Curious to see what the trends are

  • dingus@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I had only ever purchased cheapo phones. Decided I wanted to splurge with a flagship at the local Best Buy and got a hard stop from my bank who wanted to verify it wasn’t a fraudulent charge. I wasn’t being ripped off. It was the normal price of the phone. I splurged on some new tech lol.

    Funny thing is after giving up on that route, I made the purchase for the exact same amount on Amazon instead and it went through no problem lol.

    • Jumi@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Damn, your bank seems to have an awful lot of control over your bank account.

      I bought my S10 for 350€ on Amazon when it was on sale. Might have even been my last buy from Amazon

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        8 months ago

        It’s really not that deep. It was a charge of $1000 from a retailer I don’t normally purchase from. That’s not a regular occurrence. The only other time I had my bank ask me for verification was when I was withdrawing a large amount of cash from an ATM, which I also don’t normally do.

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          8 months ago

          I see, I just never heard of that before. After looking it up I saw that I could transfer 100 000€ without my bank saying anything.