They're just validating a credit card number; that was an authorization which won't be settled, almost certainly.
Royce Williams <ro...@techsolvency.com> wrote: >On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Kee Hinckley <naz...@marrowbones.com> >wrote: >> >> On Sep 4, 2013, at 9:47 PM, Leo Bicknell <bickn...@ufp.org> wrote: >> >>> >>> I've got to apologize publicly to Yahoo! here as part of my issue >was my own stupidity. It appears in the past I've had multiple Yahoo! >ID's and I was >> >> I, on the other hand, need someone from Yahoo! to contact me, because >I decided to test their "email wishlist" feature. Repeated attempts got >me nothing but a message saying that my credit card information was >incorrect. But when I checked my bill this morning, I have three fifty >cent charges against my account (one for each time I revalidated my >email address while attempting to use their form). There's no contact >page on http://wishlist.yahoo.com, despite the fact that it's an >ecommerce page that takes credit cards, and there's no apparent way to >contact a human from the main yahoo page. I can always ask my credit >card company to refuse the charges, but if Yahoo! is charging credit >cards and not providing services, I think someone there needs to know >there's a problem. Never mind taking credit card numbers and providing >no customer support. > >And it's not an isolated incident -- the exact same thing happened to >me last night as well. > >Royce -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.