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Credit Cards no longer accepted as online, nor automatic, payment. NOW FIXED.
Like last month, I go to make a manual online payment, like I have for the last twelve years, and over three years with the card I have, and again, it wouldn't go through. So, again, I cal...
Another success. I'm going to assume that this is completely fixed, so I'll "Solution" this thread.
Gabe, then I can certainly understand your reluctance! I now have every bill except my lot rent on auto pay. I realize I'm taking a risk and I monitor my bank account daily. So far, no glitches. It's just so convenient. But I am very low income, so any mistake like the one you mentioned, would potentially overdraft me, depending upon the time of month. Since I don't use credit cards and am very frugal, I don't have a ton of monthly bills, which helps. The one I tend to forget about is the garbage bill because they've gone to a system of only billing 3 times a year. Because of that, it's a fairly big bill, from my perspective, and I never remember what month it's coming until they email me about 2 days in advance. Other than that, it's car, insurance, electric, Hughesnet, Centurylink, and Amazon Prime, which I do monthly rather than annually.
I just took advantage of the Amazon Prime free trial last month, and on the 19th of this month it will convert to a paid service. If I don't cancel it beforehand, that is. If I do decide to keep it, it will be the first of my bills of any type that will be automatically paid. I've pondered changing to auto payments with DirecTV and taking advantage of the discount, but I've been hesitant for the same reasons mentioned in my previous post on here. Still, I may do so. My folks use auto payment for everything, and they've had no issues, or at least not that they've told me, which they almost assuredly would have had it happened.
I'm still debating on whether to keep Prime. I haven't paid for shipping on an Amazon order in years, and, to be honest, I can't remember the last time I did. I always make sure that my orders are at least $35 so that I can get free 8-10 day ground shipping. Granted, I won't be saving any money in the long run with Prime, but it will be nice to not only have 2 day shipping (though that's debatable), but also not be required to reach the $35 level for the free 8-10 day ground shipping. I say the 2 day shipping is debatable as the order I placed for the Raspberry Pi Zero W at 1:30AM on Tuesday morning may not be delivered until Monday. I know there's a holiday in the mix and weekends don't count, but Monday? It should be Friday. It even shipped yesterday, just after noon, so there is absolutely no reason it shouldn't get here tomorrow. And, at this point, it's only about 250 miles from here, so if it doesn't come tomorrow I will not be a happy camper, that's for sure.
Amazon says tomorrow by 8:00PM. UPS says Monday by "End of Day." Time will tell. If it's Monday, Amazon will be receiving a call from me.
I've used Prime for several years and have been very satisfied with it. I've never had an issue with the yearly payment either.
