In article
<ed427b61-df13-43b6-a63e-b409ed299a9f@f31g2000pri.googlegroups.com>,
neithskye <jill_bookerGREENEGGSANDSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 7, 5:10 pm, Urbin <ur...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
> > It seems your CC company allows Blizzard to charge an expired card.
>
> Just out of curiosity, since I use pre-paid cards, do the monthly
> payments actually go through on an expired credit card? Seems weird to
> me, because who then is covering the charge?
>
> If it does go through for several months, and is later revealed to be
> an expired card, I'm wondering if the credit card company would be
> responsible to pay the charges or if the WoW user would suddenly find
> him/herself owing Blizzard several months' worth of monthly fees.
>
> --
> Jill
Do you (meaning everyone on this thread) mean the date on the card has
expired, or your CC account has expired?
Obviously, if the account has expired, Blizzard won't get paid and
you're done playing until you pay through another method. I would think
one billing cycle would be enough to flag your account as unpaid and
Blizz would stop you from logging in. Maybe if you've been playing for
years without interruption they may float your account for a while? Hard
to say.
If only the date stamped into the card has expired and the account is
still active, then Blizzard gets paid. Your CC company should have sent
you another card before that happens.
If Blizzard's records show that your card has expired but the account is
still good, they will keep billing you normally. But, back a while ago I
used my CC to update to WotLK. I had not updated my CC info to Blizzard
and the order did not go through. I had to call them to see what the
problem was. The lady on the phone told me my card had expired and all I
needed to do was update the info on my account. She told me also that as
long as there is no problem billing me regularly to play, they didn't
care if the card was expired as this was not a "new" transaction. It was
a while ago and I forgot how she phrased it, but it was something like
your subscription fee is a reoccurring transaction.
Buying the Wrath update was a new transaction and I had to update my
account info with the new expiration date on my CC. It was the same CC
account, same CC number as before, only the expiration date on the card
had changed.
I would guess that if you were paying through a CC and stopped to pay
with a pre-paid card, that would be a "new" transaction. To go back to
using a CC, this would be another new transaction. You would have to
have a CC that is not expired to continue.
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