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Zipcar will charge your credit card for no reason

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Re: Zipcar will charge your credit card for no reason

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Next time your on the phone trying to get it resolved, ask them for their "corporate address for legal correspondence" in order to file your small claims suit. They will resist giving it to you, likely by telling you "it's online on their website". or they will send you to a "contact us" page on their website that doesn't display their corporate address. This is when you know you are winning. They may still not resol…

If you do this, be prepared for the company to call your bluff. Many places have a policy that invoking legal is a one way street, and once you’ve threatened to sue they will give you the contact details for legal and then refuse to speak to you through normal customer service channels for any reason. You’re now stuck dealing with the people who’s job it is to mitigate risk, and not those who’s job it is to keep cust…

I have yet to call into a customer service department "who's job it is to keep customers happy".

The only time that has been my experience was with companies that were in a growth phase of early existence.

Also, I assume you are calling in with legit reason - so my point is exactly that the "risk team" will start taking appropriate action, ya know, to mitigate their risk. Indeed if you are calling to blow smoke up the company's ass in order to get something for free, you will have a bad time.

Re: Zipcar will charge your credit card for no reason

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Based on all the comments here, Im confident this is Zipcar's fault and not the OP. However, I have had some experience being on the other end of this type of billing problem (not at zipcar) so I'll share my experience.

Several times I have received an email from someone saying that my website charged their card incorrectly. In each case the amount charged has been an amount that is impossible based on what I sell (my product is $10, but they are billed for $17.23). I attempt to lookup the transaction in my Stripe dashboard using the date, amount, and last 4 digits. Nothing. I have to reply with something similar to what OP got back from support. In every case where I received a followup with the customer, they had misread the credit card statement and it was for a totally different company's charge. I guess there was a company with a similar name. Sometimes customers get quite irate, but they never apologize when they realize it was their fault.

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