Billed for 1 dollar?

In many online services (and gas stations), a transaction of one dollar is charged and then refunded, to ensure that the card used is genuine or has a balance of some sort on it.

If it is not refunded within the day, I would contact EA.

Answer your problem? Hit resolved!

I'll wait for a day before I consider it resolved. 😕mileytongue:

It's odd that the $1 charge worked even though I was unable to buy points for Citadel.

It's a preauthorization that will disappear at some point determined by your bank, EA has no control what-so-ever over how long it will be on your account.

Authorization hold

Alrighty, so there's still no return of the dollar on my card.  It's been 5 days.  This is a gift card and it's highly annoying that they did this while all I was trying to do was buy Bioware points.

So this wasn't a transaction with a bank.  This was EA pulling a dollar out of my credit gift card and not putting it right back.  How exactly does EA have not control over when EA puts it back?

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@Zerfidius wrote:

So this wasn't a transaction with a bank.  This was EA pulling a dollar out of my credit gift card and not putting it right back.  How exactly does EA have not control over when EA puts it back?

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Yes it IS still handled by a bank  (read the small print on the back of the card) and the amount of time the transaction remains is determined by that bank.

I have a gift card here...lets take a look at the back of the card...handled by Metabank. Now lets look at the Terms and Conditions of the Visa Gift Card I have...Authorization Holds last "for up to ten (10) days".

Did you ever recieve the money back??

I didn't receive my money BACK, I lost 5.50 CAD 

what should I do? the transaction falled and I lost my money?

I tried 5 times because It does'nt work and then I checked my bank account and I saw that I lost 5.50....