESPECIALLY since they don't mention it on their site. What's the sense ? If the card comes out and I don't have the funds in my account at that time, I'm out of the card, they don't lose anything, just send the card to the next guy on the list, talk about stupid.