Amazon are all horrible bastards.

Posted in Life, Literature, Web on February 27th, 2009 by Charlie

So Amazon Prime are the culprits of my overdraft woes. What kind of business practise is one which signs you up automatically to Amazon Prime after offering you a free delivery.
It wouldn’t be such a problem except for the fact my account was empty, to which a charge of £70 on top of the original £45 they charged me.
Lucky my dad decided to pay off the original charge of £45 so they stopped adding shit to my overdraft fee, otherwise I would have truly been up shit creak.

So I’ve been on the phone with Amazon, and they are going to refund all the money, which is fair enough.
This has been such a pain.

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Twice in one evening, because I am so pissed.

Posted in Life, Literature, Technology on February 26th, 2009 by Charlie

Okay, so recently I noticed I couldn’t access the Microsoft website. I thought it was downtime, so I left it a day, still wasn’t working did some googling and there was nothing about ms.com being down.
That was when it clicked that I could be a virus, Avast.com was down, AVG.com was down. Kapersky.com was down. So I had to get the newest versions of AVG and Ad-Aware from Download.com
After struggling to find this virus, having Firefox crash every time I googled any relevent subject Ad-Aware found something, removed it, and out of no where AVG appeared to remove the rest of the infection.

Now, today I’ve received an email saying that I’m £45 overdrawn, and because I don’t have an overdraft they are going to charge me £15 per day, and then £15 per month until I pay up. However, to my knowledge I’ve not used my debit card for at least 2 weeks, and apparently I tried to make “a series of purchases” on the 24th of February. I’m going down to the bank tomorrow to try and sort this mess out, hopefully these assholes don’t end up making me pay for this shit.

And to think I was happy when I got in today.

I forgot to mention that I think these two things are related.

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