TangoWhiskey
Touchdown! Greaser!
I have my AOPA membership set for auto-renewal. It renews each January... ever since we set that up, we get a small debit / credit each August from them... they'll just debit the account for a couple bucks ($2.16 or so), then credit it back. They just did it again last week.
Member Services says they are just validating that the card is still good prior to the automatic renewal debit in January, but I think that's horsepucky. They could just try to bill my card when it's DUE, and notify me if it fails...
None of my other automatic-renewal accounts with other organizations or companies do anything like this. Last year we let that account get a little low (it's for paying bills only) and their $2.62 debit took the account minus, bounced a REAL bill, and cost us an NSF fee on top of it. I just about came unglued!!
Now, they've debited my account TWICE (and credited it back, of course!) in the months preceeding my renewal in January 2008.
Has anybody else noticed this behavior? Does it annoy you?! If it does, what can we do to get them to STOP this non-standard practice?
Member Services says they are just validating that the card is still good prior to the automatic renewal debit in January, but I think that's horsepucky. They could just try to bill my card when it's DUE, and notify me if it fails...
None of my other automatic-renewal accounts with other organizations or companies do anything like this. Last year we let that account get a little low (it's for paying bills only) and their $2.62 debit took the account minus, bounced a REAL bill, and cost us an NSF fee on top of it. I just about came unglued!!
Now, they've debited my account TWICE (and credited it back, of course!) in the months preceeding my renewal in January 2008.
Has anybody else noticed this behavior? Does it annoy you?! If it does, what can we do to get them to STOP this non-standard practice?