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$1.00 EXTRA??

• alosso 21,094 Posts

  Sun, Sep 3 2017 10:27 PM

  JDGHOST:

  looking at my credit card online statement all i saw were six charges all paid to the WGT 3 in the amounts of my purchases and 3 individual 1.00 charges also saying the WGT???

  That's weird indeed - how should they be entitled to any additional charges?

• DonCaron 5,502 Posts

  Mon, Sep 4 2017 2:35 AM

  I just checked mine, and only the $28.00 for 2800 credits was taken.

• gonfission 2,268 Posts

  Mon, Sep 4 2017 5:22 AM

  borntobesting:

  maybe your credit card company is adding a small fee for smaller purchases. 

  Most likely ^^^

  Read your terms on your card. If it is a prepaid card, then it may very well charge you a fee for using it. Processing fee.

  If it is a standard card, then there may very well be a minimum charge threshold. You did not mention how many credits you purchased.

  One last possibility. If you are from outside the U.S. you may be charged an international usage fee. I had my card company drop that, as I travel to China. 3% international fee, adds up, quickly.

• JDGHOST 6,890 Posts

  Mon, Sep 4 2017 5:32 AM

  understood and you are correct each purchase was small 5.00 each but why would it show WGT as the payee? For both the $5 and the $1 dollar? And i am in the U.S

• SlicedPepper 796 Posts

  Mon, Sep 4 2017 2:15 PM

  I stopped using my credit card to buy credits. I use a Subway gift card now, reloadable, so when I buy whatever amount of credits I want that's all that is taken. And Subway doesn't charge for the card. You just pay whatever amount you want on the card.

• alosso 21,094 Posts

  Mon, Sep 4 2017 3:12 PM

  I use Zong ("buy mobile"). It charges via my phone bill and pays out about 25% more. In the US, you get 1,269 credits for 9.99 $ today.

• Buzzard86 413 Posts

  Tue, Sep 5 2017 7:58 AM

  Did you actually get charged the $1 or did it show up in the pending area of your credit card account? I get that $1 in my pending area for quite a few things and it turned out that it wasn't the vendor that applied the charge but the credit card company (with the vendor's name on it). I called one of the vendors to ask what it was all about and their billing department had no idea. Eventually all of them have come off.

• adaputter 1,954 Posts

  Tue, Sep 5 2017 2:22 PM

  alosso:

  JDGHOST:

  looking at my credit card online statement all i saw were six charges all paid to the WGT 3 in the amounts of my purchases and 3 individual 1.00 charges also saying the WGT???

  That's weird indeed - how should they be entitled to any additional charges?

  it is a transaction fee all credit and debit cards do it

  SET UP A PAYPAL ACCOUNT no charges

  sry about shouting

• alosso 21,094 Posts

  Tue, Sep 5 2017 10:08 PM

  adaputter:

  it is a transaction fee all credit and debit cards do it

  Not to me, but we don't have Wells Fargo over here <sg>

• fatdan 3,379 Posts

  Tue, Sep 5 2017 11:43 PM

  LMAO (shaking head)

  That is a "pre-authorization" charge because the credit card company authorizes the card before they  know the exact amount , no reason to do that here, but very common at gas stations with certain cards when they ok a card before you pump the gas...

  the money "never" comes out of your account and disappears in a few days(usually 1 or 2)

  Soooo, blame your card carrier not WGT, and do some research before you go off again!

  
  

  borntobesting:

  maybe your credit card company is adding a small fee for smaller purchases.

  
  

  If this was the case it would not show both charges as WGT